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  • International Church Planting Stories

    Our church has been blessed with the opportunity to support global workers who are engaged in church planting efforts around the world. These disciples are multiplying disciples, sharing the whole gospel of Jesus Christ with neighbors and nations, embodying our mission to engage people anywhere, anytime, with anybody. Jennifer and

  • The Eucharist and the Transformation of Politics

    Pope Francis calls politics “a lofty vocation and one of the highest forms of charity, inasmuch as it seeks the common good” (Evangelii Gaudium, §205). Indeed, it is “the field of charity at its most vast” (Fratelli Tutti,§180, quoting Pius XI). “If someone helps an elderly person cross a river,

  • Marcel Proust’s View from the Persecutor’s Side

    For the first-time reader of In Search of Lost Time, Proust’s sinuous sentences can feel convoluted and even taxing, demanding—without due cause—such a sustained attention that editions of Proust’s masterpiece released “for the modern reader” should be equipped with a medicinal preface that contains a filled prescription for Ritalin. This is

  • September 26 | Rebuilding

    Today’s Reading: Read Nehemiah 1-4 Grab some Lincoln Logs or your favorite set of blocks and work together as a family to build a walled city. After you build it, choose someone to destroy it. Work together to build back the wall that was destroyed.  Remember, work together as a

  • What Heaven Is Not

    One of the ways to gain clarity about a given thing is to explore not simply what that thing is, but rather to investigate precisely what it is not. When a scientist, for example, wonders what is behind a given effect, it can be an incredibly fruitful exercise to begin