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April 2019

April 14, 2019

The Power of Negative Thinking: On Trauma and Validation

It was my last year of high-school, late at night, and my boyfriend, J, was...

October 2018

October 27, 2018

The Seductive Illusion of Objectivity

This is not a defence of relativism. It is a challenge to the concept of...

April 2018

April 21, 2018

Love Your Ideological Enemies

Over the past couple of weeks, there’s been an unusual amount of drama in my...

April 10, 2018

In Praise of Conservatism

A certain amount of shade gets thrown on conservatives, particularly in the present political climate....

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Still Not an Atheist

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

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Another One of Those Irregular Verbs: I Reason, You Opine, He/She Rationalizes

Yesterday over at Crisis, Fr. Longenecker has a piece about why the Benedict Option may...

May 06, 2017

The Tree of Life, Epistemology, My NFP Book, and Prayer Request

It's come to my attention that I have a deep-seated, possibly but not necessarily disordered,...

March 2017

March 01, 2017

I’m Gonna Give Up Being Right for Lent

Every Lent I try to come up with something interesting and fruitful to do apart...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

Conservatives vs. Liberals: Who Are the Real Catholics?

Several years ago, I was involved in a frustrating and interminable exchange about Catholic sexual...

February 05, 2017

Selective Skepticism

Yesterday I read a comment by 3vil5triker on my post Is Heaven for Real? My...

December 2016

December 01, 2016

In My Greek City State…

We have a game at our house that we occasionally play as part of our...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Sad Bad SAD

I mentioned in a fairly recent post that I suffer from seasonal depression. It's not...

November 26, 2016

The Other “N” Word

Years ago, when I moved in more traditionalist Catholic circles, I recall often encountering the...

November 18, 2016

Backseat Creator

My recent post, Wayward Creatures, dealt with one aspect of the problem of suffering –...

November 12, 2016

Don’t Grieve Like That

Over the past week I've seen a lot of discussion about grief – most of...

August 2016

August 10, 2016

Socrates On My Side

So my big fun for today has been playing through the first level of an...

August 10, 2016

You Are What You Read

One of the things that I love about ancient philosophy is that it's often embodied...

August 03, 2016

Why I Need Atheism

On a recent post, 3vil5triker asked whether all ideas of God are not a form...

July 2016

July 13, 2016

Natural Law vs. Natural Law

Dan Mattson just published an answer in Crisis to my natural law articles, and I...

May 2016

May 29, 2016

Life Lessons I Learned From My Characters: Germanicus

I'm doing a series of posts in which I give some of the most useful...

March 2016

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 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 09, 2016

A Brief Digression About Zombies

This nifty piece does a very passable Aquinas impersonation covering two articles from the Summa...

December 2015

December 19, 2015

Give Birth Like A Man!

I have two reasons for talking about gender atypical narratives of childbirth.

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Stoics Have More Fun!

I just did my most fun interview ever. For once someone wanted to know about...

October 26, 2015

Oriented Towards Beauty

I believe that all human hearts are fundamentally ordered towards their Divine origin, but I...

October 05, 2015

Fun with Truth!

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

September 2015

September 28, 2015

Sex and Simulacrum

I want to talk about the relationship between gender and "essential" masculinity/femininity, but before I...

August 2015

August 03, 2015

Holy Moral Relativism Batman!

Way back at the height of the Enlightenment there was a test administered which “proved”...

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