Jacob Ind underwent horrific sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of his mother and stepfather. At the age of 15, he murdered them both. Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik were small-town Idaho teens. In 2006 they donned masks, drove to the residence where classmate Cassie Jo Stoddart was housesitting, and brutally stabbed her to […]
Month: September 2014
ONE REALLY INTERIOR SOUL: A STORY AND PAINTING FROM MATTHEW KIRBY
It is a terrible misfortune when there is not to be found one really interior soul among all those at the head of important Catholic projects. Then it seems as though the supernatural had undergone an eclipse, and the power of God were in chains. And the saints teach us that, when this happens, a […]
MEDITATIONS OF A BEEKEEPER
Earlier this year, I visited Madonna House: the lay community in Combermere, Ontario, founded by the late Russian emigré and mystic Catherine Doherty. Life at Madonna House is deeply incarnational. Members grow their own food, cut their own wood, make their own altar cloths, candles, icons. My last day there, Andorra Howard, a community member […]
BOOK REVIEW: THE RISE, CREATIVITY, FAILURE AND MASTERY
As a free-lance creative writer, I can hardly read enough about rejection and failure. So here’s a book that recently caught my eye: The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure and the Search for Mastery. Author Sarah Lewis rightly points out the danger of falling into a rut of the safe and the familiar. She […]