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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 02, 2015

Which Monotheistic God is God?

Last time I looked at theological systems that aim at the divine as the ultimate...

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

Listening to God Redux

I don't know whether Tom McDonald's latest post was inspired by my post on Listening...

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 24, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Time

So you've begun to pursue the interior life. You're learning to respond to the Lord's...

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 17, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Direction

A couple of weeks ago I compared the interior life to a kitchen remodel. You've...

November 14, 2013

Discovering the Saints: Justin Martyr

My latest column for CatholicMom concerns one of the Church's first apologists, St. Justin Martyr,...

November 12, 2013

What Love Looks Like

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

November 12, 2013

How Not To Get Traction

So a week or so ago I complained about a fellow who left an awful...

November 11, 2013

Monogamy Fulfills Eros

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

November 10, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Feelings

When you embark on the interior life, you'll find that feelings come with it. Sometimes...

November 07, 2013

Love, Sex, and other Inequalities

Katrina Fernandez, aka The Crescat, has knocked it out of the park with a post...

November 07, 2013

On Being a Conduit of Love

Receiving God's love is kind of like tuning in on a radio signal. God's love...

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 06, 2013

The Dogmat Sez

Bad behavior on my enemy's part does not justify bad behavior on my part. Bad...

November 05, 2013

Faith Ain’t Nonsensical

The common view of faith is well represented by this speech from Jack McDevitt's novel...

November 05, 2013

The Pony Principle

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

November 04, 2013

The Dogmat Sez

When you're a layperson, the world is your cloister.

November 04, 2013

Thomas Aquinas, by Denys Turner

Thomas Aquinas, by Denys Turner, might be the best book on Thomas Aquinas that I've...

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 27, 2013

Bootstrapping the Interior Life: Grace

Pursuing the interior life—a life of holiness—is not easy, but fortunately God doesn't leave us...

October 24, 2013

St. Benedict for Moms

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

October 24, 2013

Spiritual and Religious

I saw a post on Facebook today from a friend whom I believe would describe...

October 23, 2013

Just What Is a Sin, Anyway?

We Christians interested in evangelization are in the business of explaining to people how they...