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September 2012

September 19, 2012

“Hey! I didn’t say ‘Science Says'”

Helen Rittelmeyer is blogging and writing again. She just contributed to the American Spectator's Youth Symposium,...

September 17, 2012

The Sporting Life

Elliot had a great comment on the sports, courage, and risk discussion, and I wanted...

September 15, 2012

Where will you train your courage?

My post on the horrors of football sparked an interesting conversation about courage and character....

September 06, 2012

If you can’t take the heat… once more with feeling

Can I interest you in a musical theatre illustration of my point from earlier today?...

September 06, 2012

If you can’t take the heat, turn into a tardigrade!

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" is a quote that is...

September 04, 2012

That Moment We Saw You For What You Really Are

The "Welcome to JT" thread has digressed into a number of interesting discussions (parental authority...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

I’m at First Things today!

Remember the post last week on careers and hookup culture where I eschewed punny titles...

August 24, 2012

Aaaahhh! Aaaaahhhhh! AAAAAaaaaahhhhhhHHHH!

That's my knee jerk reaction to Hanna Rosin's new piece for the Atlantic on whether women...

August 23, 2012

“What do you wanna [stay single] for?”

I'm delighted to say that Christian H of The Thinking Grounds has sent in a...

August 21, 2012

Who are you dressed up as today?

Since we've been talking about theatre, (and had a guest post from an actress) I...

August 13, 2012

“Maybe we just weren’t meant to have children” [Sondheim]

I want to kick off the Sondheim Symposium this week with a guest post by...

August 10, 2012

Offering Loving Resistance [Sequence Index]

In July 2012, Patheos sent me a copy of Logan Mehl-Laituri's memoir Reborn on the...

August 07, 2012

What would someone have to say to you to get you to break up your family?

For your own good at that. This isn't a hypothetical question. There are plenty of...

August 06, 2012

On Value-Neutral Bravery

Back before I went off to awesome, wacky summer camp (a few more things to come...

August 02, 2012

I’m only writing once on Chik-fil-a

Seriously, I thought it was pronounced Chick-fil-uh. That's not the main reason I haven't posted...

July 2012

July 19, 2012

Brave Enough to Kill

The Pentagon is considering awarding Distinguished Warfare Medals to drone pilots and Glen Greenwald is...

July 18, 2012

All of This (bad behavior) Has Happened Before…

When a Christian church got tagged with atheist-themed graffiti last year, I chipped in for repairs,...

July 16, 2012

What Can You Do in the War?

Given the way our discussion of pacifism has meandered over to a debate about martyrdom,...

July 13, 2012

And what did you win with your death?

There's a lot of interesting discussion happening in the comments of my post on...

July 12, 2012

Morality isn’t only hard on special occasions

In the discussion of St. Thomas More's martydom, and how it helps me understand moral...

July 11, 2012

A Martyr for All Seasons

Two weeks ago, I had an absolutely lovely time reading A Man for All Seasons...

July 07, 2012

“That his heels may kick at heaven”

Some time ago, Hemant Mehta asked "Where are the atheist fiction books?" and I was...

July 03, 2012

Baby and Mommy and Mommy and Daddy

Rod Dreher is upset about a bill in California that would allow a child to...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Q&A with Shameless Popery + Radio Roundup

I've been triaging email as well as comments, but when someone contacts me for a...

May 2012

May 22, 2012

Go Ahead, Tell Me What’s Wrong with Homosexuality

One of the reasons I found the "gay brownshirts" argument so frustrating is that it's...

May 18, 2012

Remember that chat we had about Nazi analogies?

The post was "It’s hard for me to hear you over the sound of your...

May 15, 2012

When Moral Hazard is the Safest Course

Patheos blogger Thomas McDonald of God and the Machine is horrified by the FDA's recommendation...

May 04, 2012

Scared of Darwin for All the Wrong Reasons

UPDATE: I've expanded a response to a commenter in a new post: "Have Humans 'Won'...

May 03, 2012