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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,...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

No Hiding Place for McCarrick in the age of Me Too

Cardinal McCarrick. Or should I say, ex-Cardinal McCarrick. Lord have mercy. I assume you've all heard...

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...

May 20, 2018

Four Weeks of Fine Men

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

April 2018

April 20, 2018

The Romantic Myth of the Ethno-National Underdog

The basis of the idea of ethno-states is the assumption that coexistence and pluralism pose...

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 22, 2018

Data-based Gun Policy Links

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

January 2018

January 19, 2018

The Rise of the Fratriarchy

The New Republic, musing over the political Right's embrace of Donald Trump and his libertine...

November 2017

November 18, 2017

Guarding the Sanctity of the Sick Pilgrim and the Broken Spirit

Yesterday, I ranted briefly about "Men Behaving Badly to Get Their Rocks Off." The big...

November 17, 2017

Can We Just Not Do This Anymore, Please? Seven Quick Fed-Up Takes

Lord, if You're listening, I know You are really fond of this Freely-Given Love thing,...

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 20, 2017

My Bullet Journal is Firing Blanks (SQT, Week in Review Edition)

--- 1 --- How is it Friday again already? Where has this week gone? I'm not...

October 12, 2017

“What do NFL protesters want, anyway?” Cultivating the Virtue of Curiousity

I spend a lot of time with Google. When I was a child, arguments between...

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 30, 2017

Bunny in a Dark Labyrinth: Trauma and Choice in a Playboy World (Guest Post)

It's an incredibly complicated thing when your personhood has been crushed through sexual exploitation.

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 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 15, 2017

LifeSiteNews gets it wrong about abolition–and everything else

This is the first part of a three-part essay on single-issue activism and social justice. ...

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...

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 13, 2017

A Litany for Charlottesville

St. Martin de Porres, pray for us St. Josephine Bakhita, pray for us St. Antonio...

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...

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...

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 01, 2017

The Given Life (a book review)

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

March 2017

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...

February 2017

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...