Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust
Christopher Heffron
June 25, 2024
Journalist, historian, and host Garrett Graff has made our country’s gun fixation the focus of the third season of his celebrated podcast, Long Shadow.
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Christopher Heffron is the editorial director at Franciscan Media.
St. Joseph, Model for Fathers
Christopher Heffron
June 16, 2024
Share today’s prayer with a father who emulates the same characteristics as St. Joseph. A prayerful word of thanks is sometimes the best present.
‘Peace to This House’
Christopher Heffron
May 24, 2024
Francis of Assisi had rather specific instructions for how his brothers should go about their lives.
I’d Like to Say: We Need to Stop ‘Othering’
Christopher Heffron
May 24, 2024
The time-honored practice of othering those who differ from us is eating away at our Christian call to love one another.
Saint Anthony Is Second to Nobody
Christopher Heffron
May 24, 2024
Saint Anthony often plays for second with his brother, Saint Francis. But we love them both equally.
My Own Spring Awakening
Christopher Heffron
April 1, 2024
If winter is the time for stillness and introspection, spring is the season for awakening—for stretching our legs and exploring the world.
God Is the Artist
Christopher Heffron
March 25, 2024
Though St. Francis of Assisi was, to his core, an institutional Catholic, he found God everywhere, not just under the roof of a church.