Andrew Comiskey
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Guides
Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for fathering us generously. You eschew formalities, which invites us to pour out contradictions—desires in...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 6, 20233 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Confirms
Dear Pope Francis, You exemplify a father who draws near to sons and daughters to dignify them. You encourage us to aspire to more, to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 25, 20233 min read
Beachhead: Review of Jesus Revolution
Something sweet and true runs through this film about hippies ‘getting saved’ in Woodstock-era Southern California. (I caught the...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 20, 20232 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Listens
Pope Francis, Forgive my mild resistance to the ‘synod on synodality.’ The name itself tempts me to revert to evangelicalism; I resist. I...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 13, 20232 min read
Open Letter to Pope Francis
Dear Pope Francis, I write this as one father to another. We share a deep love for Jesus and Church. I honor your weighty fatherhood as...
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Abigail Foard
Feb 6, 20232 min read
Wounds that Heal
During a recent prayer meeting, Andrew prayed for a hurting friend: ‘May what seems traumatizing now become a path for deeper healing.’...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jan 23, 20233 min read
The Prophet Pastors: How Truth Transfigures the Tender Care of Persons
‘The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds…it needs nearness, proximity. I see the Church as a field hospital...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jan 8, 20233 min read
Epiphany of Benedict XVI
If Epiphany means to make something clear, then late great Pope Benedict is the Feast’s exemplar. ‘Stand firm in the faith! Don’t let...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 21, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 39: Kingdom for All
“’Pray for my ministry, John.’ ‘Nah, I’ll just ask Jesus to give you a share in His.’” John Wimber We just finished a year of renewal...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 20, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 38: Blind Spots
‘Now we see through a glass darkly…’ (I Cor. 13:12) Blame it on too much pressure. Too many important decisions that impact thousands of...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 19, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 37: Clear, Merciful Sight
‘Humanity is going through a remarkably fluid period of history…a time of collapsing values and ideologies in which he who wishes to go...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 16, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 34: Living the Cross
‘Suffering is one of those points in which man in a certain sense is destined to go beyond himself.’ St. John Paul II ‘I resolved to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 15, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 33: Buoyant, Broken
‘We have firmly hoped, we will always hope, and we are and will be happy.’ Karol Wojtyla Bearing the weight of a billion person Church in...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 14, 20222 min read
Dignify and Deploy 32: Sing a Simple Song
‘We are going to sing to God, not about Him.’ Carol Wimber Annette and I are Vineyard worshippers, through and through. From the start of...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 13, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 31: Personalizing Pentecost
‘The true self isn’t found when we are looking for it; it’s found when we are looking for Him.’ C.S. Lewis The dream disturbed me at...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 12, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 30: Open Heaven
‘We met John in the restaurant parking lot after the Sunday night healing service at Vineyard Anaheim. Everyone was exhausted. I was with...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 11, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 29: Fruitful Fathers
St. John Paul II rallied more men to the priesthood than any pope in modern history. Everywhere I go in the Catholic world I witness...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 9, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 27: Restoring Woman’s Dignity
‘He suffused me without difficulty, burst my shame and the thoughts I’d suppressed… As if He had touched a rhythm in my temples and...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 8, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 26: Hopeful Realists
‘The great choice posed to the human person in the modern world: deciding between sanctity and the loss of one’s humanity.’ (Witness to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 7, 20223 min read
Dignify and Deploy 25: Humanizing Sexual Wholeness
‘How, Wojtyla asks, can men and women become responsible lovers, so that our sexual love embodies a genuine freedom?... I cannot achieve...
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