Columnists
Calah Alexander

A Reasonable Faith

This has been big news elsewhere in the internets this week, but I haven’t yet seen it mentioned here at Ignitum Today. One of my

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Mercy and Killing
Calah Alexander

Freedom of Choice

I’ve been mulling over the idea of mercy killing and euthanasia for three days now, wondering what to write about, wondering what I thought about

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Columnists
Calah Alexander

Pietas

On Tuesday, my son Liam had an allergic reaction to a varicella vaccine. In the span of time it took me to recognize that he

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Catholic Education
Calah Alexander

Capital-T Truth

A few years ago, the Ogre and I attended an Interdisciplinary Studies conference at the University of Tulsa. At the time, the Ogre was wrapping

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Columnists
Calah Alexander

Mercy

Recently, our house has been ringing with the wails of a 3-year-old girl. Morning, afternoon, and evening, Charlotte can usually be found sitting in a

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Columnists
Calah Alexander

Believing in Santa

About this time of year, moms in all corners of the blogosphere pull out their boxing gloves and prepare to battle to the death to

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Re-Thinking "CathDudes"

Unless I missed something, this type of post has not yet been taken up here at Virtuous Pla.net. But I say, what good is having

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Sacraments
Calah Alexander

The Power of the Priesthood

Growing up a non-Catholic in a very anti-Catholic South made for some strange opinions about Catholicism. I remember writing a poem once in junior high

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Married Life
Calah Alexander

Full Fathom Five

Those of you who are familiar with my blog know that my husband and I entered upon our journey toward a sacramental union on a

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Family
Calah Alexander

Indecision, Choreographed

  My middle child, Charlotte, is two-and-a-half. In fact, she may be the most two-and-a-half two-and-a-half year old I think I’ve ever encountered. Among her

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