When I think back on the last year—big things and all—I think about how quiet everything has become.
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Prayer to the Saints | Prepared to Give an Answer
To say that we’re not connected to the Saints who have passed on, then, is cutting Christ’s sacrifice short—did He conquer death, or didn’t he?
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Sacramental Theology | Prepared to Give an Answer
I simply turned around one day and realized something profound: that I couldn't believe that God—who so loved the world that he became man—had chosen to stop meeting men where He always had.
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Prepared to Give an Answer: Testimony Part 1
The easiest place to start this particular story is to jump to the start of the era: my first year of college. Much of my faith was deeply formed in my later high school years – my graduating class had something of a dramatic, charismatic revival in our senior year…
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Prepared to Give an Answer: Introduction
I’ve fasted, prayed, cried, discerned, talked late into countless nights with friends and mentors, begged my God to lead me into what was true and away from what was false. And now, I have arrived on the doorstep of the Catholic Church. For so many people I have spoken with,…
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but the Lord was not in the wind | (freeform)
When I was young, I used to lay under the covers and clench a muscle in my jaw that made the ever-present hissing in my ears rise in pitch, just for a moment, and then fall to something like a ringing rain, something that sounded like what the thousands of…
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Lidocaine & Liturgy
Sometimes life needs a little more liturgy to center us on what's most important; but sometimes, each day gives us enough liturgy of its own.
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On Deconstruction: Or, Why Josh Harris Did the Right Thing
Josh Harris's deconstruction may just be the best thing that's ever happened to him.
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When You Don’t Have an Opinion | CS Pep Talk 002
To the student who feels like their opinionated classmates know way more than they do: “Okay, Visual Studio? Way better IDE than Eclipse.” A furrowed brow. “Okay… uh, what about IntelliJ?” “Eh,” a pause, “IntelliJ’s okay; but VS’s Intelli-Sense is honestly superior.” What even is that? And I like IntelliJ…
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What Your Degree is Really For | CS Pep Talk 001
Your degree is not for you to walk off campus with the knowledge of every language, framework, and operating system under your belt.