| 9/30/20 |
Two different meanings of "systemic" (4) |
| 9/30/20 |
No masks at mass, please, unless you're sick or vulnerable (31) |
| 7/31/20 |
A timely hypothetical (9) |
| 6/30/20 |
Standing and misunderstanding (9) |
| 6/30/20 |
The time is at hand (7) |
| 5/31/20 |
A podcast about Newman's personalism (3) |
| 5/31/20 |
The gist of Acts 6 (5) |
| 10/31/19 |
Newman the personalist (1) |
| 8/31/19 |
Ecclesial fertility comes from a spousal relation between priest and laity (16) |
| 7/31/19 |
Reciprocity is a condition for achieving truth about all things personal (6) |
| 7/31/19 |
Back in the saddle (1) |
| 5/31/19 |
The spousal love between priest and laity is meant to be concrete and personal (8) |
| 5/31/19 |
Disagreeing with Weigel (5) |
| 3/31/19 |
The clericalist version of mansplaining (18) |
| 9/30/18 |
We need a new principle to balance "presumption of innocence" (3) |
| 8/31/18 |
It's not okay to pressure a Pope to resign (4) |
| 8/31/18 |
Money and the ecclesial status quo (3) |
| 6/30/18 |
Ministry of Presence (1) |
| 5/31/18 |
A Twist on "Mary, Did You Know?" (2) |
| 4/30/18 |
Do "Nice Guys" Finish Last? (1) |
| 4/30/18 |
Good News about Judgment Day (3) |
| 4/30/18 |
"Rejoice and Be Glad": No Way Around It (3) |
| 4/30/18 |
Is a well still a well if it runs dry? (1) |
| 3/31/18 |
When Your Mother Forgets Who You Are (1) |
| 3/31/18 |
What do I have against Archbishop Chaput? (2) |
| 3/31/18 |
A God of Low Standards? The Ins and Outs of Mixed Motivations (4) |
| 3/31/18 |
Are Boundaries Christian? Part Two (1) |
| 2/28/18 |
A Personalist Theory of Magic (9) |
| 2/28/18 |
"God is realistic." (2) |
| 2/28/18 |
W E B Dubois and/vs My Time in Detroit (2) |
| 2/28/18 |
Truths and Consequences (2) |
| 1/31/18 |
Women, Work, and the Mommy Wars (continued.) (25) |
| 1/31/18 |
"Your truth" is real and important (9) |
| 1/31/18 |
An Unlikely Pope Francis Moment (3) |
| 1/31/18 |
You're Not Special: A Lesson in Love (2) |
| 12/31/17 |
Puppy Love and the Weight of Shame (1) |
| 12/31/17 |
What is "accompaniment"? Part 1 (8) |
| 12/31/17 |
Margaret Sanger: How Did She Get That Way? (1) |
| 11/30/17 |
Why Do People Commit Sexual Assault? (13) |
| 11/30/17 |
Of Potstickers and Excessive Objectivism (22) |
| 11/30/17 |
Weep With Those Who Weep (2) |
| 11/30/17 |
A critique of Fr. Weinandy's letter to the Pope (21) |
| 10/31/17 |
Just Virtue Signaling? (1) |
| 10/31/17 |
Perilous Times? (2) |
| 10/31/17 |
Not About Fr. James Martin, But... (12) |
| 10/31/17 |
Don’t we need a coming-of-age sacrament? (6) |
| 9/30/17 |
it's a family affair (10) |
| 9/30/17 |
Protective purity: sex and the fear of use (7) |
| 9/30/17 |
What do I have against modesty? (5) |
| 9/30/17 |
It Could Always Be Worse? (8) |
| 8/31/17 |
Greeks, barbarians, and Nazis: a Response to Charlottesville (13) |
| 8/31/17 |
The Trouble with Jack Chick (3) |
| 7/31/17 |
Could there be a Zen Personalism? (2) |
| 7/31/17 |
Uju Ekeocha Shows the Way (1) |
| 7/31/17 |
Thoughts on subjectivity (3) |
| 6/30/17 |
The Wisdom to Know the Difference (4) |
| 6/30/17 |
In Defense of Snowflakes (2) |
| 6/30/17 |
An example of what I mean by "slave side morality" (2) |
| 5/31/17 |
An attempt to articulate what bothers me about "You might not want to go to Heaven," by Matt Walsh (10) |
| 5/31/17 |
Please stop defining love as self-giving! (1) |
| 5/31/17 |
The difference subjectivity makes: a tiny anecdote (13) |
| 5/31/17 |
Pain and Suffering: Couldn't God have figured out some other way? (1) |
| 4/30/17 |
The Autonomy Argument: Conclusion (1) |
| 4/30/17 |
My Flying Lesson: In Defense of Fun (2) |
| 2/28/17 |
The Power of Prayer? (2) |
| 2/28/17 |
Polyester Robes (2) |
| 1/31/17 |
Hopeless But Not Serious: Standing up to evil without losing your peace (4) |
| 1/31/17 |
Where Did I Go Wrong? (1) |
| 12/31/16 |
Looking for Love in the Manger (3) |
| 12/31/16 |
The Banks and Beauty Parlors of Grandma Europe (9) |
| 12/31/16 |
Rethinking Free Will? (4) |
| 12/31/16 |
Contra the Dubia, part 3: the explanatory note [corrective comment added] (8) |
| 12/31/16 |
Using Conversational Techniques on People: Abomination or Common Sense? (6) |
| 12/31/16 |
Contra the Dubia (7) |
| 11/30/16 |
Imitation Diversity (1) |
| 11/30/16 |
All Saints day and the artist's vocation (3) |
| 11/30/16 |
Personalism at the graveside (6) |
| 10/31/16 |
About those Secular Pro-Lifers (3) |
| 10/31/16 |
Me? A Whitewashed Sepulcher? (5) |
| 10/31/16 |
Julia (3) |
| 9/30/16 |
