Catalyst Question How do you define success? Witnessing a New Era This week, a new era in began in college sports: a twelve team playoff to name the national champion in collegiate football. For many years–in fact, for more than a century–champions were determined through voting of either coaches or
Today’s Reading: Read Revelation 7:1-17 Christmas is here! Were you successful? Did you find the perfect gift? Spend some time today celebrating the gift of salvation that is possible for us because of what we celebrate on Christmas morning! Christmas is absolutely about gifts but the thing to remember is
Revival in America There are spiritual tremors—is a full-scale quake on the horizon? Rediscovering the true reason for the season Just as regularly as the approach of Christmas means an increase in the number of advertisements for perfume on television, so also it means that anti-Christian sceptics will proclaim that
By now the Catholic Church’s support of a “living wage” (along with the related but differing “just wage”) is well known. Magisterial social teaching, along with the documents of synods and bishops’ conferences, since the promulgation of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum has consistently upheld his declaration that one “has a
SPOILER ALERT: The second part of this article contains The Office spoilers. How to be a man? I picked up a book while Christmas shopping this December that I hoped might give me an answer. It is called The Book of Men. It is a collection of eighty short stories,
As Mitt Romney prepares to relinquish his office at the end of the current Senate term, several media outlets have offered interesting reflections on his career as well as interviewing him to seek his own thoughts in retrospection. Here are two excerpts. The first is a link to an interview
Asia is one of the most disaster-hit regions in the world, with floods, cyclones, earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic eruptions. Unplanned urbanization, a steep increase in population, depleting forest green cover, and environmental degradation trigger the most severity and complexity. The impacts are on the day-to-day lives of people, affecting their
Today’s Reading: Read 2 Timothy Since it’s the season of making lists, brainstorm a list of all the things you believe God can do! Remember, He created the world, so there’s a lot He is capable of. You may need to set a timer so that this activity has a