This week, Brandon follows up with AJ about some of AJ's difficulties with St. Paul and others. How can we acknowledge not being drawn to, or even disagreeing with, certain Saints without dismissing them?
Episode 249 – Arguing With The Saints
Episode 247 – Difficulty With Saints
With Brandon out of commission, AJ does a little thinking out loud about how he sometimes struggles to incorporate the teachings of the Saints into his own life.
Being Ready and Waiting for My Own Vocation
Looking back on my discernment, I spent a lot of time bouncing back and forth between two different types of waiting. The big difference is whether I was being idle or active.
Another Year Bites the Dust – A School Year in Review
It's an odd time for a year in review piece, I know, but I'm a teacher, so I have extra opportunities built into my schedule to reflect. I'm less than a month away from this year's graduation, and it seems like a good time to look back.
Life Changes From Zero to One Hundred, Real Quick
Progress is rarely linear. I see it in my own life where I spent three years discerning priesthood and then tried to drop back into my "normal" life from before I went to seminary. With a long enough view, you can see the trend upwards, but in the moment, it seems like a series of quick starts and sudden stops.
What Is So Good About Good Friday Anyway?
There are a lot of great things about teaching a high school theology class, but one of my favorites is being able to hijack lessons with whatever I feel like talking about on a given day. During our last classes of Holy Week, since we don't have class on Good Friday, I decided we needed to take an hour and a half to reflect on what exactly we mean by calling Good Friday good.
Removing the Extra Masks Underneath the Masquerade
Throughout my maturing in adulthood, one of the big things that has been a defining trait in that progress has been the shedding of masks, or at the very least,... Continue Reading →