Category: Countercultural

Puzzle Pieces (DollarPhotoClub.com)

Featured Favorite: Unique Puzzle Pieces

You and your husband are planning a vacation for your family.  As a wife and mother, you visualize a resort where you can leave the cleaning and cooking to someone else and relax by the pool. Your husband wants to go camping. In our Marriage Enrichment study, “A Marriage Made in Heaven,” we learned about...

Pink Fitness by Tallia22 (Freeimages.co)

CWG: The elusive judgment-free zone

Featured on CatholicWritersGuild.com The ad for a national fitness center franchise promised that for $10 a month I could enter a judgment-free zone. It gave the hours where I could escape the judgmental world around me to enter a place where no one judges my looks. So from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays...

Santa by Bartek Zielinski (freeimages.com)

Atheists and the Holy Spirit of Christmas

Featured on NewEvangelizers.com Most Christians are really atheists who feel trapped in their family’s religion. They need not be Christian to enjoy the holiday season. This cynical explanation is how David Silverman, president of American Atheists, rationalized the giant billboard in Times Square. Images of Santa and Jesus encourage the huge crowd of shoppers to...

Happy Friends in Summertime by Yanlev (Dollarphotoclub.com)

God’s Gift of Your Body

 Featured on CatholicMom.com Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? (1 Cor 6: 19) The Temple was the holiest of all places for the Jews because God dwelt there. Now they hear the incredible news...

Happy young family have fun on the beach by Shock (DollarPhotoClub.com)

Who owns your body?

For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body. (1 Cor 6:20) Our permissive culture subtly deceives us is into believing that our bodies are our own. It gives us permission to use them to gain popularity, express our worst desires or further our careers. We seem foolish if we...