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Young Adult Catholics: What if Jesus Hurts My Feelings?

  • Lacey Louwagie

Lacey Louwagie

11 Feb 2014

My latest post is up at Young Adult Catholics, which examines Jesus’ seemingly unnecessarily harsh response to a question Peter asks in Matthew 15; Jesus’ response: “Are you still so dull?” (Matthew 15:16).

And while we’re on the topic of Catholic writing, here are some reviews of Unruly Catholic Women Writers that just came out:

  • From the San Francisco Book Review
  • And Baltimore Magazine
Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, and What We Take From Flawed Creators

Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, and What We Take From Flawed Creators

Orson Scott Card. Marion Zimmer Bradley. J.K. Rowling. Neil Gaiman. This is my litany for the writers of my lifetime who have opened my heart, then broken it. Orson Scott Card made a passionate argument against xenophobia in his Ender series, then went on a homophobic crusade. Marion Zimmer
22 Sep 2025 7 min read
I'm Thinking in Novels Again

I'm Thinking in Novels Again

Back in the first ten years of the 2000s, I was trying to figure out the art of the short story. I mostly read novels, so I mostly “thought” in novels, too. All my story ideas came to me as novels. I read excellent short stories in my writing group
08 Sep 2025 4 min read
My Reading Life: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

My Reading Life: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

"You need to have your time to be wild to be better at domesticity." When I was in my twenties and years away from becoming a mother myself, a coworker who had just had a baby told me this about nursing: “It really reminds you that underneath it
10 Jul 2025 3 min read
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