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December 2023

December 17, 2023

When Converting the World Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

When I became Catholic in 1996, it was Testimony Time in the Church in the...

October 2022

October 01, 2022

Catholic Answers and the Trouble with Yoga

In a recent Dark Devotional for Sick Pilgrim, I commented on how Catholic Answers, where...

May 2022

May 22, 2022

How to Bring Catholics Back to Mass

A friend, I'll call him Chad,* once told me how his sister, Kayla, finally made...

April 2022

April 20, 2022

Conversions and Catholic Sola Scriptura

Perhaps the most poignant conversion story I've read was that of Rabbi Israel Zolli (1881–1956),...

March 2022

March 12, 2022

Apologetics Mistakes and Circling the Memory Hole

When the rapper Clifford Harris Jr. (also known as T.I.) told the world during a...

November 2021

November 04, 2021

The Virgin and the Philosophers

A few years ago, the Church marked the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI's...

June 2021

June 10, 2021

Priests Should Mind Their Own Business

A couple of months ago, I examined the case of a lay moral theologian who...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

Kill the Cat Apologetics

I like to say that I became a professional Catholic apologist by "on the job...

April 19, 2021

Catholic “Sexperts” Should Mind Their Own Business

Imagine, if you will, that you are a woman in her seventies, happily married for...

November 2020

November 19, 2020

Reject Nothing That’s True

When I was preparing to write a booklet for Catholic Answers on New Age beliefs...

November 07, 2020

“Are You Still Catholic?”

To say that my transition from a staff apologist at Catholic Answers to a freelance...

October 2020

October 26, 2020

Coming Out as “Liberal”

When I was preparing to blog again for Patheos, I remembered one of the social...

August 2020

August 18, 2020

“Someone Named Michelle Arnold”

"What's it like, being a female Catholic apologist in a field dominated by men?" *looks...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

One Size May Not Fit All

Do you remember when you were a kid, putting together your first "grown-up" puzzle? All...

May 2015

May 04, 2015

Baptism “Delayed” Is Not Baptism “Denied”

When I was about 15 or 16, I noticed a small black-and-white advertisement in the...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Proselytism Among Friends

I was not a practicing Christian when I was a young teen—I wasn’t even baptized...

April 24, 2015

Peace, Joy, Pancakes

Last summer I decided I wanted to blog again. Well, I already blog as a...