| 4/30/18 |
"Rejoice and Be Glad": No Way Around It (3) |
| 2/28/18 |
Are Boundaries Christian? Part One (3) |
| 2/28/18 |
"God is realistic." (2) |
| 11/30/17 |
Of Potstickers and Excessive Objectivism (22) |
| 10/31/17 |
Oy, Oy, Oy: The Personal, the Political and #metoo (3) |
| 10/31/17 |
Not About Fr. James Martin, But... (12) |
| 9/30/17 |
It Could Always Be Worse? (8) |
| 8/31/17 |
The Trouble with Jack Chick (3) |
| 7/31/17 |
One More for Evie (3) |
| 6/30/17 |
The Joys of WorkoutAgony® (3) |
| 6/30/17 |
The Wisdom to Know the Difference (4) |
| 5/31/17 |
An attempt to articulate what bothers me about "You might not want to go to Heaven," by Matt Walsh (10) |
| 4/30/17 |
My Flying Lesson: In Defense of Fun (2) |
| 4/30/17 |
How Not to Fix the Healthcare Mess (3) |
| 4/30/17 |
A Sad Question (1) |
| 3/31/17 |
Gaslighting and its Near Relations (3) |
| 2/28/17 |
The Power of Prayer? (2) |
| 1/31/17 |
Hopeless But Not Serious: Standing up to evil without losing your peace (4) |
| 1/31/17 |
Not the Way I Would Run an Incarnation (2) |
| 12/31/16 |
Sometimes Baby Steps Don't Cut It (2) |
| 12/31/16 |
Using Conversational Techniques on People: Abomination or Common Sense? (6) |
| 11/30/16 |
Subjectivity and conscience (3) |
| 8/31/16 |
Naaman the Syrian and Me: On Finally Becaming a Novena Person (2) |
| 8/31/16 |
Jesus is Not Your Buddy, But... (6) |
| 7/31/16 |
Taking That First (Excruciatingly Obvious) Step (7) |
| 7/31/16 |
Nitty-Gritty Applications of the "Universal Destination of Goods" (2) |
| 6/30/16 |
Aging Gracefully (Or Not) (5) |
| 6/30/16 |
Seven Quick Takes: Most Marriages are Invalid? (32) |
| 4/30/16 |
The Limits of "Identifying As" (6) |
| 4/30/16 |
The Overregulated Soul (2) |
| 4/30/16 |
Check Your Privilege? An Obnoxious Mantra's Grains of Truth (5) |
| 2/29/16 |
On Pink Elephants and Jen Fulwiler's Conversion Story (5) |
| 1/31/16 |
Hanging Onto Your Free Will (All Day Long) (4) |
| 12/31/15 |
The Good that Depends on Us: Jacques Philippe Meets Flylady (4) |
| 12/31/15 |
Everyday Forgiveness (8) |
| 10/31/15 |
In Praise of the Inefficient Care of Persons (4) |
| 10/31/15 |
The Limits of Teachable Moments (3) |
| 9/30/15 |
The Post-Francis Effect (3) |
| 8/31/15 |
Taking Subjectivity Seriously (without sinking into subjectivism) (22) |
| 7/31/15 |
Virtue Privilege? (6) |
| 7/31/15 |
Laudato Si: Beyond the talking points (3) |
| 6/30/15 |
Living on Borrowed Social Capital (3) |
| 6/30/15 |
Bruce Jenner and the Primordial Given (11) |
| 5/31/15 |
Ralph Martin and the Language of Personal Decision (6) |
| 4/30/15 |
The prodigal liberality of the father (13) |
| 2/28/15 |
Martyrs on Video (6) |
| 2/28/15 |
Beyond Male and Female? (6) |
| 2/28/15 |
Jane Austen, Call Your Office (2) |
| 1/31/15 |
Redesigned website (2) |
| 12/31/14 |
Assessment Run Amok (2) |
| 11/30/14 |
Who Cares What You Think? (2) |
| 11/30/14 |
Death with What? Brittany Maynard, Veterans Day, and the lure of the pseudo-obvious (2) |
| 9/30/14 |
The Trouble with Hagiography (5) |
| 9/30/14 |
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late (26) |
| 8/31/14 |
Becoming Who You Are, Even If You're Not Sure Who That Is (7) |
| 7/31/14 |
Juan Antonio and the Personalist Manager (2) |
| 7/31/14 |
Immigration: Impediments to the Conversation (26) |
