My first blog post ever published was in 2012. I was fresh out of grad school and teaching political science as a 26-year-old adjunct instructor at a community college in my hometown in West Michigan. Believe it or not, my profile on RateMyProfessor is still active. I graduated from Loyola University Chicago in the Spring of 2011 after working as an intern for the Archdiocese of Chicago under Francis Cardinal George. At the time, I considered myself a typical conservative Catholic who admired Benedict XVI and George Weigel. In June of that year, I wrote an article on the “rise of anti-Catholicism” in response to President Obama’s HHS contraception mandate. I sent it, unsolicited to CatholicVote.org (CV) thinking it would be rejected. It wasn’t. They enjoyed it so much that I was invited to write for them on a part-time basis. Over the next 20 months, I blogged about cultural issues like homosexual “marriage,” abortion laws, and media bias.

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