Tag: Simcha Fisher
Simcha Fisher: This year, interview your parents
Even if you're not particularly close, learn from them while you still can
When I was in ninth grade, a teacher assigned the class to...
Simcha Fisher: Offer the gift of listening
Everyone who knows me knows I have a big mouth. I love to talk, I love to give advice, I love to leap in...
Simcha Fisher: Words about death
We buried my father this month. He and my mother had bought plain Trappist coffins for themselves years ago, to spare us children the...
The artificial and false emnity that hurts all of us
The irony is, when these great public victim vs victim debates rage, the people who argue the hardest often don't actually have any power to act.
Simcha Fisher: Three-year marriage preparation?
The Catholic Church in Spain is offering a new marriage preparation course. The startling part: It's three years long.
My first thought was that the...
Simcha Fisher: Those people who leave the Church over little things
People leave the Church for all kinds of reasons. Usually it's more than one reason; but sometimes people will be able to point to...
Simcha Fisher: No more jerks for Jesus
St Paul got knocked off his horse, and then he stopped persecuting Christians. Pretty dramatic. From that day forward, he stopped being the guy...
50 poems to print and hang on the wall
Every so often, I get a bee in my bonnet about poetry. When we homeschooled, we read and sometimes memorised poems. We've since moved...
Simcha Fisher: Have you heard the Maasai Creed?
Some weeks ago, I wrote on the question of whether, as an Episcopal priest asserted, the creed disrupts our flow of worship.
It sounded pretty...
Simcha Fisher: Catholicism without Christ
More and more secular women are discovering that they can use technology to track their natural biomarkers, helping them make informed choices about their...
Simcha Fisher: Slavery vs sacrifice
Lately, I've been thinking about the idea of slavery to sin, what it means, what it does.
Anyone who's read the Old or New Testament,...
Simcha Fisher: Savour some beauty for yourself; don’t put it all...
It's mid-summer, shading into late summer, where I live. This is the year I threw myself into planting flowers carefully, feeding and cultivating them,...
