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Now Discern This: To Flourish and Flutter

The monarch butterfly was little more than a splash of orange across the yawning chasm of blacktop parking lot. It’s…

Now Discern This: Mary Says to Pray Like A Champion

In this week’s Now Discern This, Eric Clayton reflects on a visit to the shrine of Our Lady of Champion,…

Now Discern This: Goats on the Roof

In Door County, Wisconsin, nestled within Sister Bay and overlooking a smaller section of Lake Michigan sits a popular Swedish…

Now Discern This: What My Family Learned from “My Neighbor Totoro”

My family and I watched the 1988 film “My Neighbor Totoro” — one of the most beloved stories from renowned…

Now Discern This: The LEGO Pieces of Life

I find myself of two minds concerning the mounds of LEGO pieces strewn about my office floor. On the one…

Now Discern This: Mission Sustains the Work

I spent the better part of last week in New Orleans. The city’s Jesuit university — Loyola University New Orleans…

Now Discern This: What I Learned at Baltimore’s Mass for Peace and Justice

The bells tolled from Baltimore’s mother church, the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, late on a Wednesday in mid-June, inviting…

Now Discern This: Let Me Look At That For You

My sister-in-law is a professional photographer — and a very good one at that. When she visits our home, I…

Now Discern This: How Lifting Labels Changes Lives in Baltimore

Lives change when labels are lifted at this innovative Baltimore-based startup….

Now Discern This: Joy on the Jumbotron

This past weekend was a big one at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. After more than seven innings of jumping…

Now Discern This: Pope Leo XIV and the Legacy of Peace

When I heard he took the name Leo, I couldn’t help but grin. The last Pope Leo gave us the…

Now Discern This: What I Learned at Homeboy Industries

“Cura personalis” means paying attention to body language….

Now Discern This

Now Discern This Archives

Now Discern This: To Flourish and Flutter

Now Discern This: Mary Says to Pray Like A Champion

Now Discern This: Goats on the Roof

Now Discern This: What My Family Learned from “My Neighbor Totoro”

Now Discern This: The LEGO Pieces of Life

Now Discern This: Mission Sustains the Work

Now Discern This: What I Learned at Baltimore’s Mass for Peace and Justice

Now Discern This: Let Me Look At That For You

Now Discern This: How Lifting Labels Changes Lives in Baltimore

Now Discern This: Joy on the Jumbotron

Now Discern This: Pope Leo XIV and the Legacy of Peace

Now Discern This: What I Learned at Homeboy Industries

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