"Prepare the way of the Lord!" In this powerful Advent episode, John Heinen, Devin Schadt, and Sam Guzman explore the unique spiritual landscape of the season, uncovering those mysterious spiritual déjà vu moments that can profoundly reshape your interior life. Discover the four critical elements that can transform your Advent—from confronting your past to navigating worldly distractions—and learn how these practices prepare your heart for Christ's coming, not just at Christmas but now and into the future. We also get to answer a question about atheist parents baptizing their children and Godparents from a brother in Ireland.

Many I know are concerned about the state of the world. And rightly so. Something significant is happening globally right now, and many ideas once deemed conspiratorial seem to be coming true. Fear of economic collapse, forced compliance to arbitrary mandates, food shortages, media propaganda, technological surveillance, and growing totalitarian overreach by world governments are […]

Some friends and I were smoking cigars and chatting on the porch of a Brooklyn house during a summer evening in 2010. One of the friends recommended that I read Dostoevsky’s the Brothers Karamazov. Education had taught me that the book was a classic. Experience had taught me that not all “classics” are all that […]

My heart is broken. Today, we lost one of the most beautiful churches in the world. For 800 years in stood as a transcendent reminder of God’s presence among men. Built to house priceless works of art, holy relics, and above all the sacraments, it was made by a world that no longer exists, the […]

Even a cursory glance at news headlines is enough to plunge one into anxiety. Mass-killings. Inflamed, hate-filled rhetoric. Mutual mockery. Revelings in perversion. Moral debauchery. Religious persecution. Terrorism. Scandals. These are the defining marks of our age, it seems. And that is not to mention the polarized cacophony of insults and vitriol that social media […]