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  • New Wineskins – Raised Catholic 138

    New Wineskins – Raised Catholic 138

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 138: New Wineskins Hi friends. Just a reminder that we have moved into our Substack era here at the Raised Catholic podcast, that’s the place where we get to be in conversation over the…

  • Raised Catholic Community – Raised Catholic 137

    Raised Catholic Community – Raised Catholic 137

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 137: Raised Catholic Community Hi friends. Last week we concluded a huge summer series all taken from inspiration from just one week I spent in Rome. If you need to catch up on those,…

  • Full Circle – Raised Catholic 136

    Full Circle – Raised Catholic 136

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 136: Full Circle Hi friends. Today is the conclusion of my Rome series – in total, there are ten full episodes in this series which are all taken from inspiration and experiences from just…

  • Surprise Lenten Episode: New Wine – Raised Catholic 114

    Surprise Lenten Episode: New Wine – Raised Catholic 114

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 114: New Wine Hi friends. I know I said there’d be no new podcasts during Lent but only short reflections here or there, but today’s topic has been brewing in me for several days…

  • 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 – episodes one and two

    Raised Catholic – episodes one and two

    Hi friends, I’m starting a new adventure, a podcast offering which I hope will serve a population that’s not getting a lot of care these days. This is for the ones who were raised Catholic but who are now struggling with church while seeking connection with God in these hard times. I hope you’ll have…

  • Puddles

    Puddles

    I was praying for a particular person recently and felt an image of a bucket of light being poured out at their feet like paint from a can.  The light spread like paint, slowly, into a puddle and it was just enough to step in, just enough to give direction but not nearly enough for a…

  • Raised

    Raised

    Have you ever heard someone say they were “raised Catholic?” or were you raised Catholic yourself?  Me too.  There’s a lot of us, “raised” from birth as “cradle Catholics”.  Strangely, you hear these descriptors far less among people of other faiths.  I don’t often hear about people who were “raised“ Jewish, or of “cradle” Protestant Christians or Muslims.  The idea…

  • Way

    Way

    Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. ~Isaiah 43:18-19 I’d be surprised if there’s a soul reading these words who doesn’t feel we’re…

  • Hope

    Hope

    On December 31, 2019, I had a lot of hopes.  At our sweet friends’ New Year’s Eve party, I shakily wrote my resolution on a thin piece of cardboard: ‘attend my first writer’s conference’ and then I paused and added something like, ‘pursue publishing’.  In the weeks that followed, I applied for and received a…