1. Leave the house looking like a disaster victim You secretly watched other mothers with unkept hair and tired eyes and thought, “A little makeup would help. A shower, maybe?” That was before you were a mother. Now you show up at a Starbucks date with your best friend and...
Often I substitute other words in conversation in place of “Jesus” because I fear what comes with the territory. How about you? “God,” “Church,” “Faith”? Easy. They roll off the tongue. They keep the conversation going. “Jesus”? Hard. Like Flappy Bird hard. When it’s time to fill in the...
One of the things I’ve found most refreshing about Catholic culture is the understanding of the importance of modesty. Though each woman may have different ideas about exactly what it means to be modest, there is a general agreement that putting forth some level of conscious effort to avoid...
If only he had shaved that morning. Basilios Bessarion grew up in an Eastern Orthodox community in present-day Turkey in the early 15th century. He become a monk, then an abbot, and was eventually appointed to be a metropolitan bishop by the Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaeologus, with whom he...
When Frodo was flying the eagle back home at the end of Return of the King, did you wonder why Frodo didn’t just use an eagle to fly the ring to Mordor in the first place? If so, you’re not alone: But now someone has the answer why...
If you don’t have a garden, you’re really missing out. Gardening can be a blast! Here are ten reasons every Christians should consider giving it a chance: 1) Jesus talked about plants all the time. The Bible is full of agricultural metaphors. We get parables about sowers of...
