Chris Williston
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About Chris Williston
Husband. Dad. Catholic. Blogger. Living out my call to holiness in the vocation of marriage and in service to the Catholic Church. @cwillistonvi Vice-President, Co-Founder of ACNM
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  • 16 May 2013
    The Best Me
    Last week marked the premature end of an all-too-short era in the Williston house when, after a remarkable temper tantrum by my son, Lincoln, we decided to sell the Wii and Xbox on Craigslist. It all started, as most family crises do, with a father/son matchup in Mario Super Sluggers,...
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  • 02 May 2013
    Superman and Catholic Spirituality
    This Friday, millions of Americans will flock to theaters to see Iron Man 3, the latest expansion of the Marvel universe series of films.  Early reviews are good and I’ll likely go see it, even after the failure that was Iron Man 2.  But, honestly, you can have Tony Stark....
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  • 18 Apr 2013
    No, no, no
    All week long I’ve been trying to write about Boston, attempting to write some words of sense that are born out of a senseless situation. When sidewalks are awash with blood, an eight year old boy, among others, is dead, and limbs are lying on the ground, there is no...
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  • 04 Apr 2013
    The Audacity of Pope Francis
    On Good Friday morning last week, I received this text message from a friend, “Your new Pope is all kinds of awesome.” You can probably derive from the message that my friend is not Catholic.  He read in the news about Pope Francis’s Holy Thursday visit to wash the feet...
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  • 21 Mar 2013
    Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience – A Review
    There are no bounds to Justin Timberlake’s celebrity. Musician, movie star, and all around charismatic figure, JT (as I’ll affectionately call him) had fans running around Austin last week at SXSW with the mere suggestion that he MIGHT make a surprise appearance. While his star has certainly risen over the...
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  • 14 Mar 2013
    Thoughts on a new Pope
    Over the last 24 hours, I’ve been asked quite a bit what I think about the new Pope. Honestly, I’ve been so busy with other things that writing these words are the first opportunity I’ve had to really process the election of Pope Francis. So… what do I think? On...
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  • 20 Feb 2013
    The Sound of Jesus Coming
    I’ve often wished that I could peek into the first century world to experience the sights and sounds of following Jesus.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the gospels but I wish that one of the writers had composed their narrative with all of the descriptions of a novel.  As...
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  • 06 Feb 2013
    Catholic Time Travel 101
    The call came in at 1:20p.m. on a Tuesday. My professional association had run a nice “member spotlight” on me in its magazine.  It wasn’t much, just a few pictures of me and my family and a nice questionnaire about my career and personal interests. So, when a colleague called...
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  • 23 Jan 2013
    Lance Armstrong and the Art of Confession
      When is a confession not “good enough?” The question itself challenges my Catholic sensibilities.  I like to think that all confession is valid for the expiation of sin.  However, after watching Lance Armstrong in the public confessional of Oprah Winfrey’s couch last week, I suddenly have my doubts. Please...
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  • 09 Jan 2013
    Christmas Unchained
    There was a time when I wouldn’t dare miss a new Quentin Tarantino film. I was in middle school when Pulp Fiction was released in theatres and,  as a teenage boy, I was fascinated by Tarantino’s violent, vulgar and verbose underground universe.  Soon after, I gorged myself on the complete...
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  • 09 Nov 2012
    Brief thoughts from a pilgrim
    With just over 30 hours left in our pilgrimage before heading to the airport, I plan for this to be the last update that I’ll provide from the road before coming home. We returned from Assisi today, the details of which I’ll reserve for another time. It was moving and...
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  • 08 Nov 2012
    On to Assisi!
    Today was a day of coalescence. Our time in Italy is drawing to a close and, as it does, I think each man in our small band of pilgrims is reflecting on everything that we’ve seen and experienced. This morning we celebrated Mass at the altar of St. Michael the...
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