I’m a native Atlantan living in the city of Atlanta. I know - there aren’t many of us left. Because the city has grown exponentially in the last few decades, I really can’t afford to venture too far out of my zip code if I want to have any chance of staying out of [...]
September 2, 2009
FOC (Friend of the Chicks) Allen Hunt, who hosts a local radio show on Saturday and Sunday nights on News/Talk 750 WSB, will launch The Allen Hunt Show nationally on 25 to 30 radio stations beginning Labor Day from 9 to midnight. The radio program, which will air Monday-Friday each week, focuses on issues where [...]
September 1, 2009
One of my recent projects has been listening to a 20-part series called Epic, which outlines the history of Christ and the Church. In the first 4 sessions, we covered Pentecost and Christ’s establishment of the Church, the first Church council, Gentile converts, the apostles and their disciples, the early Christians’ view of the [...]
August 31, 2009
Now that my kids are older and can swim on their on, my time in the pool is waning. However, I am still in the parenting stage where I have to be at the pool. This summer was particularly pleasing as I could find a chair in a quiet corner, soak in the sun and [...]
August 21, 2009
If Our Blessed Mother and the adolescent Jesus were on earth today, she definitely would have, at some point, fixed him a Coke. As chicks raised in the South, we both remember instances after injuries and illness when our mothers bandaged us up, sat us on the sofa, and handed us a Coke. Only the [...]
August 21, 2009
There’s an expression down South- maybe you’ve heard it. It goes like this: “Even a blind pig can find an acorn every once in a while.” Well sure enough, that is exactly what has happened! In an attempt to spend some quality vacation time at the beach in conjunction with visiting America’s oldest European settlement [...]
July 24, 2009
I have been reflecting on an event that I have attended for two years in a row now- the Eucharistic Congress in the Archdiocese of Atlanta. It is a time when thousands of Catholics gather near the airport for workshops, motivational speakers, and worship. The Eucharistic Congress that I attended in 2008 was my first [...]
July 24, 2009
Genuflecting, making the sign of the cross, bowing and kneeling are automatic for life long Catholics, but these gestures can be intimidating for the convert. Now that I have been Catholic for a little over a year, I rather enjoy entering into the physical nature of worship in the Mass. It is a concrete and [...]
June 22, 2009
What is a Southern Catholic Chick you may be asking? What does it mean to be truly Southern and faithfully Catholic? Well as recent converts who were received into full communion with the Catholic Church over a year ago, those are questions that we have been pondering lately. Born and raised in the South, we both [...]
September 7, 2009
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