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April 2021

April 01, 2021

Not by the Book

This is a continuation of our Lenten Series: Sick Pilgrim’s Progress on pilgrimage. You can...

March 2021

March 25, 2021

Still on the Road

This is a continuation of our Lenten Series: Sick Pilgrim's Progress on pilgrimage. You can...

March 18, 2021

Recalibrating Your GPS

This is our fifth article in our Lenten series about pilgrimage, Sick Pilgrim's Progress. You can...

March 04, 2021

Taking the Long Way Home

This is the third week of our Lenten Series: Sick Pilgrim's Progress. You can read...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Pilgrimage of the Soul

This is part of a Lenten series on pilgrimage. Find the first part here. When...

February 18, 2021

Sick Pilgrims’ Progress: A Lenten Series

“Lent is a journey of return to God…It is a time to reconsider the path...

February 17, 2021

Yippee, It’s Lent. Again.

“Hey, Mom. Are you excited about Ash Wednesday?” This is my daughter, who gets excited...

February 16, 2021

Let the Good Times Roll!

When I was a freshman in parochial high school, the nun I had as a...

February 15, 2021

TKUG: Rolling Up on Lent Edition

Time flies when you are having fun (at home. In a pandemic.). Lent begins this...

February 27, 2020

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Catholicism: A Listicle with Apologies to Wallace Stevens

1. Inside you there are two wolves. One wolf is Catholicism; the other wolf...

March 2019

March 01, 2019

Dark Devotional: Where, O Death, Is Your Sting?

In the second reading, Paul writes to the Corinthians, “Death is swallowed up in...

March 26, 2018

An Offering in Betrayal – A Holy Week Meditation

"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack,...

April 2017

April 07, 2017

RIP Rich Mullins: Palm Sunday Dark Devotional

"You had no stones to throw You came without an ax to grind You did...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Sick Confessions: I’m a Bad Pray-er

"You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is...

March 19, 2017

St. Joseph’s Altar: The Lenten Feast?

Every year in my school, the classes would take a bus to a nearby banquet...

March 08, 2017

Road Trip Homilies: Wounded Knee and the Snake Givers

As I walked along a sandy path in Badlands National Park, I noticed a sign...

March 02, 2017

Dark Devotional: How Do I Get to the Desert?

I learned I had no discipline or willpower at age nine when my fourth grade...