Jen: Amateur Catholic

I'd love a cool button for my blog, but I don't think I can make any claims about being ready for the B-team. If you're the JV, I'm still with the freshman. I think y'all are cool, so I follow you around, but I'm not ready for the medium-time.

Maybe it's because I'm trying to do my job just a little bit more than barely. (Um, no, not that.)

Maybe it's because I don't want to be an amateur apologist. (Nope, not that either.)

Maybe it's because I'm not a committed Catholic. (Again, not true. I should definitely be committed.)

So here's my story. I'm Jen, and I'm a Catholic. (And a feminist. And an academic. And a mother of three.) Once, a long, long, long time ago, I got paid for an article in America . (Hey now, they publish orthodox stuff, too.) And then I finished my Ph.D., had two more kids, and took a tenure-track job at a Jesuit Catholic university in St. Louis. (Hey, they may host the Vagina Monologues, but don't go and judge the book by its...um....cover.) Now I'm trying to keep my head above water, and I am getting more amateurish every day.

But hopefully, somewhere I'll be Catholic enough to raise my kids to know, love, and serve Jesus. To help my husband get to heaven. And to convince my students that thinking people really can be practicing Catholics who follow the Magisterium.

But my blog is not going to be the thing that does it.

Can I have a button anyway?

Jen - PopMeyer Musings

Yepp, you can have the button, Jen. You're in. Now, we like having underclassmen toadies around to puff up our fragile egos, but in reality I don't think you're that. You're definitely B-Team material. Welcome aboard and why don't ya bring your bishop along with you...
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