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2026-03-20T22:47:19-04:00

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No More Perfect Icon than a Neighbor

Last updated on: March 20, 2026 at 10:47 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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There were exactly two things on my to-do list. I was going to sit and write, not only my daily writing but also working on my book that I’ve neglected for months. And I was also going to clean the house. The kitchen in particular was getting shocking. Michael was at a ten-hour shift and Adrienne was in school, which meant that I had the place all to myself. I was excited to get a lot done–writing first, then... Read more

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2026-03-16T14:29:55-04:00

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A Birthday, A War, and A Hurtling Globe

Last updated on: March 16, 2026 at 2:29 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Jimmy’s boy knocked at the door while I was taking a nap, and then again while I was trying to wake up. I came stumbling down the stairs to see him on the doorstep in his brand new bike helmet, which is a bit too big and makes him look like a Lego man. “Can we plant peas now?” he asked. “You promised we’d do it on my birthday.” The last thing I wanted to do was go outside.... Read more

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To the Christians who are Excited about the End of the World

Last updated on: March 14, 2026 at 10:04 am By Mary Pezzulo

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It’s not a good news cycle, for someone who was raised in an apocalyptic religious movement. I am aware that not everyone who’s been in the Charismatic Renewal has experienced its apocalyptic side. I’m jealous of those people. My sect of the Charismatic Renewal was awash in end times prophecy, and I’ve written many times about how that traumatized me.I’ve been thinking an awful lot about end times prophesies and the hysteria that follows them this week. I get... Read more

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2026-03-11T23:22:21-04:00

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If You Can’t See that This War is Wrong…

Last updated on: March 11, 2026 at 11:22 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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There comes a point at which, if you can’t see how something is wrong, I can’t explain it any further. You either have empathy or you don’t. There’s no syllogism I can quote to you that will make you lead a moral life. There’s no set of rules that comprehends everything a Christian ought to do in every possible situation, without your actually having to deliberate and think. To lead a moral life, you have to have empathy. The... Read more

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2026-03-08T01:09:13-04:00

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Summer in Winter, Heaven in Hell

Last updated on: March 8, 2026 at 1:09 am By Mary Pezzulo

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There were still two weeks of winter left, but the air was was so warm, it might have been summer. The last of the snow had shrunk away and soaked the earth. The blades of brown grass had grown green. Besides the constant murmuring of LaBelle’s fat pigeons, the air was full of the chirrs and chirps of robins. Finally, just this week, it got good and warm. I went outside to the garden, to tend to the soil for... Read more

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2026-03-02T15:39:59-04:00

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Let’s Talk About Forever Wars in the Middle East

Last updated on: March 2, 2026 at 3:39 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Hi, kids! This is your old aunt Mary with a cautionary tale from the distant past! I am what you’d call an elder Millennial. I am so very elderly, I was a teenager during Y2K and the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath. What’s Y2K? Ah, let’s save that history lesson for another day. The point is, I was not yet sixteen at the last turn of the Millennium. I was here the last time the United States decided that they... Read more

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2026-02-27T23:38:02-04:00

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To Be Yourself Instead

Last updated on: February 27, 2026 at 11:38 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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I guess I should have expected everything to go wrong that afternoon. The art class I was teaching was supposed to be about Trompe L’Oeil, which means “trick the eye” and involves creating the illusion of a thing that isn’t really there. So I suppose it was rather appropriate that first I left the example piece of art I made at home, and then the internet wouldn’t work to show my slideshow on my laptop. It felt like I was... Read more

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On Millennials, Purity Culture, and the Epstein Files

Last updated on: February 23, 2026 at 2:41 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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I was born in 1984. I’ll be forty-two this fall. That makes me a Millennial. I was born at Saint Ann’s Hospital, which is now Mount Carmel Saint Ann, just moments across the border from Columbus, Ohio, in the suburb of Westerville. I was raised in Columbus, two blocks from Whetstone Library and just a short trip to the Ohio State University campus. My Methodist grandfather had a stately house in Beechwold, and my godparents live in German Village... Read more

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2026-02-20T01:03:21-04:00

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While Marked with the Sign of the Cross

Last updated on: February 20, 2026 at 1:03 am By Mary Pezzulo

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I don’t have anything easy to tell you. I have been healing in public, or trying to, stumbling through a very difficult life and writing about it because it’s all I have to write about, for the longest time now. And here it’s Lent again. I used to love Lent. I have never been a person to come to for simple, triumphalist answers. I can’t give you platitudes about Catholicism. I can only give you myself, a traumatized Catholic. Nothing... Read more

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2026-02-14T00:58:23-04:00

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The Things I’d Like to Think About America

Last updated on: February 14, 2026 at 12:58 am By Mary Pezzulo

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The immigrants in detention are starting to die. Or, rather, they’ve surely been dying for some time, but we are hearing about it more and more. We’re getting stories of severe medical neglect. Children are being fed moldy food crawling with worms. Prisoners are crammed into horrifically overcrowded cells with no blankets and no hygiene products. They are lying in their own filth, and being tied to chairs all night. It would be a crime to keep a convicted murderer... Read more

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