| 7/31/14 |
Cardinal Dolan disappoints (26) |
| 6/30/14 |
A New Wrinkle in the Modesty Debate (50) |
| 6/30/14 |
Where Do I Apply for my Introvert's Exemption? (4) |
| 5/31/14 |
The Power of Bad Example (4) |
| 5/31/14 |
Beyond "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin" (9) |
| 5/31/14 |
"The Third Way: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church" (7) |
| 4/30/14 |
Who Are We to Judge? (4) |
| 4/30/14 |
Protagoras and Me (3) |
| 4/30/14 |
Everybody's a Critic (6) |
| 3/31/14 |
The Neomalthusianism of Captain Kirk (2) |
| 2/28/14 |
Should We Redistribute the Children? (6) |
| 2/28/14 |
Straight Talk about Unconditional Love (5) |
| 1/31/14 |
What Would Tolkein Do? Mixed Feelings about Self-Promotion (11) |
| 1/31/14 |
How to rid yourself of gall (4) |
| 1/31/14 |
New Year's Resolution Reality Check (9) |
| 12/31/13 |
Edith Stein, Heidegger, and Conversion (11) |
| 12/31/13 |
Evangelizing the Complacent (9) |
| 12/31/13 |
Parenting Persons (6) |
| 12/31/13 |
Merry Christmas, You Miserable Pagan! (2) |
| 11/30/13 |
The Wide-Awake Life (3) |
| 11/30/13 |
Proselytism vs. Evangelism: Round Two (58) |
| 10/31/13 |
Opening Wide the Doors of the Field Hospital (2) |
| 9/30/13 |
A Problem of Translation? (11) |
| 9/30/13 |
Has Pope Francis Gone Too Far? (2) |
| 9/30/13 |
"No Good Options" (5) |
| 8/31/13 |
How Not to Pray (10) |
| 8/31/13 |
Coming Out Celibate (9) |
| 8/31/13 |
God and Man at EMU (2) |
| 7/31/13 |
It's Not My Fault! (10) |
| 6/30/13 |
On Culture Shock and Spiritual Fibromyalgia (8) |
| 6/30/13 |
8 Reminders for fathers of marriageable daughters (11) |
| 6/30/13 |
The Self-Referential Person: What I Didn't Mean (3) |
| 6/30/13 |
On the Self-Referential Person (9) |
| 6/30/13 |
The Least I Need to Do (5) |
| 6/30/13 |
Why You Shouldn't Worry About What Pope Francis Might Do Next (0) |
| 5/31/13 |
My Personalist Mother (2) |
| 5/31/13 |
Tenderness and maturity (7) |
| 5/31/13 |
Beyond Biology (3) |
| 4/30/13 |
Reductionism and Other Mental Illnesses (4) |
| 4/30/13 |
Not all pursuit of truth is good (4) |
| 4/30/13 |
The bible: which parts are culturally relative, which parts are timeless? (18) |
| 4/30/13 |
Worse than a Nanny State (5) |
| 4/30/13 |
Sneak Preview (6) |
| 4/30/13 |
Of Charisms and Comfort Zones (5) |
| 3/31/13 |
All Things to All Men (3) |
| 3/31/13 |
The Chief Rabbi on Marriage, Part Two (8) |
| 3/31/13 |
The Chief Rabbi of France and the Irreversible Scrambling of Sexual Identity (8) |
| 2/28/13 |
Self-Esteem Without Selfishness: Increasing Your Capacity for Love (6) |
| 2/28/13 |
God's will and ours: how they meet (10) |
| 2/28/13 |
Our decisions belong to us; we are responsible for them (47) |
| 2/28/13 |
Person, office, freedom, duty (1) |
| 2/28/13 |
Mental injustices an obstacle to communion (5) |
| 2/28/13 |
Dictatorship of Realism? (6) |
| 2/28/13 |
Seven Quick Takes: Immigration (16) |
| 1/31/13 |
The Circle of Irreplaceability: Making the Case for Marriage (3) |
| 1/31/13 |
From Pawns to Battering Rams, or What Are the Laypeople For? (3) |
| 1/31/13 |
A "Personal" Lord and Savior? (4) |
| 12/31/12 |
Some Arguments Against Gay Marriage, and Why They Won't Work (5) |
| 12/31/12 |
To medicalize evil is to deny personal dignity (6) |
| 12/31/12 |
