All posts by Devra Torres:
June, 2018
- Tracking the Person (0)
- Human Effort: What’s It For? (0)
- Ministry of Presence (1)
- The Trouble with Religious Art (0)
- Racking Up Points, Missing the Point. (0)
- “Drowning Evil in an Abundance of Good” (0)
May, 2018
- Jesus and the Twelve Stumblebums (0)
- Why “Mens Sana in Corpore Whatever” is Worth Dumping: or, The Four Sayings of Uncle Larry (0)
- A Twist on “Mary, Did You Know?” (2)
April, 2018
- Good News about Judgment Day (3)
- “Rejoice and Be Glad”: No Way Around It (3)
March, 2018
- Are We Supposed to Flatter God? (1)
- Jesus, model of resistance to manipulation (0)
- When Your Mother Forgets Who You Are (1)
- A God of Low Standards? The Ins and Outs of Mixed Motivations (4)
February, 2018
- A Personalist Theory of Magic (9)
- “God is realistic.” (2)
- Port Authority Personalism (0)
- Pro- or Anti-Bubble? (0)
January, 2018
- An Unlikely Pope Francis Moment (3)
December, 2017
- The Most Personalist Time of the Year (0)
- “Lead us not into translations.” (0)
- Margaret Sanger: How Did She Get That Way? (1)
- How Controlling Can You Get, Margaret Sanger? (0)
November, 2017
- Like It’s My Job (0)
- Of Potstickers and Excessive Objectivism (22)
- Pro-Euthanasia “Caregivers”? (2)
October, 2017
- Just Virtue Signaling? (1)
- Oy, Oy, Oy: The Personal, the Political and #metoo (3)
- Not About Fr. James Martin, But… (12)
September, 2017
- All Those Invisible Heroes (0)
- It Could Always Be Worse? (8)
August, 2017
- Immigration: Beyond Knee Jerks (0)
- The Trouble with Jack Chick (3)
- The Trouble with Pharisees (0)
July, 2017
- Uju Ekeocha Shows the Way (1)
- One More for Evie (3)
- Evie Peoples, Rest in Peace (0)
June, 2017
- The Joys of WorkoutAgony® (3)
- The Wisdom to Know the Difference (4)
- In Defense of Snowflakes (2)
May, 2017
- Error Has No Rights? (1)
- An attempt to articulate what bothers me about “You might not want to go to Heaven,” by Matt Walsh (10)
- There’s truth, and then there’s Truth: A Mother’s Day reflection (1)
- Pain and Suffering: Couldn’t God have figured out some other way? (1)
- Pain and Suffering: Couldn’t God have figured out some other way? (0)
April, 2017
- An Open Letter to Bill Nye the Science Guy (0)
- My Flying Lesson: In Defense of Fun (2)
- The Person She Used to Be? (0)
- How Not to Fix the Healthcare Mess (3)
March, 2017
- Gaslighting and its Near Relations (3)
- Rosa Pich, Widowed Mother of Eighteen (0)
- Preaching to the Choir (0)
- Be Like Chema: In Memoriam José María Postigo (3)
February, 2017
- The Power of Prayer? (2)
- Weaponizing People (0)
- Intersectional, Shmintersectional (0)
January, 2017
- Overheard at the Coffee Shop (0)
- Hopeless But Not Serious: Standing up to evil without losing your peace (4)
- Where Did I Go Wrong? (1)
- Not the Way I Would Run an Incarnation (2)
December, 2016
- Sometimes Baby Steps Don’t Cut It (2)
- On Not Growing Weary in Well-Doing (1)
- The Banks and Beauty Parlors of Grandma Europe (9)
- Rethinking Free Will? (4)
- Using Conversational Techniques on People: Abomination or Common Sense? (6)
November, 2016
- Imitation Diversity (1)
- Catholic Relief Services, Cash for the Homeless, and the Needs of Migrants: Unmasking False Dilemmas (3)
- Unlikely Pearls of Wisdom, and How Not to Miss Them (0)
