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November 2017

November 07, 2017

The One Question I Always Get

Whenever I do a presentation, there is one old and familiar question that I can...

November 02, 2017

Nightmare on Estrogen Street: Frequently Unanswered Questions about NFP Chapter 1

Why NFP and Why not ABC? I want to approach this in terms of my...

October 2017

October 26, 2017

Traditional Marriage: A Cure For Rape Culture?

There’s been a lot of talk over the last week or so about the ethics...

October 23, 2017

A Modest Proposal: On Rape Prevention

One of the most frustrating things about discussing rape prevention is that there is often...

October 13, 2017

Do We Really Need Another Book About NFP?

A little over a year ago, I posted on my blog that I was thinking...

October 12, 2017

Frequently Unanswered Questions About Natural Family Planning

I've had various comments, here and on FaceBook, that basically involve folks asking questions or...

October 11, 2017

That Long Awaited NFP Book

I've been promising forever to write a book about NFP. It got massively derailed a...

October 10, 2017

A Conservative Journalist, a Junior Hockey Star and an Otherkin Walk into a Talent Agent’s Office: I review ‘Amends’

Eve Tushnet's first novel, Amends, is about a group of quirky alcoholics who get recruited...

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Frog Out of Water

I was preparing to give a short talk on gender dysphoria, and was trying to...

September 16, 2017

Too Tired to Pray

One thing that you quickly find if you're trying to do ministry on the margins...

September 15, 2017

Mommy Wars vs. Culture Wars Fight

There are a large number of people who avoid church for exactly the same reason...

September 07, 2017

In the Beginning there were the Waters

In the Beginning there were the waters. Every mythology agrees on this. Before the God...

September 06, 2017

The Alpha-Male Heresy

What is it about current right-wing Catholic culture that makes it acceptable for a man...

August 2017

August 26, 2017

Is Diversity Training to Blame for the Rise of the Alt-Right?

Back when I was in school, one of the routine features of our social sciences...

August 25, 2017

No, Matt Walsh, Parents are Not Making Their Kids Trans

So apparently right-wing Christianity learned its lesson from the complete pastoral debacle of the ex-gay...

August 24, 2017

Poverty Is Not What Austin Ruse Wants You to Think It Is

The poor of America are living large off the public purse: they own plasma TVs...

August 17, 2017

Addicted to Patriarchy: Infallibility IV

I mentioned yesterday that I see the relationship between the Catholic laity and the hierarchy...

August 16, 2017

The Fractal Church: Infallibility Part III

I promised that I would talk about the difference between infallibility and authority, and why...

August 07, 2017

Pope to King 4: Infallibility Part II

Last time I talked about the backdrop for my concerns about infallibility. Today, I want...

August 05, 2017

How Many Theologians Does it Take To Define Infallibility?

I mentioned earlier that one of the issues I've been grappling with is the question...

August 01, 2017

Crisis of Faith Part II: Off Key and Out of Tune

So I tweeted recently that I have semi-resolved my crisis and I'm staying Catholic, at...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

A Painfully Familiar Reason for Using NFP

So it's NFP awareness week, and nothing will do a woman more good in the...

July 22, 2017

Crisis of Faith

We long for something greater than ourselves even when we fear that we are alone...

July 01, 2017

The Scandal of Diversity

As a Catholic, I'm constantly reminded that I can't just go around excommunicating people that...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

He Will Lord It Over You

There is no natural equality of the sexes when it comes to sex.

June 27, 2017

The Problem of Many Gods

It's not talking to God, but rather finding oneself in the presence of something that...

June 27, 2017

Still Not an Atheist

I've got a piece up today over at Aleteia about why I'm not going back...

June 23, 2017

20 Reasons Why You Need to Drop Everything and Watch Season 3 of Fargo

I promised a review of Fargo series 3. I'll start with the two-word version: Watch...

June 22, 2017

Why Chastity?

I think the teaching of the Church is basically sound even though it's more or...

June 20, 2017

Some Straight Talk on Catholic Homophobia

Straight people and their sexual sins are not treated the same way as gay people...

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