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I really don’t like thinking about death, but I think about it a lot. It is brought to the forefront of my thoughts by tragic events...

In the fall of 1995, I traveled to Italy to study for the semester at the University of Dallas Rome campus, located just outside of Rome...

When I taught English in China, we were in a filthy, rat-infested village, crawling with giant cockroaches and shrouded in a pervasive...

As a child, I created a notebook with color-coded pages on which I had done drawings of each outfit I owned to accompany my color-coded...

When I was a graduate student in literature, I came across two books that had a formative effect on my philosophy of education: John...

On my journey into the Catholic Church, Mary was a real problem for me for a while. Even after I realized that Catholics do not worship...

This coming Sunday is Thomas Sunday. I have always liked this Apostle, as I really relate to him, at least as far as struggling with...

I love Easter so much that it is hard to write about it. I cry thinking about it. It is the most full of true joy, the most expressive of...

Flowery (Palm) Sunday began to be celebrated in Constantinople by the fifth century - a couple centuries after it began in Jerusalem and...

I remember listening in amazement in high school chapel at my Christian school as various guest speakers told of dramatic conversions...

When I was younger I did not want the mess, the noise, the chaos, or the financial burden of children. And I was under the impression...

I have often heard or seen Dostoevsky quoted, “Beauty will save the world.” It is attributed to him as if it were his personal...

Several years ago, after very emotional struggles with infertility and two heartbreaking miscarriages, we began our first adoption. It...

In our family, we have four very intense children, two adopted with trauma histories, one with secondary trauma, one with a missing...

I have a hard time relating to the saints who knew they were going to be nuns from the time they were six - those saints who wanted to do...

The feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple (2 February) is one of the Twelve Major Feast Days in the Eastern Church, also...

Two intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...

I love this quiet, mid-week feast day celebrating Christ's rising up to Heaven in His resurrected body. He leaves us with the commission...

St. George is a popular saint, renowned for slaying a dragon and saving a princess. He is venerated as a vanquisher of evil and knight of...

The first time I met Babushka, my friend Ira’s 76 year old grandmother, she appeared as a tiny speck in a row boat across the water. As...