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  • Quiet and Loud – Raised Catholic episode 5

    Quiet and Loud – Raised Catholic episode 5

    The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 5 – Quiet and Loud Well hello friends. In one of my non-podcasting vocations, I’m an early childhood music teacher.  I’ve done this work for almost twenty years and I’m continually amazed at what the kids…


  • Is It Okay to Question? – Raised Catholic Episode 4

    Is It Okay to Question? – Raised Catholic Episode 4

    The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 4: Is it Okay to Question? If you were born and raised Catholic, you may have received and internalized a message about the authority of the Church and its teachings and even of its clergy and…


  • Who is God? – Raised Catholic Episode 3

    Who is God? – Raised Catholic Episode 3

    The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 3: Who Is God Well, Happy 2021, friends!  As we continue to do the work of rebuilding a life of faith, a quick reminder that last week we looked at the question of who we are…


  • Who Are You? – Raised Catholic Episode 2

    The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 2: Who Are You? Well, hi friends. If we are rebuilding a faith foundation, we’ll have to start with one of the big questions: Who are you? Many of us who were raised Catholic might…


  • Notre Dame – Raised Catholic Episode 1

    Notre Dame – Raised Catholic Episode 1

    The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To hear the podcast click here. Today is episode one. Notre Dame In April of 2019 a devastating fire hit the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. It was a massive news story, maybe you remember it. And since that day, with a huge investment of…


  • I Don’t Know How to Love Him

    I Don’t Know How to Love Him

    Today is Good Friday. I listened to the soundtrack from Jesus Christ Superstar as I took a long walk and asked God to help me enter into His story.  I experienced a shock of realizing just how clueless everyone around Jesus was as He lived, taught, and died.  I’m forty-nine years old, and I’ve experienced a lot…


  • Pivot

    Pivot

    We are almost to the one-year anniversary of the time when everything changed.  And there’s not a date we can look to, specifically, but there is a feeling we can name when we increasingly understood that something big was happening at this time last year.  Maybe it was when you or your dear ones had to…


  • Raised Catholic Podcast

    Raised Catholic Podcast

    Hi friends, I’m five short episodes into the Raised Catholic podcast and I was hoping to get your feedback so I can see if I’m on the right track so far. With the podcast, I am hoping to build a space for cradle Catholics (and others – all are welcome!) who might be struggling with…


  • Bulb

    Bulb

    A friend dropped off a large amaryllis bulb in a pretty turquoise pot just before Christmas. As we stood masked in my driveway that day and he handed me the heavy gift bag, there’s no way he could have known the true weight and value of the gift he was giving me.  More likely, his wife,…


  • Witness

    Witness

    If you dropped onto this planet somewhere in America in the past few years and learned about what it means to be Christian or Catholic-Christian strictly from what you saw from vocal national church leaders and from church-aligned media, you might draw some conclusions about the nature and purpose of Christianity and the Church. You…