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October 2016

October 01, 2016

October, Sick Pilgrim style: Patron of the month, Creepy Fulton Sheen

October is our favorite month for so many reasons. Down in southern Louisiana, the weather...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

Raising my son in an age of gun worship and racial violence

There are summer days in Northwest Michigan when the temperature hovers at 80 degrees, a...

September 14, 2016

We’re All Catfishers….

My heart broke when I read Chase Padusniak's catfishing post and his story of being taken...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

Being Catholic, Being Cajun: Catholic Identity and its Discontents

The calamity in my neck of the woods, Southern Louisiana, is pervasive. My entire community has...

August 14, 2016

South Louisiana’s Great Flood of 2016

The Flood of the Century. The Great Flood. A Flood of Biblical Proportions. The Hundred...

August 13, 2016

Come Back, Elliott: A Man Writes a Tear Stained Review of Pete’s Dragon

(Spoilers ahoy) When the original Pete's Dragon came out in 1977,...

August 09, 2016

Seeking Tanis: The Search for Enchantment Leads (Back) to the Church

"When I say the first line of the Lord's Prayer: 'Our Father, who art in...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

Resistance is our Charism: Why Sick Pilgrims are Catholic rebels with a cause

People are always asking what Sick Pilgrim is about and what we want to accomplish....

July 20, 2016

Sick Pilgrim Chats: Jonathan and Jess Bingewatch Stranger Things

Sick Pilgrim started when we, Jess and Jonathan, two writers and editors, started chatting...

July 14, 2016

St. Kateri, Pray for the National Parks and Against Our Abuse of God’s Creation

I'm something of a National Park fanatic. On my cubicle wall at Ave Maria Press,...

July 10, 2016

Six Steps Toward Creating a Culture of Life

Catholic writers often find themselves in a weird position. We're accused of being neanderthal conservatives...

July 07, 2016

When White People Worship Death, Black People Die.

How does a white person write about what's going on in our country with the...

June 2016

June 19, 2016

Weird Things Happened on the Set of The Conjuring

(As a part of The Conjuring coverage, we're republishing this article from my blog The...

June 01, 2016

Death of a Gorilla: A Sentimental Holocaust

For the past few days, my Facebook feed has been filled with video of...

May 2016

May 22, 2016

Surprised by Dangerous Joy: Lessons from Chewbacca Woman

By now, everyone has seen the video of Chewbacca woman, the lady who buys a...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

The Bloody, Enchanted Host

About seven years ago, I took a job as an assistant minister in Columbus, Ohio....

April 21, 2016

A Eulogy for Prince

Huh? Prince can’t die. Prince isn’t even human. Prince is ageless, immortal. Prince does not get...

April 19, 2016

Catholic-Attracted? Come Sit By Us. A Reflection on the Festival of Faith and Writing

We're still recovering from our first-ever Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College--where Jonathan and...

April 03, 2016

Is this Heaven? An Ode to the Sacramental Beauty of Baseball

Our regular Sick Pilgrims might be shocked to read a meditation on sports gracing the...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Light One Candle

Every week after Mass I light a candle. I love the smell of hot wax...

March 02, 2016

Coming Soon: The Sick Pilgrim Travelin’ Medicine (Radio!) Show

When we decided to start Sick Pilgrim, we imagined it as more than a blog. We wanted...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

It’s the Season of The Witch: Fear, Trump, and Pope Francis

As a writer of paranormal thrillers, I get asked about horror movies all the...

February 28, 2016

We’re the Church that Bans Puppies, Kitties, Movies and Other Things You Love (Not really, but it’s fun to say!)

"Through his works, the artist speaks to others and communicates with them. The history of...

February 18, 2016

Review of The Third Inkling, a biography of Charles Williams (a very Sick Pilgrim indeed)

Two weeks ago, my review of The Third Inkling, a biography of Charles Williams, was...

February 02, 2016

A Canticle for the Alien Church (The Real Clash between Mulder and Scully)

Sixteen years ago, I was driving across the Texas desert in the middle of the...