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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...

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 25, 2018

Actions Speak Loudest: Arnie Clarke (Four Weeks of Fine Men #5)

This is a guest post by Sheila Marie Connolly, who agreed to write about her...

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 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...

February 19, 2018

Lovely in Eyes Not His

I loved Mr. Rogers when I was a child. Simcha has a lovely reflection...

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 01, 2017

Seven Takes in Seven Words or Less (sort of)

1. Thoughts during the Santa Claus Parade Good riddance, November! December already? Ack! 2....

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,...

November 15, 2017

“Who is the most important in your family?” and other foolish questions from John Rosemond

Over at The Personalist Project today, I am taking a look at parenting columnist John...

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 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 14, 2017

The Peace of Wild Things

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

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 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...

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...

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...