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2015-09-18T14:32:24-04:00

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Rein in the Dogs of War

Last updated on: September 18, 2015 at 2:32 pm By Melinda Selmys

Over the past week, I've seen two really unfortunate trends. One is the more or less constant belly-aching of traditional Christians about the persecutions that are surely just around the corner now that gay marriage is legal. The other is people being deeply hurt and scandalized by the belly-aching. Read more

2015-07-04T03:19:43-04:00

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St. Thomas the Skeptic

Last updated on: July 4, 2015 at 3:19 am By Melinda Selmys

In which venture into the realm of ghetto web-comics. Read more

2015-07-03T22:12:46-04:00

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Understanding Gender Dysphoria: I review Mark Yarhouse’s new book

Last updated on: July 3, 2015 at 10:12 pm By Melinda Selmys

Over the past year, I've had a number of people ask me for good Christian resources aimed at helping pastors, parents and Christians with gender dysphoria to navigate the difficult questions about gender identity that we face in the postmodern world. In all cases I've smiled sadly, shrugged my shoulders, and said, “Well... Read more

2015-09-18T14:33:44-04:00

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NFP Wurkt Fur Mee!

Last updated on: September 18, 2015 at 2:33 pm By Melinda Selmys

The last time that I was blogging about NFP was several years ago, and I was angry. I had just suffered a miscarriage as a result of an ill-advised pregnancy. I knew before I got pregnant Read more

2015-09-18T14:33:52-04:00

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Getting from Theism to Catholicsm (Part II)

Last updated on: September 18, 2015 at 2:33 pm By Melinda Selmys

Several months before I decided to take God seriously I was in an argument with a Christian who suggested that there was no point in combing the Old Testament for contradictions in order to prove that Christianity was foolish: the Old Testament was full of apparent contradictions because it could only truly be understood or interpreted in the light of the New Testament. So naturally I set out to find the contradictions in the New Testament. Read more

2015-09-18T14:34:01-04:00

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What is Art? (or What Pontius Pilate Asked John Keats)

Last updated on: September 18, 2015 at 2:34 pm By Melinda Selmys

It is generally supposed that it is difficult to define art. Undergrad philosophy students, trying to look deep, will ask this question and then look off into space, their black berets perched askance upon the thoughtful brow, pondering deeply without generating any communicable thought. Ah the ineffable question. Read more

2015-09-18T14:34:17-04:00

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Fiat Currency

Last updated on: September 18, 2015 at 2:34 pm By Melinda Selmys

As far as I can tell, money is a totally malleable substance of no fixed value that is remarkably responsive to spiritual realities. Read more

2015-09-18T14:34:24-04:00

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Gold Standard

Last updated on: September 18, 2015 at 2:34 pm By Melinda Selmys

The universal wisdom of the world is that one of the things which every man ought to do in order to secure his life against financial loss is to hoard up money for himself. Once upon a time this was done rather romantically: people would put their gold into chests, and they would bury the chests in secret places in the ground. Read more

2015-09-18T14:35:26-04:00

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The Gay Roman Emperor Gene

Last updated on: September 18, 2015 at 2:35 pm By Melinda Selmys

There is a wry little footnote in Gibbon where he reflects that of the first fifteen Roman Emperors, "Claudius was the only one whose taste in love was entirely correct." Even if we assume that Kinsey's inflated "one in ten" statistic is accurate, we should only expect that 1.3 of these men would be homosexual/bisexual in his inclinations. Read more

2015-09-18T14:35:44-04:00

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5 Ways We Can Save Marriage Now

Last updated on: September 18, 2015 at 2:35 pm By Melinda Selmys

Yesterday I said that we need to move forward with building up the infrastructure to make traditional marriage into a realistic and attractive possibility. Today, I'm going to talk about some very practical things that we can start doing to help make this a reality. Read more

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