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June 2012

June 11, 2012

How to Have a Religious Experience

If you belong to any religion besides Judaism or Christianity, having a religious experience is...

January 2012

January 26, 2012

How To Love Your Neighbor

Our culture is drunk with a compassion for humanity. This would be fine and dandy...

January 10, 2012

How Descartes Ruined Sex

This is a fantastic moment to be a teenage boy. Briefly recalling your freshman year...

January 04, 2012

How (And Why) To Smoke a Pipe

I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had...

December 2011

December 20, 2011

How To Win an Argument With a Catholic

In the delightfully crunchy world of debate, it seems apparent to me that the closer...

November 2011

November 04, 2011

How To Convert

The common view of religious conversion seems to be this: There are many ways one...

August 2011

August 27, 2011

How To Report On the Catholic Church

Now between the Pope not approving the use of condoms, the Bishops not saying that...

July 2011

July 25, 2011

How To Be Free

"I dare say that when I get out of this bed I shall do some...

July 02, 2011

How To Be Good

(Disclaimers: stream-of-consciousness, potentially loaded with projections of personal problems as absolutes, too wordy, might be...

June 2011

June 20, 2011

How To Read Blogs

Rule Number One: Use your eyeballs. Sorry I haven't p-p-p-posted in like chika-chika-4 days. I have...

March 2011

March 01, 2011

How Not To Have Sex

There are times when I look and survey the modern world and understand the appeal....