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February 2018

February 12, 2018

White Supremacy is Not Mere “Difference of Opinion”

If the one thing you’re willing to tolerate is white supremacy, I'm going to take...

February 10, 2018

In Defending Life, Draw the Circle Wide

A true ethic of life means drawing the circle of "what lives are owed protection"...

February 07, 2018

How Safe Can Our Art Be?

There's sacrifice demanded by art, but this doesn't mean you sacrifice the lives of others...

February 02, 2018

Respect Begins in Acknowledging the Mystery of the Other

One of them joked, “I don’t usually try to explain things to wives!”

January 2018

January 30, 2018

What’s Amiss in our Catholic Sexual Education?

I was taught that these men would never hurt me

January 22, 2018

A Brief Statement on Grammar and Ethics, for the Spies and Screenshotters Out There

I take a both-and approach, as asserted in my screenshotted statement, and in all my...

January 21, 2018

The Poison of Sexual Politics – Even in Christian Dating Culture

I stayed, and like the good girl I had been trained to be, I obeyed....

January 20, 2018

My Statement on the 2018 March for Life

I stand for a movement that seeks to protect all life, but also recognizes the...

January 15, 2018

Am I a Racist? An Examination of Conscience

The first step in freeing oneself from sin, after all, is admitting that one is...

January 05, 2018

Sexual Moral Relativism from the Religious Right?

This is not, unfortunately, the first time I have witnessed the claim that Moore’s misconduct...

October 2017

October 16, 2017

Not You? Then This is Especially For You

Victims need allies in spaces of power

October 11, 2017

On NFP: Conversations that Need to Happen

"I did it, you can too," is never a viable response to someone who is...

October 04, 2017

It’s Not Just About the Hypocrisy: Representative Tim Murphy, Abortion, and the Problem with Rejecting Consistent Life Ethics

what these men and their supporters represent was never truly pro-life at all

September 2017

September 16, 2017

Join us in the Revolution of Tenderness

I believe literature is by its very nature interdisciplinary, and creates a space in which...

September 08, 2017

“Fine Folks” and the Banality of Evil

The degeneration into evil happens for the most trivial reasons, in a bourgeois middle-class manner,...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Why the Pro-Life Movement Needs to Be Rebuilt

In recent weeks, I have observed an alarming uptick in tolerance for racism among Catholic...

August 15, 2017

Does Opposing Nazis Make You “Leftist”?

How many pleasant, decent, respectable Republicans are framing this as a conflict between two political...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Women’s Literature: The Stories That Are Not Told

The radical idea that women are people too still hasn’t entirely caught on.

July 20, 2017

A Defense of Game of Thrones

Admitting that I am a fan of the hugest TV hit series of the moment...

June 2017

June 15, 2017

What Do Almost All Mass Shooters Have in Common?

Is there a cultural trend that promotes violence for some people? Is there a cultural...

June 01, 2017

With the Paris Accord, Listen to our Popes – Not Trump

Why can we not see how our sinfulness mars the very soil on which we...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

On Selective Outrage: Kathy Griffin, Trump, Obama, and the Right

I thought her display disturbing, and her apology insincere.

May 29, 2017

When the Right Supports the Burning of the Flag

But there are some things no power, state or federal, has a right to decree.

May 26, 2017

Pro-Life Sexual Ethics Without Punishment or Shame

Bottom line: there is no excuse for Christians to fail to be merciful toward sexual...

May 24, 2017

Abortion: the Most Important Moral Issue Ever….Except for When it’s Not

Let that sink in. A young woman in a crisis pregnancy chose life, but Christians...

May 18, 2017

When You Say You’re Not a Racist

White people hate being accused of racism. When topics of racism come up, among White...

May 08, 2017

the power of negative thinking

Convenient amnesia about one’s own past failures: drop-outs, firings, unplanned pregnancies, delinquencies? Never happened. Mind...

May 04, 2017

how not to be pro-life: a quick overview

Tell parents of disabled children to start a GoFundMe, or maybe a bake sale! It's...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Women As “Gatekeepers of Morality”: A Recipe for Abuse

Why is it always the women who are expected to reform the men?

April 27, 2017

my other problem with the “Benedict Option”

If students are being proselytized and shielded from any alternative views, they will not acquire...