Kechi Ladapo

My wish for you is that you continue, continue to be who and how you are,

to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.

Most spiritual gifts, I think, are natural abilities sanctified and harnessed by God-given desire,

I now think of myself as a writer. I didn't realize it on my own though. It was after Sula was published; I was talking to my editor (Robert Gottlieb of Knopf) one day, and he said, "This is what you are going to be when you grow up. This is it." I said, "A writer?" He said, "That's right. Of all those other little things you do, this is it. This... See more

We catechize because we must. For catechesis is both a very biblical idea and a faithful practice

of the church through the ages. Where wise catechesis has flourished, the church has flourished. Where it has been neglected, the church has floundered. We catechize in obedience to the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ and in imitation of the

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“I am searching for that which is real of my heart, and which when completed I can stand humble to one side of and say: ‘This is it, this is how I feel, this is my honest interpretation of the world; this is not influenced by money, or trickery, or pressure...except the pressure of my soul.’”