A while back, Shanna Johnson from US Catholic Magazine got in touch with me about doing a profile. We spoke a bit a few months back, and I had not thought too much about it but then I see today […]
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Interview on This Is The Day on CatholicTV
This morning I was interviewed on This Is The Day, a general interest program on CatholicTV. Often Bishop Robert Reed is on the show, but he was not today.? Nonetheless, I think it was a good interview with the two […]
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VIDEO: The Autism Prayer Hump
Autistics pray differently and experience God differently. The classical spiritual authors talk of different stages. I think our stages are slightly different: the first parts can be more difficult for us, while the latter parts can be more challenging. This is what I call the autism prayer hump. I explain why this is and how our psychology affects our prayer in this video.
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Order My Book
After a long time of preparation, you can finally pre-order my Book, God Loves the Autistic Mind: Prayer Guide for Those on the Spectrum and Those Who Love Us. Update: I have added the recently published audiobook to the end […]
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Fort Wayne – South Bend Profiles Fr. Matthew Schneider, LC
I did an interview a few weeks ago with Jennifer Barton, who works at Today’s Catholic, the diocesan paper for the Diocese of Fort Wayne – South Bend, Indiana. It was published last week and I think she did a […]
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16 Last-Minute Sacrifices for Lent
All of us adult Catholics probably now have a habit of giving up something for Lent or doing something extra to grow spiritually. We should offer a little sacrifice to unite ourselves with Jesus and to prepare for Holy Week. […]
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Pray a Chotki for Peace in Ukraine
With Russia invading Ukraine, we see a lot of people playing for peace. I think we should pray for peace. I want to write briefly about praying the chotki as a way to unite ourselves with Ukrainian Catholics. Most of […]
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Top 10 Posts of 2021
Here are the top-10 most viewed posts I wrote in 2021. There seem to be a lot of posts on vaccines, with posts on Pope Francis coming in second. A few are completely unrelated to those two themes like the […]
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Omicron Turned My Christmas Plans Upside Down
For the second year in a row, my Christmas plans got changed at the last minute. Last year, I started feeling sick the evening of the 21st and got a positive COVID test on the 24th. (It was not fun […]
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One disadvantage of moving more away from Patheos is that I lost my regular email list. If you want to keep up with me, you’ll need to subscribe to my weekly newsletter which should come out on Monday or Tuesday […]
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