Gaudete Sunday by the Waters of Babylon (5) |
| 11/30/12 |
7 Quick Takes: Consumerism and its Discontents (6) |
| 11/30/12 |
Three Hopeful Consequences of an Awful Election (10) |
| 10/31/12 |
In Praise of Halloween (4) |
| 10/31/12 |
The Gabe Axiom (6) |
| 10/31/12 |
Making Sure We Don't See God as Us Writ Large (continued) (5) |
| 9/30/12 |
Parents, Share Your Faults with Your Kids. They Love It! (3) |
| 9/30/12 |
A God in Our Image and Likeness (6) |
| 9/30/12 |
One More Time: Man and Woman, Head and Heart, Equality and Complementarity (21) |
| 9/30/12 |
A Personalist Universe (8) |
| 9/30/12 |
How should a Catholic university treat gay alumni? (19) |
| 9/30/12 |
Personalist meditation of the day (2) |
| 9/30/12 |
Judge Not, Even During Election Season (7) |
| 9/30/12 |
Whom shall we serve? God or Government? (1) |
| 8/31/12 |
In Praise of Hypocrisy (No, Not Really) (5) |
| 8/31/12 |
Overcoming Practical Pessimism (23) |
| 8/31/12 |
Equality and Leadership in Marriage: the Example of Van and Davy (23) |
| 8/31/12 |
Boys Love, Not Just to Hit, But to Get Hit. Are Girls the Same? (6) |
| 8/31/12 |
On Prayer, Both Second-Hand and Spontaneous (7) |
| 8/31/12 |
Mark Shea jumps the shark on Paul Ryan (18) |
| 8/31/12 |
Are wives supposed to submit to their husbands? (40) |
| 8/31/12 |
Judge Not, and Construct Not, Either. (5) |
| 8/31/12 |
Two things I dislike (1) |
| 8/31/12 |
C. S. Lewis on Forgiveness (2) |
| 7/31/12 |
God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life, But What If He Won't Tell You What It Is? (28) |
| 7/31/12 |
Dr. Seuss: Personalist or Radical Individualist? (3) |
| 7/31/12 |
God is a Personalist: the anecdotal evidence (5) |
| 7/31/12 |
Forgiveness and dysfunction (25) |
| 6/30/12 |
Despite the Hype, Toss PowerPoint in the Can (6) |
| 6/30/12 |
Symptoms of Deeper Problems in Muslim Theocracies (as in Western Democracies) (1) |
| 6/30/12 |
Love and Self-Esteem: English translation in progress (3) |
| 6/30/12 |
Kierkegaard Goes to Walmart (2) |
| 6/30/12 |
Toward a Personalist Approach to Homosexual Attraction (12) |
| 6/30/12 |
The post-modern loss of truth (2) |
| 6/30/12 |
Overregulating the Person (9) |
| 5/31/12 |
A Problem and a Fear about SSM (5) |
| 5/31/12 |
Oh, No, Not That Again! Revisiting Self-Esteem (11) |
| 5/31/12 |
The Outsourced Self? (10) |
| 5/31/12 |
Cardinal George sounds a strong warning (12) |
| 5/31/12 |
Is Kierkegaard expecting too much from mere mortals? (6) |
| 5/31/12 |
Judge Not? (8) |
| 5/31/12 |
Faith: real and concrete and human (4) |
| 5/31/12 |
Misery and Earthly Optimism (2) |
| 5/31/12 |
Procreation and Human Dignity in the Philippines, or What About the Hard Cases? (2) |
| 5/31/12 |
Teach your children well (10) |
| 4/30/12 |
Misery and Escapism (3) |
| 4/30/12 |
In Defense of Unimpressive Persons (13) |
| 4/30/12 |
Should A Cardinal Confirm A Practicing Homosexual Parish Council Member? Some Critical Reflections (16) |
| 4/30/12 |
Angst and the Christian Life (4) |
| 4/30/12 |
What The Hunger Games miss (53) |
| 4/30/12 |
Diversity: Reclaiming a Buzzword (10) |
| 4/30/12 |
Silence (4) |
| 4/30/12 |
Catholicism and Personalism: Not Such Strange Bedfellows (20) |
| 3/31/12 |
What's wrong with opining (1) |
| 3/31/12 |
Two Thoughts on "One Flesh" (15) |
