Many stories dedicate a good part of their introduction to what’s known as “narrative exposition,” which presents the reader/viewer with information about the characters, their histories and their relationships. This…
This was originally posted as a column on the Grandin Media website. In the spring of 2001, I found myself facing some heavy-duty discernment. A former roommate had entered the…
Today is Holy Thursday, the beginning of the Easter Triduum, a three day feast which remembers for us the events of Christ’s Paschal mystery. Although we celebrate them over three…
This was originally posted as a column on the Grandin Media website. A few years ago, I sat down with my two oldest kids and read them The Chronicles of…
It’s one of the questions I get asked most often in class, so I’ve put together my three best answers to one of the basic questions of our faith… is…
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” -Michelangelo The great gift of any great artist is the…
Every Sunday, from the time I was seven years old, I would walk up the aisle of my local parish Church. When I got to the front of the line,…
Scripture begins with the story of a man and a woman saying a definitive “no” to their creator, rejecting not only God’s one direction to them (don’t eat the fruit!),…
A previous version of LIFETEEN.com featured questions and answers from the one and only Bible Geek, Mark Hart, (in a section called “Ask the Bible Geek”). When a teen asked…
One of the questions I’ve been hearing on a regular basis over the past few months has been the Catholic perspective on “mediums” – persons who believe that they have…