One Weird Trick for Fixing What Ails Your Family Life! (1) |
| 8/31/16 |
"The Sadness We Bring To A Diagnosis Should Not Become Our Child’s" (7) |
| 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 |
Modesty and the Ontological Shaming of Both Women and Men (6) |
| 7/31/16 |
Nitty-Gritty Applications of the "Universal Destination of Goods" (2) |
| 6/30/16 |
Aging Gracefully (Or Not) (5) |
| 6/30/16 |
Pride, Humility, and Self-knowledge (2) |
| 5/31/16 |
The fear of the slave (4) |
| 5/31/16 |
America Magazine reviews "My Battle Against Hitler" (3) |
| 4/30/16 |
"College Kids Say the Darndest Things": Some Further Thoughts (2) |
| 2/29/16 |
On Pink Elephants and Jen Fulwiler's Conversion Story (5) |
| 1/31/16 |
FFMD, #4: Modesty and interiority (8) |
| 1/31/16 |
Empathy, photography, and perception: Thoughts on the public display of graphic abortion images (2) |
| 12/31/15 |
The Good that Depends on Us: Jacques Philippe Meets Flylady (4) |
| 12/31/15 |
Everyday Forgiveness (8) |
| 11/30/15 |
A lack of symmetry between insisting on repentance and pleading for forgiveness (5) |
| 10/31/15 |
A real life example of the theology of the body (16) |
| 9/30/15 |
Impersonal Activism (8) |
| 8/31/15 |
Some essential differences between Christian and Islamic views of feminine sexuality (3) |
| 7/31/15 |
It's my evil too (2) |
| 7/31/15 |
Unhappy 4th (12) |
| 6/30/15 |
Moral goodness doesn't come through punishment (12) |
| 6/30/15 |
The power of the Supreme Court (9) |
| 5/31/15 |
Wellness and pain (1) |
| 5/31/15 |
Truth and Tolerance, part 2 (2) |
| 5/31/15 |
Truth and Tolerance, part 1 (7) |
| 4/30/15 |
The prodigal liberality of the father (13) |
| 2/28/15 |
Martyrs on Video (6) |
| 1/31/15 |
Parting ways (4) |
| 12/31/14 |
Some power struggles are good and necessary (4) |
| 7/31/14 |
Searching for community (105) |
| 7/31/14 |
Tenderness and gallantry (2) |
| 7/31/14 |
Immigration: Impediments to the Conversation (26) |
| 7/31/14 |
Cardinal Dolan disappoints (26) |
| 7/31/14 |
Modesty and misogyny (19) |
| 6/30/14 |
A New Wrinkle in the Modesty Debate (50) |
| 6/30/14 |
Thoughts on modesty abroad, in three vignettes (32) |
| 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 |
The Gift of Joy (4) |
| 4/30/14 |
Protagoras and Me (3) |
| 3/31/14 |
Marriage and Freedom (7) |
| 2/28/14 |
fired for pregnancy (10) |
| 9/30/13 |
On minding our own beeswax and letting the Pope be Pope (48) |
| 8/31/13 |
Self-possession precedes self-giving (23) |
| 7/31/13 |
It's Not My Fault! (10) |
| 7/31/13 |
Separating sex and love (8) |
| 7/31/13 |
Anniversary interview with Alice von Hildebrand (5) |
| 7/31/13 |
Von Hildebrand conference underway (2) |
| 7/31/13 |
Fake wisdom (4) |
| 7/31/13 |
On the problem of overlooking not-beautiful women (1) |
| 6/30/13 |
8 Reminders for fathers of marriageable daughters (11) |
| 6/30/13 |
Interview with Hannah Arendt (4) |
| 3/31/13 |
A few personalist insights about conjugal love (10) |
| 3/31/13 |
The sudden moral inversion (5) |
| 2/28/13 |
Self-Esteem Without Selfishness: Increasing Your Capacity for Love (6) |
| 1/31/13 |
Who decides? (11) |
| 1/31/13 |
Passive aggression is not a synonym for non-violent resistance (2) |
| 8/31/12 |
Do husbands have authority over their wives? (65) |
| 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 |
Are wives supposed to submit to their husbands? (40) |
| 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 |
Guilty of Unprincipled Forgiveness or Model Christian? (92) |
| 7/31/12 |
Persons, Friendship & Technology (8) |
| 6/30/12 |
Obama's Empericism (4) |
| 6/30/12 |
The concept of unprincipled forgiveness (45) |
| 6/30/12 |
Despite the Hype, Toss PowerPoint in the Can (6) |
| 6/30/12 |
Blankenhorn succumbs to gay marriage advocacy (8) |
| 5/31/12 |
Defilement and the Challenge of Addressing Evil (11) |
| 5/31/12 |
Purity of Heart, Part 2 (3) |
| 5/31/12 |
To speak or not to speak: a dilemma in the debate surrounding SSM (17) |
| 5/31/12 |
Is Kierkegaard expecting too much from mere mortals? (6) |
| 4/30/12 |
Response to Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart (4) |
| 3/31/12 |
Has the USA become a Totalitarian State? Grave Attacks on the Freedom of Faith Conscience and Creed (11) |
| 1/31/12 |
A personalist approach to the Pro-life cause (2) |
| 1/31/12 |
From "pro-choice" to ardently pro-life (4) |
| 12/31/11 |
Genuine Religion and Conventional Religion in the Current Season (1) |
| 12/31/11 |
First Reading Circle podcast (13) |
