| 5/31/20 |
The gist of Acts 6 (5) |
| 2/28/18 |
Pro- or Anti-Bubble? (0) |
| 2/28/17 |
Polyester Robes (2) |
| 12/31/16 |
Sometimes Baby Steps Don't Cut It (2) |
| 12/31/16 |
Looking for Love in the Manger (3) |
| 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) |
| 8/31/16 |
Egotism or Altruism? (Hint: It's a trick question.) (1) |
| 8/31/16 |
"The Sadness We Bring To A Diagnosis Should Not Become Our Child’s" (7) |
| 8/31/16 |
The Problem of Language: The Gift of Babel (14) |
| 7/31/16 |
True encounters (2) |
| 6/30/16 |
Seven Quick Takes: Most Marriages are Invalid? (32) |
| 5/31/16 |
America Magazine reviews "My Battle Against Hitler" (3) |
| 4/30/16 |
"College Kids Say the Darndest Things": Some Further Thoughts (2) |
| 4/30/16 |
Amori Laetitia: 31 - 37, throwing off moral defensiveness and dependency (3) |
| 4/30/16 |
The Limits of "Identifying As" (6) |
| 4/30/16 |
Hello Everyone! First Post. (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 |
FFMD, #3: The problem of free-floating consciences (5) |
| 12/31/15 |
Advent mission (6) |
| 11/30/15 |
Being a bad witness. Lessons from the lamentation tradition (0) |
| 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) |
| 10/31/15 |
Falling for robots (0) |
| 10/31/15 |
The Limits of Teachable Moments (3) |
| 9/30/15 |
Impersonal Activism (8) |
| 7/31/15 |
The master/slave dynamic in writing (2) |
| 6/30/15 |
Moral goodness doesn't come through punishment (12) |
| 6/30/15 |
The power of the Supreme Court (9) |
| 6/30/15 |
Venting and Lamenting (2) |
| 6/30/15 |
Accepting "the Given" (8) |
| 5/31/15 |
Ralph Martin and the Language of Personal Decision (6) |
| 5/31/15 |
Opposites of freedom (3) |
| 5/31/15 |
Truth and Tolerance, part 1 (7) |
| 3/31/15 |
The Further Depersonalization of American Society (3) |
| 3/31/15 |
The Meaning of the Creative Act, part 2 (0) |
| 3/31/15 |
Theology the body captured in doll conversion story (3) |
| 3/31/15 |
The Meaning of the Creative Act, part 1 (12) |
| 3/31/15 |
John F. Crosby’s CHAPTER TEN (1) |
| 3/31/15 |
The Personalism of John Henry Newman, Crosby, part VIII (14) |
| 3/31/15 |
The Personalism of John Henry Newman, Crosby, part VII (0) |
| 2/28/15 |
Repentance and forgiveness aren't gotten without vulnerability (6) |
| 2/28/15 |
The Personalism of John Henry Newman, Crosby, part VI (4) |
| 2/28/15 |
Martyrs on Video (6) |
| 2/28/15 |
Mad at Mass (22) |
| 2/28/15 |
Greeting from an old Friend "Pater Jarek" (4) |
| 2/28/15 |
The Personalism of John Henry Newman, Crosby, part III (7) |
| 1/31/15 |
Starting a virtual reading circle (4) |
| 1/31/15 |
The Personalism of John Henry Newman, Crosby, part I (2) |
| 1/31/15 |
Redesigned website (2) |
| 1/31/15 |
With such friends, who needs enemies? (2) |
| 1/31/15 |
Empathy and Sympathy (2) |
| 1/31/15 |
Parting ways (4) |
| 11/30/14 |
Anyone Encountered Berdyaev? (1) |
| 11/30/14 |
The problem with "consenting adults" (7) |
| 11/30/14 |
What would Newman say about the Synod? (18) |
| 10/31/14 |
Is all confusion evil? A Socratic thought. (6) |
| 10/31/14 |
Personalism and the Judeo-Christian tradition (20) |
| 9/30/14 |
On speaking what we feel (10) |
| 9/30/14 |
About shaking the dust from our sandals (1) |
