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September 2015

September 02, 2015

Copernicus and Aquinas on Moving Day

Recently I got the following comment from Sophia Sadek on one of my Aquinas posts....

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Today’s Aquinas: The Spirit is the Love of God

Thomas says that the beloved draws the lover to it. And the more perfect the...

August 28, 2015

Infrastructure: Pictures All Over The Ground

The above is the sort of picture that makes my wife sigh and say, "Yeah,...

August 26, 2015

Today’s Aquinas: We Love the Good We Know

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

August 24, 2015

His Bright Materials: the Saints and the Forge of God

For each of His saints God knows best how to bring the pure metal out...

August 23, 2015

Being a Jerk Doesn’t Necessarily Make You a Misogynist

I just ran across this post, "Beyond Mansplaining: A New Lexicon of Misogynist Trolling Behaviors",...

August 17, 2015

Today’s Aquinas: Consubstantial with the Father

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

August 16, 2015

Free Will, and the Struggle for Excellence

My posts about suffering have revolved around the notion of “free will”, and that has...

August 13, 2015

Dog Tired

I've just completed the second day of a three-day series of all day meetings. And...

August 12, 2015

Review: Canon Selphy 4×6 Photo Printer

Given that I'm taking pictures again, I wanted a way to make nice looking prints...

August 11, 2015

Knowing is Not Enough; and the Doing is Hard

Continuing through Cam’s comment on my post about suffering in Heaven, he asks, Your first...

August 10, 2015

Today’s Aquinas: Begotten, Not Made

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

August 07, 2015

Got the Blues, Got the Blues, Got the Saint Louis Blues

The "Saint Louis Blues" is a jazz standard. It was composed by W.C. Handy as...

August 06, 2015

The Dogmat Saw Lions, Panthers, and Saints, Oh My!

The Dogmat thinks he'll start with the Panther. A 78-year-old German man was hiding a...

August 05, 2015

Review: Adobe Lightroom

I mentioned last week that I'm getting back into photography, and that I'd picked up...

August 04, 2015

When Your Fist Strikes My Face, That’s a Choice

This week I’m still mining Cam’s excellent comment on my post about suffering in Heaven. ...

August 03, 2015

Today’s Aquinas: God of God, Light of Light, True God of True God

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

July 2015

July 31, 2015

The Nashville Cats meet Noshville Katz!

So many years ago the Lovin' Spoonful recorded a song about guitar pickers in Nashville,...

July 30, 2015

The Dogmat saw Miyazaki!

Well, not in person. The Pope and the Animator: John Herreid writes about what Pope...

July 29, 2015

On the Making of Faces

Recently I decided to jump back into photography as an active hobby, and my first...

July 28, 2015

What He’s Researching, I’m Studying

Commenter Cam left a long and thoughtful comment on a recent post of mine about...

July 27, 2015

Today’s Aquinas: Born of the Father Before All Ages

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

July 23, 2015

The Dogmat saw Pictures, Pictures Everywhere

The Dogmat has been renewing his interest in photography recently, and has come across a...

July 22, 2015

Fr. Barron Comes to Los Angeles!

If you're reading this blog you're probably already aware that Fr. Robert Barron of Word...

July 21, 2015

How Can There Be No Suffering in Heaven?

In a previous post I argued that free will allows the making of poor choices,...

July 20, 2015

Today’s Aquinas: Consubwhatsis with the Father?

We’re blogging through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Compendium Theologiae, sometimes called his Shorter Summa. Find the previous posts here....

July 17, 2015

Sing, Sing, Sing!

One of my favorite pieces from the Swing era is Benny Goodman's epic version of...

July 16, 2015

The Dogmat Saw Litigation, Minecraft Cathedrals, and Absurd Optimism

The Dogmat saw the usual range of stuff, including a couple of thought-provoking pieces and...

July 15, 2015

We Suffer Because We Are Human

In my previous post I ended by suggesting that God couldn’t remove all suffering in...

July 14, 2015

Why Doesn’t God Prevent Suffering?

My atheist interlocutors have presented me with a vast number of questions on my post...

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