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Jen Nilsson has an MBA, a nice condo, and a fast-track job at a tech startup in Silicon Valley. If her big product launch goes well next month, she may finally land the marketing director job she’s been gunning for. But then her younger sister, Katie, just out of college… Read more »
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I recently traveled to Minnesota to attend a good friend’s wedding. It was great to catch up with him and visit with others. I got to tour the wonderful Minneapolis Institute of Art with Catholic artist Timothy Jones, and also for the first time met with a cousin I hadn’t… Read more »
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When It Comes to Marriage and Family, Stories Matter
by John Herreid
April 8, 2016 3:02 pm 6 Comments
I’ve finished reading Pope Francis’ new Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia. I’m sure there will be much discussion of the document over the next few weeks, and much reflection. As the Pope says in the introduction, “Given the rich fruits of the two-year Synod process, this Exhortation will treat, in different… Read more »
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My first memories of my father are of his absence. World War Two was raging. He was a soldier somewhere in France, or Luxembourg, or maybe Germany. At times, nobody knew for certain until a letter arrived from the warfront. Written three weeks ago, the letter could only tell us… Read more »
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Reading with my mother, 1979. My mother never lived to see any of her grandchildren. Each year as Mother’s Day rolls around, I’m reminded again of this fact. She died in the month of May when many of her own children were still young, surrounded by family in the living… Read more »
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Video: Interview with Roger Thomas, Author of The Accidental Marriage
by Ignatius Press Novels
September 22, 2014 2:47 pm Leave a Comment
You can find The Accidental Marriage details here and buy it online (hardback or ebook). Roger Thomas switches hats from pro-life advocate to fiction writer in this interview. Thomas, who has two books of fiction with Ignatius, is promoting his latest, The Accidental Marriage, which covers an unconventional couple in… Read more »
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Memory and Sensation: Feeding the Imagination
by John Herreid
December 16, 2013 10:35 am Leave a Comment
“Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes it or not, an association in his mind between two ideas that most of mankind must regard as remote from each other; the idea of a baby and the idea of unknown strength… Read more »