| 9/30/14 |
The Trouble with Hagiography (5) |
| 9/30/14 |
The unity of objectivity and subjectivity in emotion (13) |
| 7/31/14 |
Conversation with John Crosby (0) |
| 7/31/14 |
A conversation with John F. Crosby (0) |
| 6/30/14 |
Thoughts on modesty abroad, in three vignettes (32) |
| 2/28/14 |
"Boxing" Others (16) |
| 2/28/14 |
fired for pregnancy (10) |
| 2/28/14 |
Should We Redistribute the Children? (6) |
| 1/31/14 |
von Hildebrand and love as the 'meaning' of marriage (4) |
| 1/31/14 |
JPII and/vs Religious Freedom (10) |
| 1/31/14 |
The Poor are Persons (2) |
| 1/31/14 |
New Year's Resolution Reality Check (9) |
| 12/31/13 |
Admiration and the Spiritual Couch Potato (2) |
| 12/31/13 |
JPII and/vs Feminism (59) |
| 10/31/13 |
"Our own deepest secret" (3) |
| 10/31/13 |
When Faith becomes Ideology (16) |
| 10/31/13 |
What did Dostoyevsky mean when he said 'Beauty will save the world'? (1) |
| 10/31/13 |
On the Feast of Blessed John Henry Newman (1) |
| 8/31/13 |
Dr. Allender on abuse and recovery (11) |
| 8/31/13 |
Self-possession precedes self-giving (23) |
| 7/31/13 |
Austen on the need to investigate our feelings (3) |
| 7/31/13 |
The moral seriousness of Miss Bates (2) |
| 7/31/13 |
The many superabundant goods of an apple tree (3) |
| 7/31/13 |
Separating sex and love (8) |
| 7/31/13 |
Fake wisdom (4) |
| 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 |
Why You Shouldn't Worry About What Pope Francis Might Do Next (0) |
| 5/31/13 |
Kierkegaard turns 200 (0) |
| 5/31/13 |
Tenderness and maturity (7) |
| 5/31/13 |
What is the most fundamental human right? Part 3: Three contenders (3) |
| 4/30/13 |
Power of Recognizing the Person (2) |
| 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) |
| 3/31/13 |
The Chief Rabbi of France and the Irreversible Scrambling of Sexual Identity (8) |
| 2/28/13 |
Leg logos (aka legos) (0) |
| 2/28/13 |
Audio of The Christian Personalism of J.H. Newman (3) |
| 2/28/13 |
Our decisions belong to us; we are responsible for them (47) |
| 2/28/13 |
Dictatorship of Realism? (6) |
| 2/28/13 |
The abyss of leisure (6) |
| 1/31/13 |
Who decides? (11) |
| 1/31/13 |
Women in combat. (4) |
| 1/31/13 |
A long post about self-assertion as a moral call (1) |
| 1/31/13 |
Personal impediments to faith (4) |
| 1/31/13 |
Freedom of Religion vs. Freedom of Worship: More than Semantics (0) |
| 1/31/13 |
A "Personal" Lord and Savior? (4) |
| 12/31/12 |
To medicalize evil is to deny personal dignity (6) |
| 12/31/12 |
Prayer and Fasting: Taking it Personally (0) |
| 12/31/12 |
Why gender matters (25) |
| 12/31/12 |
Personalism in Heidegger's Being and Time? (4) |
| 11/30/12 |
Virtual choirs & the transformative power of music (4) |
| 11/30/12 |
Good and evil in the human heart (8) |
| 11/30/12 |
Forgiveness - Robert Spaemann (2) |
| 11/30/12 |
Back and Forth (2) |
| 11/30/12 |
The metaphysics of marriage (5) |
| 10/31/12 |
Lies, the Empty Chair, and the Rejection of God (2) |
| 10/31/12 |
Evil, Lies, and the Election (8) |
| 10/31/12 |
In Praise of Spontaneity, Under Certain Conditions (3) |
| 10/31/12 |
Religious Freedom under Threat: Panel & Discussion (6) |
| 10/31/12 |
Celebrating two great lives (8) |
| 9/30/12 |
