Guardians Of Atlanta Episode 10 – The Legend of Stone Mountain Part 2
By Joshua David Ling … “O’er the hills and through the pain, / Where I will be Witch-Queen again, / I command and this body obeys, / Over the hills and gone always!”
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Faithful Friday: Stephen Nguyen Van Vinh
By T.K. Wilson … Today (December 19th), the church commemorates Stephen Nguyen Van Vinh and his companions, who were martyred for their faith on this date in 1839.
Read MoreAnd This the Happy Morn
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall …
No one has yet messed up Advent (aka “The Christmas Season,” which it is not), and so we are spared Advent sales and Advent gifts and Advent movies and news stories babbling about The True Meaning of Advent. Advent is a season that points to the Nativity, not to itself.
Guardians Of Atlanta Episode 9 – The Legend of Stone Mountain Part 1
By Joshua David Ling … Over the last chapters of this story, / We saw heroes and heroines in fantastic glory. / From Cyrus the Cyclone, to Bobby the Magician. / To William the Knight, and Amira the bless’d twin…
Read MoreFaithful Friday: St. John of the Cross
By Ian Wilson … The celebrated mystic, St. John of the Cross, was born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez on June 24, 1542, in Fontiveros, Spain. Even as a child, John knew he wanted to live the ascetic life. After the untimely death of his father and older brother when John was only three years old, John was sent to a boarding school for poor orphaned children. There, he received a religious education, and served as an acolyte at an Augustinian monastery.
Read MoreSummer-Autumn 2025: The Bible, Science, & Metaphysics
Join us as we explore God & Science through The Bible & Science, with some Metaphysics to boot! We’ve got part two of our scientist interview, summer AND fall pictures, more scientists, poetry, and an explanation of what in the world metaphysics actually entails. Enjoy!
Read MoreFaithful Friday: St. Justinian
By Lyn Wilson … Saint Justinian (or Stinan) of Ramsey was a 6th Century Monk from Breton who moved to Ramsey Island in Pembrokeshire in modern day Wales.
Read MoreFirst Snow
By Sarah Losardo … Falling from grey skies / In big flakes, / Really coming down…
Read MoreFaithful Friday: Catherine Laboure
By Sarah Losardo … It was in Paris that she discovered the identity of the priest in her vision – St. Vincent De Paul, the founder of the Sisters of Charity. In January 1830, Zoe finally joined the Sisters of Charity in Paris, taking the name Catherine. The same year, first in July and again in November, Sister Catherine was visited by the Blessed Virgin Mary, who entrusted to her a medallion to be given to the world.
Read MoreThe Delivery of Doom
By Ian Wilson … It was hard to describe; it wasn’t human, nor was it like any animal I had ever seen, like a parody of biology, a satanic practical joke. Its gawky body was ink-black. Multiple eyes blazed out of its head. Its mouth, if you could call it a mouth, was a mass of dripping tentacles. I screamed. Holding my rosary aloft, I shouted, “In Christ’s name, get back!”
Read MoreHaving a Mature Relationship with Jesus in the Spiritual Life
By Stephen Steiniger … Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. As such, he is due special attention and praise. He is alone among human beings. As true God and man, Jesus exists as one of us, but something more. He is the source and summit of our life. He is our beginning and end.
Read MoreGuardians Of Atlanta Episode 8 – The Freakshow And The Eclipse
By Joshua David Ling … But I hear her evil calling me. / And I cannot turn away. / Save me please, oh Marlynn, my angel! / Please show me the way!
Read MoreFaithful Friday: Saint Gregory Palamas
By Ian Wilson … St. Gregory Palamas was a highly influential saint of the Eastern Church, who is best remembered for advancing and defending the practice of hesychasm, or internal prayer. His life and written works have inspired many through the centuries to draw nearer to God in prayer and in an ascetic life.
Read MoreCara’s Drive
By Sarah Losardo … Cara dashed tears away from her face with the back of her hand, blinking hard in an attempt to see well enough to drive safely. Her twenty-year-old civic rattled a little at 70 miles per hour, but Cara was pretty sure it wasn’t anything serious. It certainly didn’t matter right now – all that mattered was getting home to Maryland to the side of her mother’s hospital bed.
Read MoreGuardians Of Atlanta Episode 7 – Mirror: The Blessed Twin
By Joshua David Ling … Three Knights stood in her room spread out, / One grabbed her mouth from behind. / She tried to fight back as best she could, / But this plan was perfectly designed. / She suddenly felt tired and looked down to see / A needle in her arm.
Read MoreNegotiating Toilet Paper
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Dignity, like treaties, can be broken In many ways…
Read MoreGuardians Of Atlanta Episode 6 – Crusader: Leader Of The Guardians
By Joshua David Ling … A purple mist filled the room as William grabbed his sword Knox. / He stood by the doorway, fully prepared, because he had no locks.
Read MoreNo, Halloween Is Not Satanic
By Ian Wilson … If you read the title of this article, you already know the conclusion I’m coming to. Halloween has been celebrated in Western Christianity, particularly in Britain, for hundreds of years.
Read MoreSo Fast Thou Growest
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall … Happy children playing in a roadside ditch / Barefoot and laughing in shorts and tees / A boy grabbing up a frog to frighten the girls/ A girl sloshing the boys with a bucket of muck
Read MoreAppled Things
By Michael Stalcup … Glory be to God for appled things
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