Mary McWilliams grew her writing roots in community journalism as a beat reporter, columnist, features and business writer and editor. She later managed in-house communications for faith-based non-profits. Her short stories center around introspective characters and their Jesus-led, “Come, follow me” moments. She is currently working on a short fiction series collectively known as The Women of Jesus, about well-known women of the Bible who embraced the Good News of the Lord and went on to tell others.
Writer Mary McWilliams reflects upon ways to filter out the noise of everyday life and to focus on the inner silence that helps us to hear the voice of God.
Need a miracle? Writer Mary McWilliams reviews The Miracle Book: A
Simple Guide to Asking for the Impossible by Anthony DeStefano.
For CWG’s anthology on pilgrimage, Author Mary McWilliams offers a
reflection on the inspiration for her story, “The Day the Dome Dropped on My Head”
and how it is NOT like its campy title.
Author Mary McWilliams shares a Thanksgiving event rooted in Scripture.
Author Mary McWilliams proposes that St. Veronica, who in her compassion to offer comfort to Jesus Christ on the way to the cross captured the “true image,” be considered as the patron saint of family caregivers.
Columnist Mary McWilliams recommends a summer start of “in-a-year” podcasts and their corresponding books to dive into the messages of Catholic visionaries.
Writer Mary McWilliams reviews the Bible-based book, Abundantly Well by Shemane Nugent.
Writer Mary McWilliams reviews an author’s first title that links personalities of some beloved saints to our own … and helps to decipher our mannerisms and those of others.
No one writes a better love story than God. In this review of Courtship of the Saints: How the Saints Met Their Spouses, Mary McWilliams details how the book’s author, Patrick O’Hearn, sets out to prove it.
God selects a special name for each one of His children, unknown to us in this lifetime, but reflecting His mission for us. It presents a puzzlement for us, but looking to the past for insight can help us reflect upon our path.
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