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August 2018

August 28, 2018

A Way Wherein There Is No Ecstasy

You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again,...

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,...

May 2018

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...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

Running Away to Ahch-To

It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

The Mindful Mutt

I feel like I've been going a dozen different directions this Advent, trying to be...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I love Halloween. I always have. When I was a child, I loved Halloween...

October 02, 2017

Weeding the Garden of Good and Evil

I must thank Simcha for saying so well what I have tried to say elsewhere. In...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

The consistent ethic of abolitionist William Wilberforce

This is the second part of a three part series on single-issue activism and social...

September 14, 2017

The Peace of Wild Things

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

September 11, 2017

Not sure which door to take? Look toward love.

When I was a student, we called young men and women who waffled for years...

September 07, 2017

Selling the Stranger in Our Midst: The Numbers Behind Immigration Policy

The Church has recognized and proclaimed the need to welcome young people: 'Whoever welcomes one...

September 01, 2017

The Church does not fit in your box

“I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

Kill Your Heroes: The Fall of Joss Whedon’s Feminism

It turns out that Hollywood "feminist" girl-power TV and movie director Joss Whedon is a...

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 02, 2017

“The disabled can only create unhappiness”: Why we need to talk about suffering

This morning I watched a L'Arche video about a massacre of disabled individuals that happened...

July 2017

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 23, 2017

Seven Quick Takes: Tea and Transitions

-1- There was a time when I did Seven Quick Takes most weeks. I went...

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...

May 2017

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 05, 2017

At The Personalist Project: The Political is Personal…is Political?

The Black Lives Matter movement is undoubtedly political. But it begins in the personal stories...

May 01, 2017

The Given Life (a book review)

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

March 2017

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 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 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...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

A Plea to America: Remember Who You Are

Something I think we lose sight of. America represented something different in the age of...

January 28, 2017

Torturing terrorists and hitting Nazis

Quotable words from a Facebook friend, applicable whenever we find ourselves cheering on violence...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Modesty and Avoiding Scrupulousity

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

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...