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August 2018

August 16, 2018

How to Reform the Church

From a letter to Pope Paul V by Saint John Leonardi, priest: Those who want...

August 09, 2018

Would I walk 600 miles?

I'm working on a project that has me writing very condensed descriptions of various saints,...

June 2018

June 01, 2018

Choices: Glimpses of Good (Four Weeks of Fine Men)

Today, I want to share with you some of the small glimpses of good readers...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Strong Enough to be Gentle: Hasib (Four Weeks of Fine Men #6)

When I chose the tag #tonicmasculinity for this story, I was pleased with the wordplay...

May 28, 2018

When Heroes Have Clay Feet (a note on #tonicmasculinity)

I took this weekend away from the computer to breathe a bit, enjoy the nice...

May 23, 2018

Formed in Friendship: Brian and Caden (Four Weeks of Fine Men #3)

From a reader, I have this story of young men who are choosing inclusion and...

May 20, 2018

Four Weeks of Fine Men

With all the examples of toxic masculinity in the news, I feel the need for...

May 01, 2018

All These Things Will Be Given To You As Well

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or...

April 2018

April 06, 2018

What a fictional wizard taught me about fear, faith, and friendship

This is a post about a wizard named Harry, and a lesson I needed to...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

It’s Not About You

*NB. Plug in just about any other parenting choice within the range of normal and...

February 22, 2018

Data-based Gun Policy Links

This is a clearinghouse post for interesting, data-based links I run across online. There's a...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

Poetry Will Save the World (Seven Quick Takes)

My sister-in-law says I don't understand the "Quick" part of "Seven Quick Takes." She's probably...no,...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

#TakeAKnee Has Made America Great Again

There are things more important than patriotism. America is greatest and most deserving of patriotism...

September 14, 2017

The Peace of Wild Things

After waving my youngest off to school on the bus yesterday morning, I found my...

August 2017

August 18, 2017

Monuments, Racism, Redemption, and Charlottesville: Seven Stories of How Things Can Be between Men (and Women) on this Earth

This has been an awfully depressing week, with the news out of Charlottesville overshadowing...

August 09, 2017

I decline to accept the end of man

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now...

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...

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...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Fields of our hearts

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

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Touching the Wall

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

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 13, 2017

A Moment’s Pause

I'm still settling in here at Patheos, after a month in my new blog digs....

February 07, 2017

Letting my geek flag fly

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

October 2015

October 16, 2015

Learning to Love the Thing I Most Wish Had Not Happened

Last week was Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada. It also marked the four year anniversary...

May 2014

May 01, 2014

Choose your poison

This morning, a friend who knows fairly well the ups and downs and trials of...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Is there such thing as a Catholic feminist?

My sister-in-law and I were joking around recently about discovering that we practice Child-Led Weaning....

February 2013

February 21, 2013

Cri du Coeur

There's a particular kind of heartbreak that comes from being exposed to the all-too-human failings...

January 2012

January 29, 2012

Thank you for your prayers!!

The door is reopened to reconciliation, though we're hampered by the distance between us and...

June 2009

June 24, 2009

Some thoughts, and a poem.

2009 has been long, strange, and somewhat rocky for our family. Health and employment issues,...