Lent
How to Step Outside Yourself this Ash Wednesday
It’s coming. Lent starts in less than two weeks on Ash Wednesday. For most Newman centers, more people show up on Ash Wednesday than any other day of the year. There’s something about this day that...
Parenting
3 Things Your Teen is Right About, and 3 Things You Know Better
Don't treat teens like they are wrong about everything. Don't treat them like they're right about everything either. My first rule of parenting teens is to always say "Yes" when they want to...
Who is God
Learning to See God as Loving Father
The Christian life can become a lifeless life if we only see it as an exercise in sin management. “None of you kids arrived with a manual, you know!” So said my father, frequently, but...
Culture
How I Think Through Voting as a Catholic
Within the polarized arena of politics, every political party is bombarding us, the voters, with information and argumentation that appeals to our sense of morality. They each declare, in different...