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February 2018

February 19, 2018

Lovely in Eyes Not His

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

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 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...

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 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 08, 2017

The Immediate Book Meme (SQT)

I have other writing I need to do today, but I'm finding it difficult to...

August 2017

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...

July 2017

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 05, 2017

What Parenting Taught Me About Marriage

Nobody is responsible for anyone else's feelings, but we are all responsible for our own...

May 2017

May 09, 2017

Can we praise mothers on Mother’s Day?

This Sunday, perhaps we can pray that we all find the grace to rejoice with...

April 2017

April 11, 2017

When marriage hurts

There's a powerful guest post over at Simcha Fisher's blog today about abuse in Catholic...

March 2017

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 16, 2017

More Dangerous Than Bullets, continued

In my earlier post, I asked, "How does a modern, educated, middle-class child become an...

January 2017

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...