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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 06, 2017

At The Personalist Project: Can Men and Women Be Friends?

A couple of days ago, a writer at The Federalist went on a "just-kidding-but-not-really" rant...

April 04, 2017

Should your teenage daughter learn NFP?

Fertility Awareness should be for every woman—not just sexually active ones I had a somewhat...

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 23, 2017

The problem of Ken and Barbie

Flipping through Netflix recently, my kids and I wound up watching a handful of episodes...

March 09, 2017

At The Personalist Project: A Cat-shaped Carrot

Yesterday was my oldest son's birthday, and it got me musing about the nature of...

March 08, 2017

Happy Birthday, Kiddo!

One of my favourite FB features is the "On This Day" app that lets you...

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."...

February 2017

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 22, 2017

Heart Speaks to Heart

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

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 14, 2017

More Dangerous Than Bullets

Over two week ago, a young man named Alexandre Bissonnette walked into a mosque in...

February 08, 2017

At The Personalist Project: The Ethical Activist

I've been mulling over the evolution of modern activism, the assumption that different activist groups...

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 24, 2017

At The Personalist Project: A Tunnel of Hope

It helps, sometimes, when trying to untangle knotty questions of what solidarity and personalism-in-action might...

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...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

A defence of earthiness

*This post was originally meant as part of a two-part post. I hit a mental...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Modesty and Avoiding Scrupulousity

The question of modesty has come up again at Aleteia. In the ensuing discussion, a...

March 2016

March 19, 2016

On strawmen, privilege, and the “deserving” poor

If you want to look down your noses at people who rely on government assistance,...

January 2016

January 22, 2016

Perceiving the person

Just popping in to point any readers I have left to my post over at...

October 2015

October 12, 2015

Love among the ruins

A snippet from a piece I published last week: ...There are things broken that we cannot...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Soylent Green is People

"Soylent Green is people!" The movie Soylent Green ends with the plea that people be...

July 11, 2015

When submission becomes a false idol

First, the disclaimer: My husband and I have problems (you don't live a thousand miles...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Telling the truth about ourselves.

Over at the Personalist Project, I'm talking about a definition of modesty that transcends sexual...

May 09, 2014

Living in the real world, Seven Quick Takes edition

--- 1 ---Marc has written a lovely reflection on man as a world-creator; specifically, he writes...

April 2014

April 27, 2014

My Pope

I want to write something more about what it means to me that Pope John...

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....

December 2013

December 10, 2013

Who decides what ‘feminism’ is?

Every once in a while, I run across an article or blog post by a...