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Can wounds make us more whole? Hope so. An exhaustive account of the IHOP-KC mess is in vain unless we allow its findings to change us....

‘As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, O...

“We must understand the term ‘helpmate’ in its most basic meaning. Woman was given to man so that he can understand himself, and...

We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

‘We cannot separate the masculine and the feminine from God’s work of creation, which is prior to all our decisions and experiences, and...

Homosexuality is symptomatic of a wound. Whenever I experience same-sex attraction, I connect with a wound related to masculine...

“Who are you…what do you have to say for yourself? ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness…’” (Jn. 1:22-23). Advent pops our...

Guidance and Goals #1 “The moral life as John Paul II understood it is a drama: a drama lived in the gap between the person I am and the...

October 11th-November 19th, 2023 ‘I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to Him’ (2 Cor....

Previously published in Desert Stream’s 2023 Mid-Year Report Jesus heals the sexually disintegrated. I know this because He healed me of...

‘Freedom consists not in doing what we like but in having the right to do what we ought.’ -St. John Paul II After a couple weeks of...

After I spoke to one of my children about why I take pains (and risk causing pain) to not use LGBTQ+ language in defining people, I wrote...

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...

‘When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home’ (Mt 1:24). I write this in sheer...

‘If you don’t stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all’ (Is. 7:9). Christian, never apologize for upholding persons in their...

John Wimber called it ‘doing the stuff’; Karol Wojtyla heralded ‘the law of the gift.’ Launching the gift of our Spirited humanity sets...

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

“What Christ demands of His listeners in the Sermon on the Mount belongs to that space in which man must rediscover the lost fullness of...

‘For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His...

‘Christ’s mission as Priest, Prophet-teacher and King continues in the Church. Everyone, the whole People of God, shares in this...