I was a junior in college taking an American History class during the 2016 presidential election. The large public university I attended ensured that my classes had people of various…
When’s the last time you went outside, laid on the grass, and just like, watched the clouds roll by? Before this morning, I don’t think I’ve done that since I…
I come to Jesus, tired and worn. The little day-to-day stressors and to-do lists have piled up until I feel drained and empty—I have nothing left to give. I come…
“For dust you are and to dust you will return” (Genesis 3:19). When we go to Mass on Wednesday and enter into the season of Lent, we will hear the…
I don’t need a man in my life to make me happy. While I want a best friend to journey through life and pursue heaven with, I know it’s not…
I have a love/hate relationship with social media. Some days, I want to chuck all technology out the window, get a flip phone with no internet, and just live my…
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” These words, spoken by Benjamin Franklin, reflect the importance of one of the…
Do you ever think back on your past and remember a time in your life when things were going really well—you were achieving your dreams and living on a high—and…
What we do in this life echoes in eternity. That is the famous line of an all-time favorite movie character of mine, Maximus Decimus Meridius, from Gladiator. These words contain…
I recently attended a large Catholic funeral where many people present were either not practicing Catholics or were not Catholic at all. I knew the friends sitting beside me were…
Integrating faith and politics.