Agnieszka Ruck is a freelance writer and editor who loves telling stories that inspire or encourage. Her most frequent audience is her nerdy husband and their three wild young children.
What we read can have an impact on how we see the world - but it is the Truth of scripture that is the most vital reading of all.
We have a frightfully bothersome chestnut tree hanging over our backyard. Every year, around late summertime, it drops hard, spiky, and inedible nut shells the size of golf balls. We … Continued
I thought I had captured the sunshine and planted it in my garden. This spring, when gardens everywhere were filled with young plants and the promise of sweet snap peas … Continued
There they sat on a little bench at the back of the church: an elderly couple holding hands, her back bent and the other hand on a cane that she … Continued
My three young children and I were out for a walk when the handlebar of my four-year-old’s scooter clipped a shrub and she went flying onto the pavement. Her hands … Continued
With three kids aged four and under, we are the family that is squeezing in late and, despite our best efforts, not subtle about it. We have books, markers, and … Continued
If you have ever fed multiple children under the age of two, you can visualize the mess around our family table at breakfast time. My twin toddlers will be perched … Continued
An intriguing dialogue about “Catholic” artificial intelligence is going on right now. I first came across it last month when New Polity magazine editor Marc Barnes published an article called … Continued
The West isn’t particularly baby-positive right now. “For the past 70 years, our culture has served young women a steady diet of messages potent enough to make some women question … Continued
When my husband and I started thinking about having our second child, I had plenty of ideas about how to do a better job the second time around. We already … Continued