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Meet the Faith & Family bloggers. We invite you to join us in encouraging and helping the Faith & Family community grow in faith!

Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is editor-in-chief of Catholic Digest and Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com and the author of A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms and The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also enjoys speaking around the country, is employed as webmaster for her parish web sites and spends time on various …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their 4-year-old daughter, 2-year-old son, and twin boys born May 2011. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is a 30-something, single lady, living in Connecticut in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law and six kids ... and two doors down are her parents. She received her undergraduate degree from …
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DariaSockey

DariaSockey
Daria Sockey is a freelance writer and veteran of the large family/homeschooling scene. She recently returned home from a three-year experiment in full time outside employment. (Hallelujah!) Daria authored several of the original Faith&Life Catechetical Series student texts (Ignatius Press), and is currently a Senior Writer for Faith&Family magazine. A latecomer …
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Guest Bloggers

Kate Lloyd

Kate Lloyd
Kate Lloyd is a rising senior, and a political science major at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. While not in school, she lives in Whitehall PA, with her mom, dad, five sisters and little brother. She needs someone to write a piece about how it's possible to …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Special Celebrations and Sharing Prayer

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This week on the Faith & Family Live Cast (click here to listen or click on the player above), Elizabeth, Rebecca and I share some commiseration on the busyness of so many wonderful Spring celebrations. We share ideas for surviving and flourishing as a family when multiple “moments in the sun” happen one right on top of the next. How does your family keep each celebration special and sacred, while... READ MORE 


What Moms Want

Here's your chance - how can your parish better support you?

Next Monday, I have the pleasure of providing a webinar called Catholic Moms: Building and Sustaining Small Groups to Support the Vocation of Motherhood aimed at sharing perspectives on what we parents—and especially we moms—“want” from our parishes.  I would love it if this team of experts could help me prepare my “homework” by pondering and commenting on the following questions:

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What Bible Version Do You Use?

A new revision of the NIV is in the works...

An article at Catholic News Agency today announced that biblical scholars are at work on a new version of the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, to be released in 2010.  You may know the NIV as one of the most popular Bible translations among Protestants. 

The goal of this revision seems to be making the NIV more user friendly:

“Keith Danby, Global President and CEO of Biblica, said the... READ MORE 


Jesus in the House

Catholic author Allan Wright looks at the stories of Christ's presence in the home.

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This week’s podcast (click here to listen or click on the player above) brings two interviews that will introduce you to two great books and a super family movie.

Allan Wright is the author of Jesus in the House: Gospel Reflections on Christ’s Presence in the Home and Silent Witnesses in the Gospels : Bible Bystanders and Their Stories.  With his books, Allan opens readers’ hearts to the stories of... READ MORE 


Do Catholic Kids and Christian Bible Study Mix?

Should our "tweens" participate in Bible Study at non-Catholic churches?

This week, I received the following question from a caring, well-intentioned father.  My immediate response to him included my suggestion that he schedule a meeting with his pastor and his son’s Director of Religious Education, and contained information regarding the difference between Catholic and Protestant bibles. 

I wanted to open the topic up to conversation here and invite your compassionate... READ MORE 


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