by Shaun McAfee
Grief is something everyone handles differently, therefore it makes sense that there isn’t a one size fits all to supporting friends and family who have lost a baby. Especially if we have never experienced this type of loss, we can find ourself lumped into the...
by Ryan Mayer
World Youth Day 2016 in Krakow, Poland just concluded.  An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims attended the closing mass with Pope Francis.  I’ve had the gift of attending three World Youth day celebrations—Paris ’97, Rome 2000, and as a volunteer in Cologne in 2005. The...
by Brooke Gregory
Unless you’ve been on retreat this summer, you’ve probably been witness to roving packs of people of all ages with their phones out, searching for Pikachus and Charmanders in parks, vacant lots, and even busy intersections. They’re all playing the...
by Matt Vander Vennet
If we don’t know where we came from and who went before us, we feel lost and end up seemingly drifting in the wind wherever it takes us. We need a foundation, on a “Rock”, or at least on a steady barque, in order to make it through the storms of the...
by Chloe Langr
1. A devotion to the Hail Mary prayer can be traced to the 1100s. Abbot Baldwin, the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1184 wrote about a devotion to the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer and said, “To this salutation of the Angel, by which we daily greet the most...
by Brooke Gregory
Pokemon has been around for a long while, and like any cultural phenomenon, has attracted its share of ire from religious groups ranging from the Westboro Baptist Church to popular evangelical broadcasters. However, back in the franchise’s initial heyday in the...
