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December 2014

December 22, 2014

How Learning About the Rosary Blew My Mind

For all good Protestants, myself included, Mary is the ultimate stumbling block on a journey...

December 21, 2014

When the Priest Does the Dishes

At the end of the Liturgy of the Eucharist, the Lord's Supper, the Priest does...

December 20, 2014

A Protestant Deep in History

In my day job I'm a Kindergarten teacher. I hang out with 3 and 4-year...

December 16, 2014

Papal Infallibility and Why Some Popes are Evil

The idea of papal infallibility is something that I've come to understand is widely misunderstood...

December 15, 2014

The Catholic as Pharisee

So I sat down to write something entirely different but then I read Pope Francis's...

December 14, 2014

Why I Love the Pope (and You Can Too!)

It shouldn't come as a surprise to you to learn that I love the Pope....

December 11, 2014

A Fish in Water

There is a danger in the draw of authority. There is a deep danger is...

December 06, 2014

Why I Spent My Lunch Hour Worshipping a Cracker

OK, I'm being facetious, I admit it. I snuck out today, on my forty-minute lunch...

December 02, 2014

The Church is Universal, And It’s Not

As a Protestant converting to Catholicism the idea that the Catholic Church is universal has enormous...

December 01, 2014

What Sucks About the Catholic Church

Some days I don't want to be a Catholic anymore. Some days I'm not even...

November 2014

November 29, 2014

The Problem of Plain Sense

I have very good, charitable, and patient friends. I learned this, again, this week past...

November 28, 2014

How Learning About the Eucharist Blew My Mind

As I've been headed down this journey towards becoming a Catholic there have been lots...

November 25, 2014

The Rhythm of the Saints

So I've been writing about my conversion experience and what's been drawing me in to...

November 19, 2014

A System Designed to Fail

If you've been reading my conversion story from the beginning you'll know that my journey...

November 18, 2014

“It’s All Bosh, Except the Scrolls.”

David Ahlquist is the brother-in-law of the late, great Larry Norman---arguably one of God's greatest...

November 17, 2014

Being “Fair” to the Catholic Church

I'm on a G.K. Chesterton kick today. Chesterton, a Catholic convert from Anglicanism (and an...

November 16, 2014

The Collapse of Catholic Misconceptions

I was talking to a friend yesterday when I came to realize, from hearing someone...

November 10, 2014

What I Learned at Mass After I Learned About Mass

I wrote last time about attending Mass for the third time and how I experienced...

November 09, 2014

My Third Time to Mass

I'm taking a break from writing about my conversion experience to write about my experience today....

November 04, 2014

A Thesis on Tradition

Pastor Dan had dropped a bomb, and left. He'd asked me, "What's more important the...

November 01, 2014

The Bible and Tradition

We saw a production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Stratford Festival a few...

October 2014

October 25, 2014

My Three Catholic Friends

Having spent some quality time with my Dutch Catholic priest Catholicism had, like I said,...

October 22, 2014

A Podcasting Priest

My first exposure to Catholicism came in the form of a podcast. It was, I...

October 22, 2014

Finding a Community

Over the past few months and years I've read a number of stories of Protestants...

October 21, 2014

Pentecostal and Non-Denominational

University, or college, is an incredibly formative time of life. In university you form friendships and make decisions...

October 17, 2014

The Slow Road to Rome

We were actually at the Vatican last year, in August. After a family cruise around the...

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