- The Alongside Woman on Your Screen (1)
October, 2016
- Why is Adulting Suddenly So Hard? (0)
- About those Secular Pro-Lifers (3)
- Me? A Whitewashed Sepulcher? (5)
September, 2016
- One Weird Trick for Fixing What Ails Your Family Life! (1)
- Remember, Man, That Thou Art Meat? (0)
- Mrs. Jellyby vs. St. Teresa of Calcutta (5)
- 7 Quick Takes: Help for the Personalist Tech Addict (0)
August, 2016
- Egotism or Altruism? (Hint: It’s a trick question.) (1)
- Faith, Disney, and the Power of Negative Thinking (0)
- “The Sadness We Bring To A Diagnosis Should Not Become Our Child’s” (7)
- Blocked? Me? Or, My Journey from Righteous Indignation to a Modicum of Self-Awareness (2)
- “He Fit the Description.” (0)
- Naaman the Syrian and Me: On Finally Becaming a Novena Person (2)
- Beyond God as Boss Man (0)
- Jesus is Not Your Buddy, But… (6)
July, 2016
- Taking That First (Excruciatingly Obvious) Step (7)
- Maybe Everything We Know is Wrong. (1)
- Nitty-Gritty Applications of the “Universal Destination of Goods” (2)
June, 2016
- Aging Gracefully (Or Not) (5)
- Seven Quick Takes: Most Marriages are Invalid? (32)
May, 2016
- The Increasingly Blurry Line between Animal and Person (0)
- “Devious Dialogue” (0)
- What Are Miracles For? (0)
- “Loving Your Children’s Freedom” and other impossible ideals (0)
April, 2016
- “College Kids Say the Darndest Things”: Some Further Thoughts (2)
- The Limits of “Identifying As” (6)
- The Overregulated Soul (2)
- Check Your Privilege? An Obnoxious Mantra’s Grains of Truth (5)
March, 2016
- Facebook’s Foray into Emotional Response (0)
- “Stop calling breastfeeding ‘natural”? (0)
- “You needed to know what it felt like.” (0)
February, 2016
- The Power of “Offering It Up” (0)
- On the CDC and the Bizarrification of Nature (0)
- On Pink Elephants and Jen Fulwiler’s Conversion Story (5)
January, 2016
- “What is this you have done?” (0)
- About That “Do Unto Others” Part (0)
- “Money Does Not Change You; It Only Unmasks You” (and other thoughts on the Powerball jackpot) (1)
- Hanging Onto Your Free Will (All Day Long) (4)
- Irreverant Images? (0)
December, 2015
- The Good that Depends on Us: Jacques Philippe Meets Flylady (4)
- Becoming Robots? (0)
- About That Vatican Light Show (0)
- Everyday Forgiveness (8)
November, 2015
- Dr. Louise, Personalist Extraordinaire (0)
- The Women of ISIS and the Oscillating Line between Good and Evil (0)
- Ectogenic Pregnancy and other Terrible Ideas (0)
- “What Do You Want Me to Do for You?” (0)
October, 2015
- In Praise of the Inefficient Care of Persons (4)
- “What do you want me to do for you?” (0)
- The Limits of Teachable Moments (3)
September, 2015
- The Post-Francis Effect (3)
- An Afternoon with Pope Francis (0)
August, 2015
- A Seamless Garment of Evil (0)
July, 2015
- Defanging Dual-Action Buzzwords (0)
- Laudato Si: Beyond the talking points (3)
June, 2015
- Living on Borrowed Social Capital (3)
- Yesterday’s Feast Day of the Patron Saint of Everyday Life (1)
- Happy Fathers’ Day, Abba! (0)
- Venting and Lamenting (2)
- Bruce Jenner and the Primordial Given (11)
- Kristin Lavransdatter’s Crisis Pregnancy and Pope Francis’ Year of Mercy (0)
May, 2015
- “There are only persons.” (0)
- Ralph Martin and the Language of Personal Decision (6)
- Moms’ Night Out (a belated movie review) (0)
April, 2015
