First, an update: Our subscription drive to launch Embodied Magazine kicked off fittingly on Friday, October 22, the feast day of St. John Paul II who gifted the world with the Theology of the Body. We are running social media ads and slowly gaining attention. But we need everyone interested in Embodied to FOLLOW us […]
We have the medicine the world craves
Our culture is devastatingly sick. The symptoms are clear: the breakdown of the family, the ridicule of virtue and the widespread embrace of relativism only scratch the surface. We’ve tried for decades to find easy fixes or to comfort ourselves by embracing the symptoms as “progress,” yet these band-aid solutions fail to address the root […]
The gift of receiving
I hate getting gifts. Giving gifts is great, but receiving them from others? No thanks. It’s not that I don’t want the gift itself. It’s just that I immediately feel guilty. I feel a strong urge to somehow make it up to the giver. No amount of thank-you’s are enough. Maybe offer them a hug? […]
Miss Rumphius
You can’t see the cover of this book, but it’s one of my favorites. Ever read “Miss Rumphius”? It’s a story about spreading beauty and a protagonist who embraces her vocation as a single woman. Miss Rumphius is determined to make the world more beautiful, and she does so by scattering lupine seeds along the […]
Given up for you
“Usually we give the baby three strikes, then we move on to other ways to get her out.” The midwife sat on the edge of my hospital bed, choosing her words carefully. “If you want to keep laboring, you can make that choice. She recovered this time. But she’s not tolerating labor well and I […]
The body reveals the soul
Wine, beer, tequila, vodka, whiskey … there is nothing I wouldn’t drink. I was a twenty-something living and partying in the hottest spots of San Francisco. “The world was mine” … until I realized it wasn’t. At all. My wounded soul was expressed in my lawless body. I was like a sad billboard I had […]
