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Oh, I want pugs for Christmas. Oh, only pugs will do.

January 6, 2018
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

This Christmas season as we were making paper towel snowmen and paper towel nativity figures to give as presents, I had an idea for a gift for a friend and her family.

A year in review

January 5, 2018
By Kevin J. Parks
Filed Under: Blog, Guest Commentary, Uncategorized

At the start of a new year, let’s take a moment to look back at some of those special moments from 2017.

It’s cold outside, preparing for Epiphany, great Christmas gifts, and a happy New Year (7 Quick Takes)

January 4, 2018
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

If the wind chill is 5 degrees on Thursday, how many cups of hot chocolate will Judy need when the wind chill is 15 degrees below zero on Friday?

Matched through adoption: The first time we saw our son’s picture

January 3, 2018
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Uncategorized

I knew then that what I had heard other adoptive parents say was true. You can fall in love with a photo.

A saintly bishop and like a second father 

January 3, 2018
By Rico De Silva
Filed Under: Blog, Guest Commentary

My father passed away back in 1988, when I was 24. As I looked back in my interactions with Bishop Curlin, I now realize that he was, in many ways, like a second father to me.

A New Year’s Resolution: Giving others the benefit of the doubt

January 2, 2018
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

As I encounter people in my daily life—whether those who are close to me or those who are strangers—I am going to try to assume that they are acting with good intentions and their best understanding of situations.

Resolutions for 2018

January 2, 2018
By Greg Erlandson
Filed Under: Blog, Guest Commentary

If you are casting about for resolutions, or afraid you have too many of them, I have four suggestions that may save you either anxiety, guilt or both.

Found in translation

January 2, 2018
By Father T. Austin Murphy Jr.
Filed Under: Blog, Guest Commentary

It is beautiful, in fact, to get so close to the language of the early Church (even if it is the written and not spoken language) and to enter into the heart of God’s Word.

Have yourself a merry little pot-luck

December 30, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

There are holiday gatherings, and then there are holiday gatherings with wonderful punny themes.

Red-nosed root beer, Star Wars without spoilers, and a few Christmas leftovers (7 Quick Takes)

December 28, 2017
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Open Window

My sister Treasa is helping my dreams of a Christmas-carol-themed potluck come true, serving “Jingle Balls” meatballs, “Frosty the Salmon” salad, “We Three Wings,” and asking me to bring “Feliz Navi-dip.”

The perfect planner

December 27, 2017
By Robyn Barberry
Filed Under: Blog, Unconditional

Call me old-fashioned, but I’m one of those people who still relies on a paper planner to keep my life balanced and bound together.

Keeping our focus on Him

December 23, 2017
By Father J. Collin Poston
Filed Under: Blog, Dust and Dewfall

Can you imagine your life without Christ? Without Jesus? How different everything – everything! – indeed would be.

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