- Guns and Church (0)
- Moses and Jonah and Planned Parenthood and ISIS (0)
- Manipulating God (0)
March, 2015
- Are We Going Soft? (1)
- The Enemy of My Enemy (0)
- Mr. Crisco and the Feelings Chart (3)
- Martyrs and Migrants (0)
February, 2015
- Self-Improvement: You’re Doing It Wrong (0)
- Martyrs on Video (6)
- Beyond Male and Female? (6)
- Jane Austen, Call Your Office (2)
January, 2015
- Breaking the Seal, Soaking the Rich, Killing the Goose (0)
- A Divorce and Two Weddings (1)
- What is Value Blindness? (0)
- What is Reverence, Exactly? (0)
December, 2014
- New Year’s Resolutions and the Limits of Tools and Techniques (0)
- Happy Holydays! (0)
- The Weary World Rejoices (1)
- Assessment Run Amok (2)
November, 2014
- Who Cares What You Think? (2)
- Death with What? Brittany Maynard, Veterans Day, and the lure of the pseudo-obvious (2)
- The Trouble with Gurus (1)
- What’s at Stake (0)
October, 2014
- “High-Quality Love”: Four Questions to Ask Yourself (0)
- Factions (1)
- The Synod: Caricature and Reality (0)
- How I Spent My Autumn Vacation (1)
September, 2014
- The Trouble with Hagiography (5)
- “Soft Addictions” (1)
- Too Much, Too Little, Too Late (26)
August, 2014
- Becoming Who You Are, Even If You’re Not Sure Who That Is (7)
- Please Don’t Be a Human Ping Pong Ball! (0)
- Trayvon Martin and the Children of Iraq (and Syria, and Gaza, and Central America) (0)
- Do Personalism and Business Mix? (0)
July, 2014
- Juan Antonio and the Personalist Manager (2)
- Immigration: Impediments to the Conversation (26)
- Lois Lerner, Archie Bunker, and the Roving Liturgical Critic (0)
- Modesty and Other Skirmishes: Reassessing the Battle Lines (1)
June, 2014
- A New Wrinkle in the Modesty Debate (50)
- “Dialogue” and “Encounter”: Archbishop Cordileone Reclaims a Couple of Buzzwords (0)
- Where Do I Apply for my Introvert’s Exemption? (4)
May, 2014
- The Power of Bad Example (4)
- Pity the Veterans? (0)
- Evangelii Gaudium: The Rest of the Story (0)
- Beyond “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin” (9)
- “The Third Way: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” (7)
April, 2014
- Who Are We to Judge? (4)
- Protagoras and Me (3)
- Everybody’s a Critic (6)
March, 2014
- The Neomalthusianism of Captain Kirk (2)
February, 2014
- Surprise Diagnosis (0)
- The Worst Kind of Hobby (2)
- Should We Redistribute the Children? (6)
- Straight Talk about Unconditional Love (5)
January, 2014
- More Things in Heaven and Earth (1)
- What Would Tolkein Do? Mixed Feelings about Self-Promotion (11)
- New Year’s Resolution Reality Check (9)
- Giving Joy a Bad Name (0)
December, 2013
- The HHS, Then and Now (0)
- Evangelizing the Complacent (9)
- Admiration and the Spiritual Couch Potato (2)
- Merry Christmas, You Miserable Pagan! (2)
November, 2013
- Q & A with Jacques Philippe (1)
- Jacques Philippe in Ann Arbor, Part Two (0)
- Jacques Philippe in Ann Arbor(!) (0)
- Self Esteem without Selfishness: Now Available! (0)
- The Wide-Awake Life (3)
- Proselytism vs. Evangelism: Round Two (58)
October, 2013
- Solemn Nonsense: A How-To Guide (1)
- Opening Wide the Doors of the Field Hospital (2)
- Towards a Spirituality of Unknown Variables (1)
September, 2013
- A Problem of Translation? (11)
- Has Pope Francis Gone Too Far? (2)
