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March 2019

March 06, 2019

Sexual Coercion and Spousal Rape: What the Church Needs To Do

It was after the birth of my sixth child, my family had taken my other...

March 03, 2019

PSA: NFP is Not Compatible With Alcoholism or Abuse

“No wonder she hates NFP so much,” the woman wrote. “NFP won’t work with an...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

Humanae Vitae, What Have You Wrought?

This week we mark the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae. It is probably the single...

April 2018

April 02, 2018

My Baby’s Keeper? NFP and Postpartum Depression

Recently, I blogged about the existence of social conditions which make it more difficult for...

December 2017

December 21, 2017

Baby It’s Cold in Phase 2: On Chastity Culture and Consent

It’s that time of year again – the annual season of arguing about whether “Baby...

December 13, 2017

Struggling to Confess

Okay, so I'm slowly, painstakingly working on the NFP book -- there's a bunch of...

November 2017

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 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...

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Too Tired to Pray

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

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...

May 2017

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,...

May 04, 2017

Are Women Being Denied the Truth About NFP?

Jane the Actuary has recently posted on the problem of young people receiving inaccurate information...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

To All You Whiny Snowflakes Who *Need* an Epidural

Several days ago, I put up a post about gradualism and NFP. In the com-box,...

March 21, 2017

Is NFP Marriage Building?

One of the great mysteries of NFP literature is the claim that natural family planning...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

Update on the Books I’m Writing Now

Winter has come to Canada and we're having a run of snow-days. My older kids...

August 2016

August 10, 2016

Frequently Unanswered Questions About NFP

Eve Tushnet has been twisting my arm a bit to try to get me to...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

Legitimate Therapeutic Means: Can Catholics Use the Pill?

It's NFP awareness week. So let's talk about the Pill. Specifically, I want to talk...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

The NFP Catholic’s Guide to Pregnancy

For arcane and inscrutable reasons, I keep going on-line to try to find useful advice...

November 07, 2015

Is Being Open to Life Easier if You’re Rich?

There's been some discussion around Patheos about David Mill's article over at Aleteia. The basic...

July 2015

July 08, 2015

What Happened to the Post Humanae Vitae Dream?

So this is the post where I'm promising answers, and I need to be very...

July 07, 2015

Sexual Anorexia

Yesterday, I talked about how NFP functions as an ascetic practice, and why that can...

July 06, 2015

So, Is NFP Marriage Building or Isn’t It?

This will take a couple posts. We'll start by talking about NFP use under normal...

July 05, 2015

My Libido: A Mosquito

Every so often in discussions of NFP there's that person who pops up and says...

July 04, 2015

Rate Your NFP Privilege Quiz

There are a lot of factors that can influence how onerous NFP is for any...

July 03, 2015

NFP Wurkt Fur Mee!

The last time that I was blogging about NFP was several years ago, and I...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

Sexual Authenticity: Past, Present and Future

Since I've only recently come to Patheos, I wanted to give readers an idea of...

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