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June 2015

June 10, 2015

Proving God Experimentally

Aristotle managed to prove the existence of the First Cause from first principles and reflections...

May 2015

May 17, 2015

Arriving at Amen: An Interview with Leah Libresco

Leah Libresco, of the Unequally Yoked blog here at Patheos, has written a book entitled...

April 2015

April 15, 2015

Living on a Prayer Trigger

St. Paul tells us to pray without ceasing. Just what that means is not entirely...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Prayer and the Big Game: Can You Pray Before You Play?

It's so typical a moment that it's become trite: the athlete steps out for his...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

On Praying for What You Really Want

Should I ask God for what I want? Is it arrogant to ask the Lord...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

When Prayer becomes Mortification

I first started praying the Liturgy of the Hours in the mid-winter of 2008, a...

April 2014

April 21, 2014

The Desolation of the Draggin’

The Anchoress wrote last week about her experience of desolation in Penn Station. She was...

January 2014

January 10, 2014

Wishful Thinking vs. Prayer

It occurred to me after finishing this post that perhaps the individuals in question believe...

November 2013

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 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 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

On Being a Conduit of Love

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

November 05, 2013

The Pony Principle

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

October 2013

October 14, 2013

How Tom Prays the Rosary

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

October 07, 2013

Fumbly, Stumbly, Wooly-headed, Thick-tongued Prayers

Prayer is a massive, wonderful, frightening thing. God is there and wants to hear from...