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  • Culture of Death,  current events,  Evangelization,  Homosexuality,  Parenting

    A transitioning culture

    By Jenny Uebbing

    It started out as a little nugget of an idea, born from a series of quiet alarms going off in my head. Little things at first: a questionable book about penguins here, a little boy in a…

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  • abuse,  current events,  Homosexuality,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Pope Francis,  prayer,  Rome,  scandal,  Sex,  sin

    Disillusionment with the Church

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Remember believing in Santa? Shhhh, my kids still do. Maybe that’s a bad analogy. Maybe you never believed in Santa. What about this: maybe you believed your mom or your dad to be invincible. Kind of superhuman…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Culture of Death,  Homosexuality,  Sex,  sin,  Suffering

    When deferred maintenance hits the fan

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Yesterday our sewer main backed up. I happened upon the grisly scene when I entered the basement. I stood transfixed, an overflowing basket of laundry on my hip and a stench in my nose. At first I…

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  • About Me,  Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Homosexuality

    Love me enough not to leave me there

    By Jenny Uebbing

    My college years were wild. They could have been worse, but they could also have been a whole lot tamer, which is always thrown into stark relief when I swap stories with my FUS pedigreed husband and…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Homosexuality,  JPII,  mental health,  Parenting,  relativism,  Theology of the Body

    The beauty of gender: our differences aren’t scary, they’re beautiful (and essential)

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Male and female created he them; and blessed them… – Genesis 5:2 This morning I was strolling a leisurely stroll on the treadmill and enjoying 45 minutes of toddler downtime (thanks, Brandy in kids club) when my…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Homosexuality,  JPII,  relativism

    Conform or be destroyed {but be not afraid}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    No matter your political stripe, ethnicity, religion, or sexual proclivities, this one should concern you. It’s the story of a family. Of a couple who have built an empire together, and whose concepts and innovation have almost…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Evangelization,  Homosexuality,  relativism,  Theology of the Body

    Lost friendships, hard truths, and homosexuality

    By Jenny Uebbing

    This is a sensitive topic, and it’s a post I’ve been mulling over in my head for a long time. My closest male friend in college was gay, and I loved him. We spent many a lazy afternoon…

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  • Abortion,  Bioethics,  Catholic Spirituality,  Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Culture of Death,  euthanasia,  Evangelization,  Homosexuality,  politics,  Pro Life,  reality check,  relativism,  sin,  Suffering

    The power of language and the witness of words

    By Jenny Uebbing

    It is a curious time to be a Catholic Christian. (Is it ever not, though? I think maybe we all fall prey to a little good old fashioned chronological snobbery, whether or not we care to admit…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Culture of Death,  Homosexuality,  motherhood,  Parenting,  Sex,  Theology of the Body,  Women's Health,  Women's Rights

    About those bathrooms…

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I read a great piece this morning on the Target situation du jour from local writer and friend who explained with great compassion and insight why she and her family would still be patronizing the Bullseye, restroom…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Catholics Do What?,  Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Homosexuality,  sin

    Love, hate, and civil debate

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I will be the first to confess that I have not always been careful with my words. I’m a firstborn, a choleric, and an INTJ. I might be perfectly right about something, but I also might be a…

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