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Ania and I bonded over our mutual affection for the whole Body of Christ, in our case, the Catholic Church. Why? The Church was healing...

‘Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.’ Thomas Aquinas Remarkable. Tragic. IHOPKC is...

‘Knowing the love that surpasses knowledge may well mean not knowing much else’ (Loretta Ross-Gotta). God often overshadows the faithful...

I’m grateful, even joyful about changes going on at IHOP. Aquinas said joy was a state of well-being based on reality. Let’s get real....

Contending for Justice ‘In the darkness of the unexpressed, sin poisons the whole of a man.’ - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Give me a bold sinner...

Smashing the Serpent #1 ‘If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious men are...

Leveraging Church Hypocrisy #2 ‘God loves you, He made you gay, the pope loves you, and you must love yourself.’ - Pope Francis to ‘gay’...

Conquering Ourselves for Her ‘We are deceived to think that it is possible to become a human being without conquering oneself, without...

Dying for Love ‘The law of prayer is the law of belief.’- Medieval axiom We believe therefore we pray. We believe in the Church therefore...

‘In this desolation we find Jesus, triumphant over death and shockingly alive, present to us in ways we can’t understand, much less...

Dear Pope Francis, We enter Holy Week fixed on Jesus. His wounds are magnetic to us, the wounded. I am grateful for your exhortation to...

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...

‘The great choice posed to the human person in the modern world: deciding between sanctity and the loss of one’s humanity.’ (Witness to...

‘How, Wojtyla asks, can men and women become responsible lovers, so that our sexual love embodies a genuine freedom?... I cannot achieve...

‘Jesus testifies that the mystery of creation becomes the power of the mystery of redemption’ (Theology of the Body 46:5). John Wimber...

Winnowing wheat from chaff in service of persons pursuing wholeness Check out this worthy 'rerun' blog from April 2021! Andrew responds...

‘You see the trouble we are in…in ruins, our gates burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall…and we will no longer be in disgrace’...

Winnowing wheat from chaff in service of persons pursuing wholeness Clarify terms and set realistic expectations. Jesus grants us...

‘Why complain when you can act?’ Elizabeth Lesoeur Annette agreed to teach ‘Offering the Gift’ alongside me at Living Waters last week—no...