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Blazing Heart
Today marks both the final day of Pride month and the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Celebrating life under the ‘rainbow’...
Katie Comiskey
Jun 30, 20232 min read
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Language of Love: A Letter to My Kids
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...
Andrew Comiskey
Jun 13, 20233 min read
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Dignity in Diapers?
Pope Francis’ poor word choice in describing the Church’s catechism on sexuality as ‘still in diapers’ (‘The Pope: Answers’, Hulu) can’t...
Andrew Comiskey
May 1, 20233 min read
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Merciful Solution for the Trans-Wounded
Like you, I cannot fathom Biden’s declaration last month that the transgendered ‘shape America’s soul.’ Young people violating themselves...
Andrew Comiskey
Apr 17, 20232 min read
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Crossing the Threshold: Advent of Integration 4
‘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...
Marco Casanova
Dec 19, 20222 min read
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Joyful Generation: Advent of Integration 3
‘Perhaps what we modern people most need is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and...
Andrew Comiskey
Dec 12, 20223 min read
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Dignify and Deploy 35: A Way in the Wilderness
‘Theology of the Body constitutes a kind of timebomb set to go off in the third millennium of the Church...it may well be seen as a...
Andrew Comiskey
Nov 17, 20223 min read
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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...
Andrew Comiskey
Nov 7, 20223 min read
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Dignify and Deploy 1: Two Fathers Who Changed the Face of Christianity
My friend Mark engages regularly with Kim, a cancer-stricken cousin. As the only Christian in the family, he prays sensitively yet firmly...
Andrew Comiskey
Oct 14, 20222 min read
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Impoverished Care, Part II
By Marco Casanova and Andrew Comiskey Review of ‘Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure...
Andrew Comiskey
Jun 27, 20223 min read
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Optical Illusion
Building A Bridge film review How you tell a story can cover a multitude of sins. Watching Amazon’s documentary on a-not-very-good-book...
Andrew Comiskey
May 9, 20223 min read
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Day 30: Freedom to Confess
By Morgan Davis Desert Stream Ministries Board Member ‘I realize I don’t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide...
Guest Author
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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Day 23: Deliverance from Evil
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
Andrew Comiskey
Nov 4, 20213 min read
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Day 7: Incarnation--Hinge of Wholeness
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
Marco Casanova
Oct 19, 20212 min read
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Close the Gap
‘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’...
Andrew Comiskey
Oct 11, 20212 min read
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Village People
Venturing to wholeness takes a village. We surrender to Jesus but stumble in route until we find walking partners who help us fix on...
Andrew Comiskey
May 10, 20212 min read
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How Deep Your Cross?
‘The rain came down, the stream rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house; yet it did not fall, because it was founded on the...
Andrew Comiskey
Apr 2, 20213 min read
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Trapped
‘Our commitment on issues of human sexuality [and every other area] are guided by Christ’s commandment to love and to stand in solidarity...
Andrew Comiskey
Feb 1, 20212 min read
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Desert Streaming
Hey, join me and Marco Casanova for our podcast, Desert Streaming. (Clever, eh? My daughter Katie came up with it.) We go live next...
Andrew Comiskey
Nov 25, 20202 min read
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Asexual Slump or Marvelous Desire? Day 39
‘To begin with: for Thomas Aquinas it is plainly self-evident--indeed so self-evident that it need hardly be mentioned even to those but...
Andrew Comiskey
Nov 21, 20204 min read
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