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March 2017

March 14, 2017

2017: The Year Your Sperm Stopped Swimming and Started Drowning

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further...

March 10, 2017

Why is the Catholic Experience of Sex so Different from the Protestant Experience of Sex?

Our religious beliefs are not private, because they shape our experiences of fundamental realities such...

March 09, 2017

Who Knew Sex Helps You to Experience God’s Presence in the World?

Who knew this about sex and God? Well, the writers of the Bible and the...

March 08, 2017

Increasingly Secularized Americans Are Sexless, But Catholics Might Be Bucking the Sex Trends

The sexual revolution appears to have paradoxically liberated our libidos from sex itself. This seems...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

Love Hurts: Orlando Shooting Was Mateen’s Revenge on Lovers, Not Terrorism

We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has...

June 17, 2016

The Orthodox Believer’s Tale of Jesus’s Wife

Was Jesus married? Shocking news pieces attempting to debunk the orthodox version of the life...

June 16, 2016

Sources Close to Orlando Shooter Confirm Omar Mateen Was Gay

The Palm Beach Post seems to be the only news source reporting on some very...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Sex and Soulcraft: The Artist Formerly Known as Prince

Prince gave us the ultimate expression of spiritual eros in music. The genealogy of soul...

April 11, 2016

Pope Francis Quashes “Who am I to judge?” Speculation in Amoris Laetitia

The truncated statement, "Who am I to judge?," caused a lot of consternation among certain...

February 2016

February 04, 2016

Culprit Behind Breasts Ballooning is Breaking Creation’s Back

I can't even begin to explain the algorithms that got me to the DailyMail story on...

January 2016

January 15, 2016

Abortion is Not a Conservative Issue (Millennials Know This)

Not too long ago Kristin Dombek wrote a widely-circulated favorable review of the book Defenders...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Profiles in Courage for a Refugee Risk-Averse America

We can best memorialize the passing of John F. Kennedy by collecting and emulating contemporary...

June 2015

June 03, 2015

Christians are Dynamic Postmodernists Relative to Conservative Bruce — Caitlyn Jenner

Theorists and practitioners of Gender Theory are frequently mistakenly considered to be postmodern relativists. But,...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Ireland & Legitimacy: An Ironic Correlation Between Clergy Abuse & Gay Marriage

They say that correlation does not imply causation. However, when you continually see a pattern develop...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Before Marriage: Gays (As a Group) Were Morally Superior to Christians (As a Group)

Stanley Hauerwas is America's theological gadfly. Short is the list of people who have not...

April 17, 2015

Sexuality is at the Heart of Christianity’s Place in the World

We have gone over some of the lineaments of the difference Christian sexual morality makes...