For a long time I thought of marriage as basically a serious promise between two people. A really…

This week I’m turning to marriage, and I want to start somewhere practical instead of somewhere lofty. For…

St. John Chrysostom, writing in the fourth century about how a husband and wife should run their home,…

There’s a moment near the end of Joshua where the whole story turns personal. Joshua has led the…

I used to treat Sunday like a slower version of every other day. Sleep in a little, maybe…

This week I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to actually lead my family spiritually. Saying…

I’ve been thinking about Joshua 4 this week, the twelve stones pulled up from the middle of the…

For a while, I thought my job when it came to my kids’ faith was mostly logistics. Get…

For a long time, grace before dinner at our house meant waiting to see who would say something…

I don’t remember much about my father’s voice from when I was small, but I remember his arms.…

I’ve been sitting with something John writes, almost in passing. See what kind of love the Father has…

I grew up calling God things like Lord, and God, and Almighty. True words, good words. But somewhere…

There’s a detail in the story of the prodigal son I didn’t notice for years. The father doesn’t…

I started reading Pope Francis’s letter on St. Joseph this week, the one called Patris Corde, “With a…

For a long time I assumed I already knew what God the Father was like, because I thought…

I’ve been sitting with something small this week, and it won’t let me go. Everything I think I…

Four weeks ago I started writing about building a foundation, Scripture, the sacraments, prayer, the saints, like it…

I keep coming back to John Henry Newman today. Today is actually his feast day, the anniversary of…

For a long time I thought asking a saint to pray for me was basically going around God.…

Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, and I almost let it pass without noticing.…

I have been circling one line from Augustine’s Confessions for a few days now. Late have I loved…

Paul wrote those words from a prison cell, near the end, when he knew there wasn’t much time…

This month I’ve been trying to build something, Scripture as the ground, the sacraments, and learning to actually…

This week I’ve been trying to actually build a prayer life, not just say prayers. I got up…

This week I’ve been trying to actually build a prayer life, not just hope one shows up on…

I used to think a good prayer needed to sound a certain way. I would catch myself rehearsing…

I used to think a real prayer life would just happen on its own, that if I loved…

I’ve spent a lot of my life thinking prayer had to sound like something. Real sentences, the right…