Judge Not, Even During Election Season (7) |
| 8/31/12 |
In Praise of Hypocrisy (No, Not Really) (5) |
| 8/31/12 |
Reading Casti Connubii (and the Tradition) in Light of the Insights of JPII (37) |
| 8/31/12 |
Personalists unite! (1) |
| 8/31/12 |
Do husbands have authority over their wives? (65) |
| 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 |
The west won't be saved by good politics and sound ideas (1) |
| 8/31/12 |
On the Dangers of Reading the Bible as a Kid (5) |
| 7/31/12 |
To get Beauty, bring back the critics! (6) |
| 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 |
What his contrition has to do with my forgiveness (24) |
| 7/31/12 |
Guilty of Unprincipled Forgiveness or Model Christian? (92) |
| 7/31/12 |
Justice and truth (7) |
| 7/31/12 |
Input to the "JP II on treating patients as persons" Reading Circle (1) |
| 7/31/12 |
St. Benedict and phenomenology (29) |
| 6/30/12 |
Blankenhorn succumbs to gay marriage advocacy (8) |
| 6/30/12 |
Population Problems (even in the Islamic World) (2) |
| 6/30/12 |
The post-modern loss of truth (2) |
| 5/31/12 |
A Problem and a Fear about SSM (5) |
| 5/31/12 |
Purity of Heart, Part 2 (3) |
| 5/31/12 |
Oh, No, Not That Again! Revisiting Self-Esteem (11) |
| 5/31/12 |
The Outsourced Self? (10) |
| 5/31/12 |
Is Kierkegaard expecting too much from mere mortals? (6) |
| 5/31/12 |
A passing thought on hoarding (2) |
| 4/30/12 |
Response to Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart (4) |
| 4/30/12 |
Some thoughts in defense of Cardinal Schönborn (7) |
| 4/30/12 |
Diversity: Reclaiming a Buzzword (10) |
| 4/30/12 |
Silence (4) |
| 4/30/12 |
Revelation, Interiority, and the Gift (1) |
| 4/30/12 |
PODCASTS on The Acting Person (7) |
| 4/30/12 |
Catholicism and Personalism: Not Such Strange Bedfellows (20) |
| 4/30/12 |
via crucis (1) |
| 3/31/12 |
ND prof says, “The immorality of birth control is no longer a teaching of the Catholic Church.” (6) |
| 3/31/12 |
The World of Work and the World of Leisure (1) |
| 3/31/12 |
The Selfhood of Mary (6) |
| 3/31/12 |
Phenomenology and the art of persuasion (2) |
| 3/31/12 |
Bonus wisdom from Alice von Hildebrand (17) |
| 3/31/12 |
What is authentic healthcare for women? (9) |
| 3/31/12 |
The JP II generation (1) |
| 3/31/12 |
A priest lays out the wrong of the HHS mandate (2) |
| 3/31/12 |
PP Member fights the good fight (1) |
| 3/31/12 |
Has the USA become a Totalitarian State? Grave Attacks on the Freedom of Faith Conscience and Creed (11) |
| 3/31/12 |
New Novel (23) |
| 3/31/12 |
The Personhood of Human Humans (5) |
| 2/29/12 |
The negative effects of 'thinking the unthinkable' (13) |
| 2/29/12 |
The Personhood of Human Embryos (7) |
| 2/29/12 |
Lent as a Season of Love (3) |
| 2/29/12 |
Holy cosmetics (8) |
| 2/29/12 |
Do we want our politicians to be consistent? (53) |
| 2/29/12 |
The Abuse of Language and the Dehumanization of the Person (13) |
| 2/29/12 |
Second Member Contest (4) |
| 2/29/12 |
“Forgiving Oneself”—What Might It Mean? (18) |
| 2/29/12 |
The Bishop and the Baby (14) |
| 2/29/12 |
Who is my plesion? (5) |
| 1/31/12 |
Love and the will; over-simplifying births confusion (7) |
| 1/31/12 |
Ronda Chervin's conversion story (10) |
| 1/31/12 |
