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Danielle Bean

Danielle Bean
Danielle Bean, a mother of eight, is Editorial Director of Faith & Family. She is author of My Cup of Tea, Mom to Mom, Day to Day, and most recently Small Steps for Catholic Moms. Though she once struggled to separate her life and her work, the two …
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Rachel Balducci

Rachel Balducci
Rachel Balducci is married to Paul and they are the parents of five lively boys and one precious baby girl. She is the author of How Do You Tuck In A Superhero?, and is a newspaper columnist for the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. For the past four years, she has …
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Lisa Hendey

Lisa Hendey
Lisa Hendey is the founder and editor of CatholicMom.com, a Catholic web site focusing on the Catholic faith, Catholic parenting and family life, and Catholic cultural topics. Most recently she has authored The Handbook for Catholic Moms. Lisa is also employed as webmaster for her parish web sites. …
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Arwen Mosher

Arwen Mosher
Arwen Mosher lives in southeastern Michigan with her husband Bryan and their young children Camilla and Blaise. She has a bachelor's degree in theology. She dreads laundry, craves sleep, loves to read novels and do logic puzzles, and can't live without tea. Her personal blog site is ABC Family. …
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Rebecca Teti

Rebecca Teti
Rebecca Teti is married to Dennis and has four children (3 boys, 1 girl) who -- like yours no doubt -- are pious and kind, gorgeous, and can spin flax into gold. A Washington, DC, native, she converted to Catholicism while an undergrad at the U. Dallas, where she double-majored in …
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Robyn Lee

Robyn Lee
Robyn Lee is the managing editor of Faith & Family magazine. She is (yikes!) an almost 30 year-old, single lady, living in Connecticut with her two cousins in a small bungalow-style kit house built by her great uncle in the 1950s. She also conveniently lives next door to her sister, brother-in-law …
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Hallie Lord

Hallie Lord
Hallie Lord married her dashing husband, Dan, in the fall of 2001 (the same year, coincidentally, that she joyfully converted to the Catholic faith). They now happily reside in the deep South with their two energetic boys and two very sassy girls. In her *ample* spare time, Hallie enjoys cheap wine, …
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Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr. John Bartunek, LC

Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, received his BA in History from Stanford University in 1990, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He comes from an evangelical Christian background and became a member of the Catholic Church in 1991. After college he worked as a high school history teacher, drama director, and …
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Guest Bloggers

Jeff Young

Jeff Young
Everyone is entitled to at least one good idea, right? Well, Jeff Young had his in October 2008 when he was struck dumb by the Catholic Foodie concept. It was a Reese's moment for him. Two great "tastes" that "taste" great together. Food and faith! Jeff produces the Catholic Foodie internet …
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Lynn Wehner

Lynn Wehner
As a wife and mother, writer and speaker, Lynn Wehner challenges others to see the blessings that flow when we struggle to say "Yes" to God’s call. Control freak extraordinaire, she is adept at informing God of her brilliant plans and then wondering why the heck they never turn out that …
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Win 'The Death Panels'

Your chance to win a great new Catholic novel

I’m a big fan of Michelle Buckman‘s, and I’m tickled to share one of her two new novels, The Death Panels, with everyone here.

Brace yourself before you pick this book up. It’s not light reading, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to already recommending it to everyone I know.

Death Panels builds a world that my children could live in, a world that’s not so far from possible. It takes the most dangerous... READ MORE 


Babies DVD Giveaway

Leave a comment here for your chance to win!

Lori Hadacek Chaplin offers a positive review of the newly-released Babies on DVD today.

The good news for Faith & Family Live readers is that we have a copy of this DVD to give away.

To enter for your chance to win, you need only leave a comment on this post with a valid email address (will not be published or shared) between now and Friday, October 8 at 3:00 pm EST. I will draw a random winner and announce it here on the blog over the weekend.

Good luck to you—and happy baby-watching!


The Ratatouille Wins

Congratulations to Laura from Sea Glass Hearts, who won a $25 gift certificate to the King Arthur Flour catalog for sharing a recipe using home grown tomatoes.

Thanks to everyone who entered, and Laura: enjoy!


Garden Giveaway

leave a recipe, enter to win

Update: Anyone with a tomato recipe can enter; no one will know your tomatoes aren’t homegrown smile

As promised, here’s your chance to show off your home-grown tomatoes and the wonderful things that can be done with them.

Share your pictures and recipes, and be automatically entered to win a $25 gift certificate to the King Arthur Flour catalog, courtesy of an anonymous giver.

To participate, just... READ MORE 


Juicy Bites From Shabby Apple

and a giveaway too!

Oh my goodness! Just when I thought I couldn’t love Shabby Apple any more they’ve gone and proved me wrong once again. They’ve designed a line of aprons! Oh, yes they have! (You remember what a sucker I am for aprons, don’t you?)

Not only have they created some of the cutest aprons my eyes have ever beheld, but they named their line Boysenberry Pie! How adorable is that? They’ve assured us that their... READ MORE 


Win Some Lovely Loveliness

enter our free giveaway to win handmade jewelry

Some lucky reader here at Faith & Family is going to win a $30 credit at Bridal Jewelry for You!

Catherine Beigel runs this gorgeous jewelry business through an online shop at Etsy:

She started Bridal Jewelry for You in the fall of 2009 after making jewelry and selling at assorted craft fairs around our area for over 3 years. She did her first set of bridal party jewelry in the spring of 2009 and... READ MORE 


Small Steps Winners

Drum roll please ...

The randomly chosen winners in our recent giveaway of signed copies of Small Steps for Catholic Moms are as follows:

Karina Murray: I would love to win a copy too!!!! Blessings!

Elaine Schienvar: I would love a copy as well!

Sara Rodgers: Sign me up!  I would love to get a copy!

Congrats to the winners and thank you to everyone who participated—it is so nice to see such great interest in the book!


Family Gatherings and Mother Mary

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This week on the podcast (click here to listen or click on the player above), Elizabeth Foss, Sarah Reinhard and I talk about the joys and stresses of welcoming extended family into our homes for family gatherings.  What tips do you have for Lisa to feed and shelter everyone, enjoy their company and not fall into the Martha vs. Mary syndrome. How do you avoid any family drama or differences (when... READ MORE 


We're Giving Away Signed Copies of Small Steps for Catholic Moms

Enter to win yours!

(This giveaway is now over and comments on this entry are closed. I will announce the winners on the main blog.)

This is going to be fun! Circle Press is giving away three copies of Small Steps for Catholic Moms: Think. Pray. Act. Every Day to three of our readers here at Faith & Family.

But here’s the most fun part—these three copies will be the only three of their kind because they will be signed... READ MORE 


Fr. Corapi Ticket Winners

The randomly selected winners in our Fr. Corapi ticket giveaway are as follows:

ErinM:

I have lots of family in Omaha and would love to make the trip!

Mary Harrell:

We love Fr. Corapi! Thank you for the chance to win tickets to see him.

Jennifer Mary:

I love Omaha and the people of Nebraska and we have wonderful friends, religious and lay there. It would be great to see Fr. Corapi there!

The winners... READ MORE 


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