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July 2014

July 22, 2014

A prayer for the feast of St. Mary Magdelene

By St. Anselm:St. Mary Magdalene, you came with springing tears to the spring of mercy,...

July 06, 2014

Our Vocation is to Die

Friday, in my quick takes, I sat down to write something about the evil in...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Drawing on the unused side of my brain

I bought a copy of the Drawing on the Right Side of your Brain workbook...

May 2014

May 23, 2014

Seven Quick Takes: Lazy Edition

Laundry is calling my name, and a dozen other things, so this week's Quick Takes...

May 16, 2014

Seven Quick Takes, Chest cold edition

--- 1 ---I'm not sure if I can come up with 7 takes this week,...

May 02, 2014

Link Love: Seven Quick Takes

1. Yesterday I mentioned "sitting with" pain or suffering (as well as learning to sit with...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

I love this

I ran across this years ago, but it never fails to delight me. I think...

April 26, 2014

Not just another personality cult

In honor of the canonization of Pope John Paul II, I am posting an article...

April 25, 2014

Why I am a feminist

I was looking for this post yesterday. Here is the post where I explain, briefly,...

April 24, 2014

Post ideas

There's a lot roiling in my brain tonight, and I won't be able to sit...

April 14, 2014

Quotable — Laying down your Life

Good Shepherds are willing to lay down their lives for their sheep. As spiritual leaders...

April 11, 2014

Seven Quick (and Random) Takes

1. It's been a long winter, and it is finally over! The sun is shining,...

April 10, 2014

At the Personalist Project: “A Tower that will Pierce the Clouds”

A couple of weeks ago, I picked up a book called An Astronaut's Guide to...

March 2014

March 28, 2014

Is my husband a ham sandwich?

So I received a comment on my marriage post that was so bizarre as to...

March 28, 2014

The discussion of marriage continues

With this from Calah Alexander, who takes a discussion about infidelity and the sacrament of...

March 26, 2014

Some words of experience and wisdom

I've been thinking about "the pursuit of happiness" and the way we want the same...

March 23, 2014

On a related note

I've written more about Ms. Smith's expression of certainty in her marriage, and the theological...

March 21, 2014

Risk and reward

The Atlantic has a fantastic piece about the importance of exposing kids to moderate risks--by...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Seven Quick Takes in our new home

So we've had some big changes around here. Two weeks ago, the kids and I...

February 27, 2014

Pray for Ukraine

I have a lot to blog about. The kids and I have been living on...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

Called to Love

December 28, 2013

Saving New Orleans; saving ourselves. (With illustrations.)

A friend of mine posted a link to this post, which is a couple years...

December 20, 2013

Sharing God’s mercy

is the nephew of a woman I know. This young couple and their three...

December 13, 2013

Parenting the children we have

I have a piece up at the Personalist Project about parenting theories...and practice.The parent who...

December 12, 2013

Wrestling with the Angel

NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands...

December 10, 2013

Who decides what ‘feminism’ is?

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

December 09, 2013

Do we really hate creativity?

This piece in Slate argues that, for all of our societal glorification of creativity and...

December 06, 2013

What I’m Reading this Morning

I've tried to avoid reading too much coverage of Pope Francis' exhortation until I finish...

December 05, 2013

The prison within

This is also well worth reading. An excerpt that struck me:He behaved as if his...

December 03, 2013

Loving, not using, my children

So, Matt Walsh (who occasionally drives me a little bonkers when he gets on his...