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April 2016

April 13, 2016

Vocation of Forgiveness

Scapegoating, as we see it, is a way of escaping from our own responsibilities by...

April 10, 2016

Amoris Laetitia Needs to Give Sinners More Stick, Less Carrot, Yeah?

There is an oversimplification of the story of the rich young man that I often...

March 2016

March 20, 2016

St. Joseph versus Toxic Masculinity

I should have written this yesterday, for the feast of St. Joseph, but it didn't...

March 08, 2016

Let’s Play Theodicy: Another Run at the Problem of Evil

I promised a while back to talk about the sufferings of innocent people who are...

February 2016

February 27, 2016

Does God Make Mistakes? (And are Trans People One of Them?)

One of the questions that people often ask when talking about trans issues is “Do...

February 24, 2016

Q Conference Denver

I'm going to be writing and blogging about trans and gender stuff again over the...

February 19, 2016

Lesser Evil: A Merciful Monstrosity?

Yesterday, Pope Francis alluded to the lesser evil argument in relation to contraception and the...

February 15, 2016

A World Without Evil

One of my correspondents recently asked me about the problem of suffering, specifically as it...

February 15, 2016

How to Practice the Seven Spiritual Works of Mercy Online

Many people, aware that online spaces can provide occasions for sin, give up social media...

February 09, 2016

Giving Up Time for Lent

This one I haven't done. But it's my coolest idea for what I would do...

February 09, 2016

Giving Up Fashion for Lent: A Path to True Confidence

Giving Up Clothes for Lent No, I don't mean that you should go naked. I...

February 09, 2016

Giving Up Truth for Lent

By this, I don't mean actually giving up the Truth, but rather giving up one's...

February 09, 2016

Giving Up Home for Lent

I've never done this specifically for Lent, but when I first converted to Catholicism I...

February 09, 2016

Giving Up Buying for Lent

Some readers may be familiar with Buy Nothing day -- a day of protest, usually...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

My Own Parochial Jesus

Serendipitously, this week's gospel speaks to the theme of tribalism that I've been talking...

January 28, 2016

Blessed Catastrophe: The Staggering Account of the Sermon on the Mount

If you say "I lost my job" or "I've been diagnosed with cancer," or "My...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

Depart From Me, You Evildoers

One of the most chilling passages in scripture is in Matthew 7, when Christ says...

December 10, 2015

Pregnancy and Pelagianism

I have a new article up at OSV talking about the experience of being heavily...

November 2015

November 12, 2015

God of the Lacunae

The atheist believes that God is an unlikely being, almost certainly a fiction, and therefore...

October 2015

October 24, 2015

Work Without Representation: Giving Power to Women in the Church

I've been mostly avoiding writing about the Synod, because I've honestly just been too tired,...

October 05, 2015

Fun with Truth!

Once upon a time, most of us were small children in a Sunday school classroom....

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Is the Pope Catholic?

Pope Francis has arrived in America, and of course the internet is awash with the...

September 21, 2015

Catholicism as a Second Language

When someone converts to Catholicism, they will always bring with them certain habits of thought...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

I and Thou: Orthodox Theology of Marriage

"Orthodoxy considers both the unitive and procreative aspects of marriage to be important. Yet it...

August 13, 2015

Trans and Catholic: An Interview with Aoife Assumpta Hart

I've talked before about the importance of including trans people in the Christian conversation. On...

August 05, 2015

The Folly of Intellect: A Demon’s Reflections

It has come to my attention that there is some concern amongst certain of the...

July 2015

July 25, 2015

The Interior Life of Sheep

I was raised in a really nice Anglican parish, and I went to a lot...

July 11, 2015

Apocalyptophoria

The apocalypse promises to divest us of responsibility for solving the seemingly impossible problems of...

July 04, 2015

Rein in the Dogs of War

Over the past week, I've seen two really unfortunate trends. One is the more or...

July 02, 2015

Getting from Theism to Catholicsm (Part II)

Several months before I decided to take God seriously I was in an argument with...

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