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LIFE’S LIKE A MOVIE: THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

• B-Movie Catechism
• Thursday, May 24th, 2012
• David

So I crank up the engine the other day and and lo and behold, it seems my truck has decided to start communicating with me through binary…

Now I couldn’t quite place it at the time, but there was just… Read More

The Gift of Shame (And the Habit of Justifying Stupidity)

• Young and Catholic
• Thursday, May 24th, 2012
• Mary Lane

God is so kind to me.  Knowing that I would suffer from writer’s block today (despite a list of potential blog topics and questions to answer), He nudged a reader to send me this list, knowing it would give me… Read More

Baptism in the Wilderness

• Clan Donaldson
• Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
• Cari Donaldson

The afternoon sun streams gently through the stained glass windows, leaving puddles of jewel-toned light here and there among the pews.  
The smell of incense lingers in the air from Mass, and all the members of the family pause and… Read More

He Won’t Ever get to be Pregnant

• House Unseen
• Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
• Dwija Borobia

I used to envy my husband.
Maybe envy isn’t even a strong enough word.  Let’s start over.
I used to nurse a precious little nugget of contempt for my husband.  Because he…he will never have to be pregnant.  He will… Read More

How the Way of Beauty Atelier has helped a Young Architect to Move Forward in his Career

• The Way of Beauty
• Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
• David Clayton

An architecture student who attended a drawing class in last summers the Way of Beauty program at Thomas More College in New Hampshire tells how what he learnt about traditional proportion has improved his designs and enabled him to get a prestigious scholarship. Last summer an young Catholic architecture graduate, Geoff Yovanovic attended one of the Way of Beauty Atelier drawing classes. As well as improving his drawing, he hoped that what he would learn might give him insights in to how architecture can conform to a culture of beauty; and give him an edge in his search

STILL VOICES

• B-Movie Catechism
• Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
• David

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Ascension,iPod,soundtracks, and prayer

• Coffee & Canticles
• Friday, May 18th, 2012
• Daria Sockey

I’m writing another article for Catholic Digest, this time about how the internet and all related gadgets can help our prayer life (e.g. online breviaries) or hinder it (we spend so much time on the internet surfing  catholic websites that… Read More

But sacrifices are so…*inconvenient*

• House Unseen
• Friday, May 18th, 2012
• Dwija Borobia

You know what’s a huge pain?  Sacrifice.  I mean the real kind, where you have to actually sacrifice something.  Man, I pretty much totally hate it.
See, I like the kind of “sacrifice” that makes me feel…awesome.  You know, like… Read More

How Do We Develop the Cultural Sensibilities of Children?

• The Way of Beauty
• Friday, May 18th, 2012
• David Clayton

I am regularly asked by parents how they can teach an appreciation of good traditional art to their children. One father recently went further than that and asked me if there was anything I could do to unculturate them in such a way that their sensibilities are in tune with a catholic culture in its broadest sense. These are the  ideas that I offered to him as personal thoughts. I do not have a family so cannot say that I have direct experience of this. 1. All traditional training in art involves drawing

How Knowing About Traditional Proportion Helped a Young Architect Move Forward in His Career

• The Way of Beauty
• Friday, May 18th, 2012
• David Clayton

An architecture student who attended a drawing class in last summer’s the Way of Beauty program at Thomas More College tells how what he learnt about traditional proportion has improved his designs and enabled him to get a prestigious scholarship.… Read More