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January 2014

January 06, 2014

Don’t Objectify Your Friends

Last week I wrote about Friendship Evangelism, a technique for evangelism that I was taught...

January 02, 2014

Study: The Second Pillar

Study is the second pillar of Dominican life. Read about it in my January column...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

Friendship Evangelism

Recently I ran across this entry at a site called "wikiHow": fifteen steps to Persuade...

December 29, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Divine Office, Part II

Last week, I began talking about the Divine Office as a daily devotion. Today I...

December 23, 2013

Too Introverted to Evangelize?

People were discussing the New Evangelization on a Catholic forum I read, and one fellow...

December 22, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Divine Office, Part I

A few days ago I talked about the value of regular devotions to the interior...

December 16, 2013

The Eternal View and the Temporal View

There are two ways to look at the Church, two ways that are essential for...

December 15, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Rosary

I actually picked up the Rosary before I returned to the Catholic Church. A non-Catholic...

December 13, 2013

Evangelii Gaudium: Out of the Comfort Zone

If we take joy in the Gospel, if it truly is Good News, we'll want...

December 12, 2013

Evangelii Gaudium: Suffering and Hope

Pain and suffering are difficult by definition. Recently Calah Alexander took issue with people who...

December 09, 2013

Besetting Sins and Pseudo-Virtues

In a comment on this post, reader ThisIstheEnd said that he found it odd for...

December 09, 2013

Evangelii Gaudium: God never tires of forgiving us

This question came up at RCIA this week: what's the difference between Peter and Judas?...

December 05, 2013

I’m a Truckist

We were discussing the end of the world and the Second Coming at my Lay...

December 02, 2013

Fifteen Views of Christians by Non-Christians

So John Shore at Patheo's Progressive Christian channel asked non-Christians all over the country what...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

Also Righteously Bad

Since I posted about the waiter in Overland Park, Kansas who received a nasty note...

November 25, 2013

The Deadly Ambiguity of Aphorisms

In all my years of Christian living I've often heard the saying, "God will never...

November 21, 2013

UPDATED: Listening to God

I've often been told that prayer is talking with God, not talking to God, and...

November 18, 2013

How To Call Someone To Repentance

Last month I spent many pixels criticizing a particularly bad and ineffective way of explaining...

November 12, 2013

What Love Looks Like

Rebecca Frech has a beautiful story to tell, and tells it beautifully: what a truly...

November 11, 2013

Monogamy Fulfills Eros

Last July there was an article in the Atlantic that stated that Monogamy kills Eros,...

November 06, 2013

The Touchstone of Obedience: Medjugorge and Other Apparitions

I am not an apparitions kind of guy. I'm aware of Fatima and Guadalupe and...

November 05, 2013

The Pony Principle

Many years ago I formulated what I call the Pony Principle, which is this: if...

November 03, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Cooperation

Looked at one way, the interior life is a long series of repairs. We are...

November 01, 2013

Mere Catholicism

So Elizabeth Scalia welcomed me to Patheos on her blog a couple of days ago,...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Righteously Bad Theology

As the Anchoress noted a couple of days ago, a server in Overland Park, Kansas...

October 28, 2013

Peter Follows and Leads

Tom McDonald points out how it's supposed to work: first you sit at the feet...

October 24, 2013

St. Benedict for Moms

If I were not a Lay Dominican, I'd probably be a Benedictine Oblate. Benedictines are...

October 22, 2013

How to Grow Up

You never really learn something on first exposure. You have to see it twice...and the...

October 21, 2013

As Catholic as the Pope

Some while back I told one of my sisters in the Dominican Laity that I...

October 14, 2013

How Tom Prays the Rosary

As a Lay Dominican, I'm supposed to pray five decades of the Rosary every day...