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The genesis of Virtue Ministry

30/08/2022

As time goes on, so many of the pieces come together. It’s only in retrospect that I can see just how long God has been working in my heart and in my life to bring VM here. For the sake of keeping it brief here is the logistical aspect of […]

The Harm of Porn & the Wound of Beauty

09/08/2022

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Stina and Fr Sean in an episode on the various dimensions of pornography. In that interview, a significant portion of our discussion focused on a tendency within our culture to reduce human persons to abstract characteristics on a list. Long after […]

Truth, What Is That?

26/07/2022

To discover what is true is something ingrained in our human nature. We all want to learn. From the moment we can talk, we ask, “Why?”. Any parent of a young child can tell you the list of questions they receive a day is endless. The questions never stop… and […]

Mini-Retreat Guide

18/07/2022

A mini-retreat guide to reboot the second half of the year and finish strong

A Call to Arms

12/07/2022

It is easy to look around at our world today and say “What a mess! Has there ever been a time more evil than this? Where is God in this world?” As a young person, I hear these thoughts in the comments of many older people who, I know, are […]

That feeling of shame … ouch

21/06/2022

I think we’ve all been there — we’ve tucked ourselves into bed, the light is off, we might be drifting off to sleep… WHAM. Out of nowhere, we suddenly vividly recall some memory of the highest embarrassment, and lying in the dark, reliving our shame. Everyone has lived through embarrassing […]

Speak with Conviction

14/06/2022

Doing the right thing is often a fine balance between speaking up and saying nothing at all. For some, both are a real struggle. But for different temperaments, one may be a lot harder than the other. The truth is, both can be valuable virtuous acts; what we need is […]

Why do fairy tales end at marriage?

31/05/2022

There is a reason that fairy tales end with the wedding and it’s not because they ‘lived happily ever after.’ Our journey to matrimony may be full of romance, dancing at balls, chivalric gestures and dreams of a better life but marriage itself is no enchanted existence in a castle […]

7 reasons you should reconsider seeing that virtuous girl

17/05/2022

Dating and a life of virtue do not exactly go hand in hand. From the girl’s point of view the story often goes a little like this: You meet a guy and he’s nice. He’s handsome and charming. You agree to go out for coffee or dinner. But you know […]

Courage, Dear Heart

03/05/2022

If I asked you to think about a character from a story who sought courage, perhaps a most obvious answer is the Lion in the Wizard of Oz. It was a very clever move by the author of the book – portraying the animal kingdom’s fiercest animal as a timid […]

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