- “No Good Options” (5)
- Efficiency for What? (0)
August, 2013
- How Not to Pray (10)
- God and Man at EMU (2)
July, 2013
- It’s Not My Fault! (10)
- Examining Your Examination of Conscience (2)
- Kicking the Anasthesia Habit (0)
June, 2013
- On Culture Shock and Spiritual Fibromyalgia (8)
- The Self-Referential Person: What I Didn’t Mean (3)
- On the Self-Referential Person (9)
- The Least I Need to Do (5)
- It’s Here! (1)
- Why You Shouldn’t Worry About What Pope Francis Might Do Next (0)
May, 2013
- Beyond God as Errand Boy (0)
- Social Media and the Crocodile in the Bedroom (0)
- My Personalist Mother (2)
- Beyond Biology (3)
April, 2013
- Reductionism and Other Mental Illnesses (4)
- Worse than a Nanny State (5)
- Sneak Preview (6)
- Of Charisms and Comfort Zones (5)
March, 2013
- All Things to All Men (3)
- Papa Francisco (1)
- The Chief Rabbi on Marriage, Part Two (8)
- The Chief Rabbi of France and the Irreversible Scrambling of Sexual Identity (8)
February, 2013
- Self-Esteem Without Selfishness: Increasing Your Capacity for Love (6)
- The Glorious Conformity of the Children of God? (0)
- Eternal Security and Personhood (0)
- “Catholic Witness in a Nation Divided” CDs Available (0)
- Dictatorship of Realism? (6)
- Seven Quick Takes: Immigration (16)
January, 2013
- The Circle of Irreplaceability: Making the Case for Marriage (3)
- From Pawns to Battering Rams, or What Are the Laypeople For? (3)
- Freedom of Religion vs. Freedom of Worship: More than Semantics (0)
- A “Personal” Lord and Savior? (4)
December, 2012
- Some Arguments Against Gay Marriage, and Why They Won’t Work (5)
- Gaudete Sunday by the Waters of Babylon (5)
- Prayer and Fasting: Taking it Personally (0)
- Fair Game: Enlarging your Religious Compartment (0)
November, 2012
- 7 Quick Takes: Consumerism and its Discontents (6)
- Back and Forth (2)
- Three Hopeful Consequences of an Awful Election (10)
- Coming Soon: Love and Self-Esteem in English! (2)
- Anti-Spontaneity (1)
October, 2012
- In Praise of Spontaneity, Under Certain Conditions (3)
- Peter (2)
- The Gabe Axiom (6)
- Making Sure We Don’t See God as Us Writ Large (continued) (5)
September, 2012
- A God in Our Image and Likeness (6)
- A Personalist Universe (8)
- Humor and Joy (0)
- Judge Not, Even During Election Season (7)
August, 2012
- In Praise of Hypocrisy (No, Not Really) (5)
- Overcoming Practical Pessimism (23)
- On Prayer, Both Second-Hand and Spontaneous (7)
- Judge Not, and Construct Not, Either. (5)
- C. S. Lewis on Forgiveness (2)
July, 2012
- God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life, But What If He Won’t Tell You What It Is? (28)
- Dr. Seuss: Personalist or Radical Individualist? (3)
- God is a Personalist: the anecdotal evidence (5)
- Grains of Truth (1)
June, 2012
- A Recovering Luddite Looks at the Internet (2)
- Love and Self-Esteem: English translation in progress (3)
- Kierkegaard Goes to Walmart (2)
- Overregulating the Person (9)
May, 2012
- Oh, No, Not That Again! Revisiting Self-Esteem (11)
- The Outsourced Self? (10)
- Judge Not? (8)
- Procreation and Human Dignity in the Philippines, or What About the Hard Cases? (2)
April, 2012
- In Defense of Unimpressive Persons (13)
- Diversity: Reclaiming a Buzzword (10)
- Catholicism and Personalism: Not Such Strange Bedfellows (20)
