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Author Archives: Debbie Herbeck

Building Friendships Into Community

June 12, 2017

This post is by Rachel Herbeck As a community of missionary disciples, we aren’t just a community when we gather at a Disciples Night, or when we are with a certain group of people, or attending an event. We are …

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Enough is Enough

June 6, 2017

I’m pretty certain that in my very tiny corner of the world, everyone knows that I love St. Mother Teresa and aspire to be her one day. I talk about her, read her books, and quote her often; I’ve hung …

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What’s A Girl To Do?

August 23, 2016

By Debbie Herbeck This post is a response to a particular segment of Joey’s recent blog post entitled Women > Men: “How many women in parish life look around and see either a visible absence of strong men and, if …

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Baptism: The Gift of the Kingdom

May 18, 2016

By Debbie Herbeck This article originally appeared on Steubenville Fuel. Click here for the original article and to learn more about the Steubenville conferences. My new grandson will be baptized next week and he will be “born again to a …

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The Sweet Smell of Garbage

January 16, 2015

“It’s weird but I didn’t really notice the garbage. It felt so normal, so familiar, so much like home.” Nineteen of us just returned from a week-long mission in Mexico City. We spent …

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Skipping Stones—Mastering the Art of Living on the Surface

January 7, 2015

I remember as a kid standing at the river’s edge trying to master the art of skipping stones. I hunted for smooth, flat stones and then, with a snap of my wrist, I sent each one flying over the surface …

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Upwardly Mobile

October 11, 2014

By Debbie Herbeck We think we can have it all. And we want it now. Thanks to high speed Internet, smart phones, social media, seemingly limitless credit and the ethos of the American Dream, we can acquire, possess, and accumulate …

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