Blog
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The Stories That Matter: Teaching History with Catholic Principles
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI For Catholics, history can also be seen as a journey among the souls who have gone before us and for whom we are obligated to pray.
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Reaching for the Sky: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen and the Pilots of the Caribbean
BY WESLEY HUTCHINS I tend to spend time looking about for parallels and differences between the experiences of Black Britons and African Americans.
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In Memorium: My Dad “Spock”
BY SHARON TOOTILL My Dad had absorbed the traditional British reserve – quiet, apparently proud and haughty and humourless.
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Riding with the Hunt
BY RACHEL SCHMIDT A lone whisper of a breeze blows past my ear: “You are one of us…Come and ride amongst our ranks…”
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You Will Soon Regret
BY YAIPHABI Beggars in rags, looking for things to get. Do something, or you’ll soon regret.
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A-Hunting We Will Go: The Historic Heraldry and Spiritual Symbolism of the Hunt
BY CHARLES A. COULOMBE Although falling out of fashion in today’s society, hunting has had a long and prestigious history of pageantry and spiritual significance.
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Wintertime
BY KATIE GEERLING A single, solitary snowflake twirling and fluttering down, to land softly and gently on a willow tree bough.
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The Traveler
BY CHRISTINA CULVERHOUES Hawk glides effortlessly high above the trees, acclimates to the biomes, clear vision to see.
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O Dayspring, Come: Frodo's Salvation through Mercy
BY STEPHEN C. WlNTER It is because of the pity of Eärendil. It is because of the pity of Bilbo. It is because of the pity of Galadriel who gave the glass to Frodo.
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John Williams: My Five Top Themes
BY BENJAMIN FEARN He has composed some of the most iconic film scores, and his music is synonymous with the films that he has scored for.
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Caspian’s Wife: A Chronicles of Narnia Story
BY AMANDA TKACZOW “Yes. I am King Peter’s daughter. I am the daughter of the man who was terribly angry for most of the duration of his last visit.”
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Love in a Time of Tigers: A St. Valentine's Day Reflection
BY BRYANA JOY JOHNSON The Hero who overrides every storybook champion invites you to ride with Him ever after.
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What is Love?
BY KAT CLEMENTS What is love? It is every love song you have ever heard wrapped in silver. It is the taste of amber fire on your tongue.
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Poppy and Pomegranate
BY AMANDA PIZZOLATTO “Do you see now where hate takes you? Especially hate that has no reasoning for it, behind it?”
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Love, Strength and Dignity: The Many Faces of Jane Eyre
BY KAT CLEMENTS Jane is, as she says, ‘poor, obscure, plain, and little.’ But she is full of heart, passion, and intelligence.
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Cloud Children
BY BETHANY SHELDAHL “I was wrong! I thought cloud-children were better than humans, but Timothy has saved my life! And now he will die.”
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Storytelling: A Ritual of Change
BY RACHEL SCHMIDT I expect, in a great story, for there to be something that stirs in me a sense of change- no matter how small or seemingly insignificant.
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That Essential Link
BY DAN KELLY That essential link, the continuity of our kind, I experience it again, life, on-going, unbroken.
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A God that Encircles: My Journey Through Celtic Christianity
BY MERCIA VAN DER VYVER To the Celtic Christian, God and Christ are everywhere, in and through, above and below all of creation.
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All Things Permitted?: God, Immortality, and Morality
BY EFFIE DEANS Christian morality is the paradoxical unity of salvation by faith alone and salvation by means of good works.