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HIS361 – Witchcraft and Heresy Final Essay One of the most interesting questions raised for me in this course is what makes witchcraft authentic. As a history student, my instinct is to look backward. Where did a tradition come from? How old is it? Can its claims about itself be supported by historical evidence? What…
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These are my notes for learning the Rosary. It’s messy, but it helped to make a diagram.
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Man, I Feel Like a Woman Today. I’m in the Xennial generation—the microgeneration that saw streetlights signal dinnertime just as The Oregon Trail came into our computer vans. We have the strength and blase of our Gen X sisters and the emotional intelligence of the elder Millennials. We don’t complain. We know your weak spots.…
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I used to think I rejected God. But, looking back, it wasn’t God I was rejecting at all. I was rejecting an idea that I had made up in my head based on untruths I told myself out of loneliness. When I was a little girl and starting to make sense of the world, I…
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I wish someone had told me this when I was thirty. I would have been old enough to know there was necessary work to be respectable and elegant, the way I envisioned I would have been by that age. At thirty, I was someone I couldn’t recognize. I was surviving in ways that didn’t make…
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The family business of growing old.
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I am 100% against body negativity, but it was time for me to have a come-to-Jesus meeting with my cat, Dolly Parton. Her bikini belly has officially graduated into a full-blown Buddha belly, and the last thing I need is to get cat-mom shamed for harboring a feline who looks like she’s smuggling a Christmas…
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However, these different experiences must not overshadow the important similarities. All three believed that history had meaning beyond current conditions and events, and that God was present and active in human affairs. Yet, each interpreted divine providence according to their unique circumstances.
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After decades of skepticism, New Age spirituality, loneliness, and self-destruction, I found peace, community, and faith at 47 through the Catholic Church.
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Original photograph by The Spinster Woolgar. Enhanced with AI.
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