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Deep Water – Raised Catholic episode 12

The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 12: Deep Water Well, hey friends. As we are rebuilding our faith foundation, brick by brick, we will at times meet questions without any neat answers, and this is one of those days. Today we’re talking…
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Let’s Talk About Lent – Raised Catholic episode 10

The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 10: Let’s Talk About Lent Well, hello friends. As I’m recording today’s podcast, we are just about one week into Lent of 2021 and I have some thoughts. I bet you do, too. Because of…
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Meeting Jesus – Raised Catholic episode 9
The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 9: Meeting Jesus Well, hello friends. If you were born and raised Catholic, you may have heard the phrase ‘personal relationship with Jesus’ and maybe had a few thoughts about it: 1. Um, that’s a…
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Be or Do – Raised Catholic episode 7

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Catholics and the Bible – Raised Catholic episode 6

The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 6 – Catholics and the Bible Well hello friends. If you were born and raised Catholic, your relationship to the Bible just may be limited to the readings you hear or have heard at Mass. Certainly,…
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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…
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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…
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Who is God? – Raised Catholic Episode 3

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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…
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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…
