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January 2022

January 07, 2022

Dark Devotional: Faith is a Tension

I’ve had a cold ever since returning from my Christmas holiday extravaganza with family...

April 2021

April 09, 2021

Dark Devotional: Seeing Is Believing

Jesus said to [Thomas], “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed...

February 2021

February 06, 2021

Dark Devotional: I Have Questions

The Job story does NOT sit well with me. At all. Why, I wonder,...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

When a Good Catholic Girl Goes Bad

I was so skinny as a teenager that the pediatrician started asking concerned questions...

March 2019

March 08, 2019

Dark Devotional: Of Grand Temptations and Ordinary Doubt

“Father, will you listen to me? Are you still there? Will you listen to...

November 2018

November 07, 2018

Why I Can’t Stay

Something changed inside of me during the week following this summer’s shattering Pennsylvania Grand Jury...

August 2018

August 26, 2018

I Wish I Could Believe: Marie’s Story

My friend says I can still talk to you, even if I don't believe anymore....

August 12, 2018

I Want To Believe: Theresa’s Story

The theater is tiny, curtained on all sides, with carpeted benches rather than seats. There...

August 06, 2018

I Want To Believe: Kristy’s Story

People ask me the same question a lot: How can you still be a Christian?...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

I Want To Believe: Matt’s Story

I’m not sure about this. This whole series, I Want To Believe, scares me, even...

July 23, 2018

I Want To Believe: Introduction

I can remember my first class in grad school, Intro to Counseling, almost a decade...

July 20, 2018

Dark Devotional: Bigger Than Holy Dirt

Original art by the sparkly and crystalline Brian Jocks. "There is nothing so secular it...

July 18, 2018

Sick Pilgrim Goes to the Movies: Kiki’s Delivery Service

If you happen to visit our house sometime and find yourself invited down to our...

June 2018

June 14, 2018

Sick Pilgrim Goes to the Movies: Adrift

It really was on a whim. I had nothing to do that evening, and a...

March 2018

March 24, 2018

Dark Devotional: The Jackass

The curtain is about to rise on the greatest week of the year for Catholicism....

October 2017

October 19, 2017

Dark Devotional: Playing Both Sides

The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent...

August 2017

August 25, 2017

Dark Devotional: A Wild Messiah

`` I still remember the first time I read The Chronicles of Narnia, about...

August 12, 2017

Dark Devotional: Who Will You Call When You’re Drowning?

I want to tell you a story. I want to tell you a...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Dark Devotional: Go and Make a Mess of Things

Could it be that our weakness is exactly what the power of the Gospel needs...

April 2017

April 21, 2017

Dark Devotional: Pardoning Thomas

I was hospitalized twice for a total of 28 days in a period of 38 days for...

December 2016

December 23, 2016

A Christmas Card to Those Who Go to Church Once A Year, Love Sick Pilgrim

Every year, my local church divides each Mass on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day into...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

The Dark Devotional: St. Thomas Didymus: A Heart Made Double by Breaking

Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Dark Devotional: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: God Disappears

Click here for the complete Mass readings for January 31, 2016. A reading from the...