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May 2017

May 01, 2017

Is Work Valuable?: A Question for the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker

“What do you do?” “Oh, I’m an associate/ a teacher/ a lawyer/ a writer/ a...

March 2017

March 21, 2017

Pastoral Memes: A Mountain Catholic Podcast with Bishop Richard Umbers

On this week's episode of the Pit of Culture podcast over at Mountain Catholic, Matt Sewell and I...

March 20, 2017

St. Joseph, Masculinity, and Embracing Impositions

Sometimes, life requires embracing impositions. Like when I blew my tire out a...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

Please Stop Panicking About NFP: The Internet Makes Everything Scary

You know engagement and wedding season are heading to full force when you start seeing...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Silence, Predestination, and the Primacy of God’s Love

This week, I’ve been really struggling to find something to write about. With my Facebook...

January 19, 2017

So You’re Anxious About God’s Will: Three Thoughts on Figuring It Out

It’s not that I get anxious about things, it’s just that if I’m not...

January 13, 2017

Mary: Faith Without a Last Page

I was reading The Lord by Romano Guardini at one am, as I am wont to...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

ThisCatholicGirl: A Shadow Play for the Internet Age

You might say that, without the traditionally comedic conclusion, I, along with...

September 09, 2016

Let It Go with a Little Help from My Friends

One of the critiques I have often heard, in one iteration or another, is that...

August 2016

August 29, 2016

Intimacy and Isolation: A Two Body Problem

Preface: I write this as a Catholic who is speaking about sexuality to other Catholics....

August 10, 2016

Masturbation and Despair: A Podcast Follow Up with Mountain Catholic

Trigger/Content Warning: this post and podcast include discussion of sensitive topics such as masturbation...

August 10, 2016

Modesty: More Than A “Your Body” Problem

All the cool girls, that is, Rebecca Bratten Weiss over at suspended in her...

August 03, 2016

Masturbation and Despair: A One Body Problem

Update: Mountain Catholic asked me to do a follow up podcast with them about this...

August 01, 2016

Stories that Shape Us: Remembering Our Past and Our Communities

“We’re saving it for the next generation, you know, after us, because it's all disappearing”...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Theology of the Body, Topless Picnics, and the Message Our Body Sends

So the fine fellows over at Mountain Catholic are running my thoughts rn on topless picnics,...

July 26, 2016

When Good Catholic Women Take Birth Control

“In most cases it would have been possible to do something better than what an...

July 25, 2016

The Habit of Being In: Rootedness and Moving Again

I am moving. Again. Counting college, this will be my twelfth move in eight years....

July 12, 2016

Vocation: Get Food On the Table, Then We Can Talk About Beatitude

It’s no secret I’m a fan of David Foster Wallace. The first thing I remember...

July 07, 2016

I’ll Come Around Some Day: Sin and Sanctity

Sin. It’s strangely akin to our love for crappy television: we don’t talk about it until...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Valid Marriages and Sacraments: Honest Deeds, Honest Words, and True Things

So, marriage has been a rather hot topic of late in the Church, what with...

June 09, 2016

Good Men Don’t Assault Women, Period.

***This obviously deals with a sensitive topic, and includes some of the victim’s own, validly...

June 02, 2016

Intellectual Custom, Pt. 2: The Truth of All Things

So, intellectual blind spots exist in all of us, largely due to intellectual...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Intellectual Custom: I Want to Be Like You, Or, Like, Not

Nicholas Kristof's The Liberal Blind Spot in the New York Times is a fascinating follow up...

May 12, 2016

Originality Is So Two Years Ago

I once had a professor, or a tutor as my college named them, who made...

May 09, 2016

Mary, Motherhood, and Mess

A few days ago, I received a Snapchat from one of my good friends who...

May 03, 2016

In My Beginning (Is My End)

Material existence is weird. I says this, because I have just enough Thomistitelian (Thomistic Aristotelian)...