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March 2015

March 28, 2015

How to Not Become a Catholic, A Convert’s Guide

As a Protestant convert to Catholicism whose journey culminates a week from today, at the...

March 26, 2015

How First Confession Blew My Mind

I'm convinced, utterly, that confession is the single greatest gift God gave this weary world....

March 19, 2015

What I Wish I’d Known About Catholics (And Why I’m Becoming One Now That I Do)

This Easter I become a Catholic. It's been a strange, unexpected journey. Something I often...

March 17, 2015

How God Gives Us Grace Through Man

We need to make an honest examination of our beliefs. We need to, prayerfully, come...

March 14, 2015

Why Creflo Dollar Made Me a Catholic

Prosperity Gospel Mega-Church Pastor Creflo Dollar is in the news again. This time it's for...

March 10, 2015

The Search for Truth: Thoughts on Rachel Held Evans

I do not know Rachel Held Evans apart from the fact that she wrote A...

March 06, 2015

Why Are Demons So Afraid of Mary?

Father Gabriele Amorth is a fascinating man. Until very recently, the elderly Italian priest served...

March 02, 2015

The Rock in Shifting Seas: Why the Catholic Church Appeals to a Protestant Like Me

I've always said the last thing that I want to do is to put down my...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

On Lent and Letting Go of Grudges

I've held a grudge for a long time, I'm not proud to say. I'm not...

February 20, 2015

How God Works: Making Sense of the Sacramental Life

The Catholic life is a sacramental life. The means, at its core, that Catholicism teaches that God's...

February 17, 2015

Lent: My Final Forty Days as a Protestant

This year my Lenten experience is going to be weird. At Easter, baring supernatural intervention,...

February 12, 2015

Why I Stopped Debating and Started Living Like a Catholic

It was a friend from elementary school, a guy I hadn't seen in some fifteen...

February 10, 2015

How Learning About Mary’s Miracles Blew My Mind

Satan cannot drive out Satan. A house, or a kingdom, cannot be divided against itself....

February 09, 2015

The Amnesiac Church and the Modern Heresy

I've written before about digging deep into Church history and the sort of dangerous pursuit...

February 07, 2015

Let’s Talk About Mary, Mother of God

It goes nearly without saying that the prime objection of the Protestant to Catholicism is...

February 03, 2015

The Physical, Tangible Catholic Church

When I originally set out on this journey from Protestantism to Catholicism I didn't know...

February 01, 2015

The Lord’s Supper, Literally

Since digging deeper into Catholic theology it's become clear to me that, for those who swear...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

What I Learned From a Tired Priest

I've written recently about how the setbacks and difficulties I've experienced while becoming Catholic have...

January 26, 2015

A New Way of Thinking

Somewhere along the way I picked up this quote by Henri Nouwen and, lately, it's...

January 22, 2015

Let’s Talk About Prima Scriptura

I've written a lot about sola scriptura, the Reformation belief that Scripture---the Bible---is the ultimate authority...

January 21, 2015

Jesus, Divine and Human: A Juxtaposition

I have a story to tell. Unlike most stories we tell I don't think this...

January 19, 2015

On The Vicar of Christ

I've been following the Pope for some time now, beginning around the election of Pope...

January 15, 2015

Where Else Can I Go? Becoming a Catholic, Or Not.

Ask my wife, I'm not always altogether emotionally stable. It's no secret. Sometimes I get...

January 10, 2015

Are Catholics Less Devout than Protestants?

I'm gonna say a swear. I have to warn you. That's the cordial thing to do. It...

January 09, 2015

The Truth is a Trap

The truth is a trap. I've recently devoured G.K. Chesterton's The Catholic Church and Conversion....

January 07, 2015

Christmas for Catholics (as a Protestant)

I never, for even a second, want to diminish my spiritual journey as a Protestant....

January 06, 2015

What Divides Us: Ecumenical Lessons from The Hobbit

As I've been making my way towards the Catholic Church I've thought a lot about...

January 04, 2015

New Year’s Journey

There are times when I approach this monstrous topic, and this tiny blog, when I...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

N.T. Wright and the Catholic Church as a Postman

I'm reading N.T. Wright's Scripture and the Authority of God because, up until a few moments...

December 29, 2014

The Common Thread of Conversion

As a Protestant fully on his way to a Catholic conversion one of chief sources...

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