The joy of conversion, Christian community, and the Catholic faith
Featured in NewEvangelizers.com I wish my father had read The Healing Power of a Father’s Blessing by Linda Schubert. He parented his three daughters from a distance, following the familiar pattern of how he was raised. Oh, Daddy was in town, working six days a week at the five-and-dime stores he managed in towns around...
Just in time for Lent, I interviewed Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB author of a beautiful book of Lenten devotions, Cultivating God’s Garden through Lent. As an Advanced Master Gardener, Margaret knows how to grow just about anything and shares her spiritual insights received while working with nature. During Lent, JoyAlive.net will feature short quotes...
by Linda Schubert As a child of no faith I spent my early years on an isolated mountain ranch on the Northern California coast, attending a country school with 14 children, all grades in one room. With little socialization, I grew up introverted, insecure, with a stubborn independence I often attributed to my Dutch heritage....
Featured Favorite: Why I Remain Catholic – #WhyRemainCatholic I was created for Truth, created to be Catholic. There’s no going back from where I belong. Pope Francis: The Church is and must be the family of God – In today's papal audience, Pope Francis speaks on how the spirit of the family is the constitutional...
Pope Francis: Jesus has no ‘shortlist’ – Pope Francis in America: The canonization of Blessed Junipero Serra: Jesus has no ‘shortlist’ of people worthy of His message. The flavor is skin deep – Deanna Klingel recalls how her toddlers learned that skin color doesn’t matter. It’s what inside that counts. Joy Stories: Conversion–This journey of...
The keynote speaker, Pat Gohn, wowed us with her talk on Perseverance at the Catholic Writers Conference (CWG) Live. Whether or not you are a writer, you can apply her “Prayer and Practices of Writers and Artists” to your calling in life. That’s because “art and faith (our work and faith) are not compartmentalized –...