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February 2023

February 03, 2023

The Incoherent World of Wednesday

For a while during my misspent youth, I was a regular viewer of The Addams...

November 2022

November 14, 2022

Catch Me Tonight on The Journey Home!

Update: Here’s the episode link! Just learned this morning that my episode of The Journey Home airs...

August 2022

August 10, 2022

July-August Updates + Follow-up on that Dorm Story

Been awhile, huh? Sheesh, Jen. Okay, here's what's been going on since I last updated...

February 2022

February 09, 2022

Where Well-Behaved Jen Fitz is Writing This Year

If you want to understand the thing I'm about to announce, consider reading Simcha Fisher's...

January 2021

January 16, 2021

One Weird Trick for Loving Your Extended Enemy-Family

Two different conversations on-topic with this coming weekend's conference* converged on this morning's readings. The...

January 08, 2021

Allowing Jesus to Heal Your Rhetorical Disease

This morning after half a cup of coffee, what I wanted to write was a...

January 06, 2021

Is Your Debate Style Passionate or . . . Poisoned?

Later this month, I am co-hosting a small, pro-bono conference-retreat for Catholic communicators -- professional...

December 2020

December 15, 2020

When you’re ready to change, Jesus is ready to heal you — Catholic pundit edition

This morning's Gospel is the perfect text for conference-retreat I'm co-hosting in a month-and-change from...

July 2020

July 01, 2020

Speaking of Clerical Corruption . . .

Church Militant is not my usual haunt, but they deserve credit for publicizing the case...

June 2020

June 29, 2020

My New Book has Launched! Woohoo! (+Free intro course, tell your friends!)

The kindle edition was available ahead of the official launch date, but I'm pleased to...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

Read Here Much? There’s a Support Group for That

There are even ten steps involved, mind the Caravaggio rule. At my editor's suggestion I've...

September 2015

September 01, 2015

Why I Love Facebook and the #1 Secret to Radio Success

This Saturday (Sept 5th) I'll be on Outside the Walls with Timothy Putnam talking about parish...

July 2015

July 02, 2015

How to Make Sense of Pope Francis News, This Saturday on Outside the Walls

Yesterday I had more fun than a person should be allowed to have before 10AM,...

January 2015

January 08, 2015

Pastoral Care on the Radio, Love of God & Neighbor in Print – Updated

UPDATED to fix the link. My apologies! *** I was amused at some of the...

July 2014

July 25, 2014

Conference Update: Saturdays Specials, Catholic Success & a Full House for Distracted Parenting 101

A little update from the Midlands Homeschool Convention, where I'm making my home-away-from-home this week:...

July 24, 2014

Gone Conferencing . . .

See you there!

July 22, 2014

How Do I Get the Kids to Behave in Class? There’s a book for that.

My book is up on the block today at Simcha Fisher's NFP Week Giveaway extravaganza....

July 17, 2014

Meet-the-Author and Other Fun Writing Events

Catholic Writers Conference registration is still open, and the schedule of events for the conference...