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3 Lessons and 2 Tips from David Calavitta

Ace3 Lessons and 2 Tips is a series of interviews in which some of my favorite people (and probably some of yours) share three lessons they’ve learned by being married, plus two tips for single people.

This edition features David Calavitta, a graphic designer for Life Teen and a Catholic speaker who has worked in youth ministry since the year 2000, when he was 19.

David is a “good ol’ fashioned, clean-cut, tattooed, Catholic” who loves Christ and His Church, and his wife, Brittany. They met in the Life Teen ministry at their parish while they were teens in the program. They dated on and off until David was in his early 20s, and “God made it mercifully clear that we were supposed to be together. (Huge thanks to Him for that! And to my wife for being ok with that.)”

David is gracious to share three lessons and two tips with us today: Continue reading “3 Lessons and 2 Tips from David Calavitta”

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3 Lessons and 2 Tips from Bill Donaghy

3 Lessons and 2 Tips is a series of interviews in which some of my favorite people (and probably some of yours) share three lessons they’ve learned by being married, plus two tips for single people.

This edition features Bill Donaghy, the curriculum specialist at the Theology of the Body Institute whose son once called me “G-ma.” (which is definitely short for grandma. Long story.)

Bill also was the instructor of the Theology of the Body I: Head and Heart Immersion Course I took in the summer of 2013. The course, which is an introduction to St. JP2’s Theology of the Body, is a.k.a. one of the best weeks of my entire life.

I’m grateful for the growth experience he and his course helped facilitate and for his willingness to share three lessons and two tips with us: Continue reading “3 Lessons and 2 Tips from Bill Donaghy”

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What every human needs to know about love, marriage, and sex.

The best book I ever have read is Love and Responsibility by Karol Wojtyla, a.k.a. St. John Paul II before he was pope. It is hundreds of pages of exactly what all of us need to know. But it is tragic, because it is hundreds of pages that most of us haven’t read.

Richard Spinello, author of Understanding Love and Responsibility, agrees: The “neglect of this extraordinary book is unfortunate,” he writes, about Wojtyla’s book. “Those who do take up the challenge of carefully reading Love and Responsibility will be amply rewarded.”

Believe me when I say he kids you not. Continue reading “What every human needs to know about love, marriage, and sex.”

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3 Lessons and 2 Tips From Jennifer Fulwiler

jennifer-fulwiler-bio-thumbnail3 Lessons and 2 Tips is a series of interviews in which some of my favorite people (and probably some of yours) share three lessons they’ve learned by being married, plus two tips for single people.

This edition features Jen Fulwiler, author of Something Other than God and blogger at conversiondiary.com.

She grew up atheist and converted to Catholicism, and has appeared on the TV shows Fox and Friends, Huffington Post Live, The Journey Home, Life on the Rock, and The Choices We Face.

Jen is mom to six kids under 10 and her favorite genres of music are Gregorian chant and gangsta rap. She is gracious to offer three lessons and two tips to us today: Continue reading “3 Lessons and 2 Tips From Jennifer Fulwiler”

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3 Lessons and 2 Tips from Leah Darrow

3 Lessons and 2 Tips is a series of interviews in which some of my favorite people (and probably some of yours) share three lessons they’ve learned by being married, plus two tips for single people.

This edition features Leah Darrow, a wife, mom, author, speaker, fashionista and broadway musical enthusiast I first met when she and her husband Ricky and I took a class together last summer at the Theology of the Body Institute.

Leah enjoys engaging culture from a Catholic perspective and challenges people to reclaim love and beauty from a society that has distorted both. She hopes to one day swim with orcas or catch the first sighting of bigfoot, whichever comes first. Continue reading “3 Lessons and 2 Tips from Leah Darrow”