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July 2017

July 26, 2017

Restlessness and Redemption Suffering (Throwback Thursday)

I've slowly been updating links from old, pre-Patheos posts, since the individual page links don't...

July 25, 2017

Life Is Pain: Carrying in Our Bodies the Dying of Jesus

"Brothers and sisters: We hold this treasure in earthen vessels... always carrying about in the...

July 12, 2017

The Diversity Hollywood Will Never Tolerate

It’s not real diversity to let Hollywood prejudices against old or plain women drive character...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Strawberries and Sorrow

I've been feeling overwhelmed this week. The week didn't start well. As we gathered Saturday...

June 17, 2017

To Destroy a Piece of Your Heart

There's a Solzhenitsyn quote which I love, and quote frequently--I quoted a related passage only...

June 09, 2017

When Geeks War and Catholics Troll

I'm going to talk about Geekdom--communities of enthusiasts or fans--for a little bit. Bear with...

May 2017

May 29, 2017

Modesty and the Naked Truth

I want to propose a definition for modesty that seems to me to fit all...

May 17, 2017

At The Personalist Project: The Sandals of Whatever

I snarked on Facebook earlier this week that everybody loves to talk about the shield...

May 15, 2017

How Not to Do Spiritual Warfare

In spiritual warfare, the enemy is always and everywhere the Enemy. Every soul is a...

May 10, 2017

Is This The Real Life?

(Or is this just fantasy?) I attended a very small Catholic college, with student life policies...

May 01, 2017

The Given Life (a book review)

"We live the given life, and not the planned." - Wendell Berry I first...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

At The Personalist Project: Broken for Us

Christ died. He suffered that sundering of body and soul that awaits us all, so...

April 16, 2017

Fields of our hearts

I woke up this morning to the sound of a child retching in the bathroom....

April 11, 2017

When marriage hurts

There's a powerful guest post over at Simcha Fisher's blog today about abuse in Catholic...

March 2017

March 24, 2017

Drink Your Poison Yourself

I spent my morning on Facebook trying to communicate with a super-bitter, misogynistic geek guy with a...

March 22, 2017

Friendship Through A Glass Darkly

When my oldest child was small, he would sometimes ask me what I was doing...

March 21, 2017

The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer

We talk about living in a post-Christian era, but what does that actually look like? Does...

March 06, 2017

Prometheus

Prometheus . Into the window of time, new-opened, Adam’s hand, Prometheus-like, was singed condemned for...

March 02, 2017

At The Personalist Project: When Friendship Doesn’t Go Far Enough

There's an article going around with the click-bait title, "More Than BFFs: When Friendship Goes Too Far."...

March 01, 2017

Ash Wednesday

Today is Ash Wednesday. In a little while, I will go to Mass and receive...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Fat Tuesday and the Good of Created Things

It says something interesting about Catholic culture that Pancake Tuesday and Shrove Tuesday sit comfortably...

February 25, 2017

At The Personalist Project: A Lent of Tiny Thorns

What is the use of giving up something like dessert? Dessert is...

February 23, 2017

Touching the Wall

There is a scene in Henry Poole is Here where the protagonist comes to...

February 22, 2017

Heart Speaks to Heart

I wrote yesterday about why I don't write a ton on specific theological controversies. I...

February 21, 2017

Why I don’t have an opinion on the Dubia

A friend called me recently and challenged me to defend Pope Francis in light of...

February 17, 2017

At The Personalist Project: Tin Pacifists and the Search for Meaning

“The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he...

February 07, 2017

Letting my geek flag fly

I was at a bus station yesterday morning and a fellow at the ticket counter...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

At The Personalist Project: Staring Down History

It's popular in some circles to advise people to ask themselves, "Am I on the...

January 10, 2017

Quote of the Day

"One of the greatest dangers in the spiritual life is self-rejection. When we say, "If...

October 2016

October 04, 2016

Defined by morals, not memories

This piece popped up in my FB memories from last year, and I was moved...