A personalist approach to the Pro-life cause (2) |
| 1/31/12 |
Contraception and the Fall (15) |
| 1/31/12 |
Forgiveness: What Completes It? What Cripples It? (15) |
| 1/31/12 |
John Henry Newman on the education of adolescents (5) |
| 1/31/12 |
The Heart in Western Philosophy (5) |
| 1/31/12 |
I Actually Remember Rosa Parks (18) |
| 1/31/12 |
Do souls have colors? (13) |
| 1/31/12 |
On a certain self-love (13) |
| 1/31/12 |
(dis)orientation (9) |
| 1/31/12 |
From "pro-choice" to ardently pro-life (4) |
| 1/31/12 |
Interfaith statement on marriage issued (37) |
| 1/31/12 |
Creating the Future (11) |
| 1/31/12 |
Memory and identity (2) |
| 1/31/12 |
Introducing TorahJew (8) |
| 1/31/12 |
Von Hildebrand's vision in a word: Reverence (6) |
| 12/31/11 |
Christmas, Defiance, and Despair (18) |
| 12/31/11 |
Persons Are Unrepeatable (37) |
| 12/31/11 |
Absurdity and Doubt (25) |
| 12/31/11 |
Silence, Recollection, and the Season of Hectic Activity (10) |
| 12/31/11 |
Christmas music (9) |
| 12/31/11 |
Worthy of Respect: The Personalist Norm (8) |
| 12/31/11 |
Snow flakes and persons (10) |
| 12/31/11 |
Alice von Hildebrand on boredom (3) |
| 12/31/11 |
Individualism not quite the answer (8) |
| 12/31/11 |
First Reading Circle podcast (13) |
| 12/31/11 |
The philosophy and politics of isolation (31) |
| 12/31/11 |
Self-preoccupation not necessarily selfish (2) |
| 11/30/11 |
I Won't 'Learn Those Dam* Prayers' (29) |
| 11/30/11 |
Manifesto (5) |
| 11/30/11 |
National holidays and government intervention (5) |
| 11/30/11 |
Introduction (22) |
| 11/30/11 |
Dr. Peter Damgaard Hansen at IIC (2) |
| 11/30/11 |
New translation of the mass: Dashed hopes? (8) |
| 11/30/11 |
Two thoughts about Steve Jobs (3) |
| 11/30/11 |
Liturgy and Personality (3) |
| 11/30/11 |
The Tabor Vision of love (1) |
| 11/30/11 |
The effects of thinking the unthinkable (1) |
| 10/31/11 |
Public morality and the common good (1) |
| 10/31/11 |
Validating feelings (3) |
| 12/31/10 |
Humbug (0) |
| 11/30/10 |
Paternalism in the Hippocratic Oath (1) |
| 11/30/10 |
Mildred Jefferson, heroine for life (1) |
| 10/31/10 |
In Defense of Negativity (2) |
| 10/31/10 |
The number 223 (1) |
| 10/31/10 |
Cleansed but not saved (1) |
| 10/31/10 |
119th birthday of Edith Stein (2) |
| 9/30/10 |
Is love not enough? (2) |
| 9/30/10 |
The personalist significance of involuntary emotions (2) |
| 5/31/10 |
Legion of Christ taken to task (2) |
| 5/31/10 |
Religion of Peace? (2) |
| 3/31/10 |
Weigel on the sex scandals in the Church (1) |
| 3/31/10 |
What is criticism? (1) |
| 3/31/10 |
What is conscience (52) |
| 3/31/10 |
The de-personalizing Legion of Christ (0) |
| 2/28/10 |
Conflating toughness and bullying (1) |
| 2/28/10 |
Ayn Rand’s false philosophy (2) |
| 1/31/10 |
Gift and grateful striving: Personalist Insight of the Day (PID) (2) |
| 1/31/10 |
The curse and the gift of being Irish (2) |
| 1/31/10 |
Mugged by the ultrasound (2) |
| 1/31/10 |
Between the knockers and boosters of modern culture (2) |
| 12/31/09 |
Christmas reading and listening recommendations (1) |
| 12/31/09 |
The marriage debt (2) |
| 12/31/09 |
Cloning and the right to ignorance (2) |
| 12/31/09 |
Criticizing modernity (2) |
| 11/30/09 |
Personalism in education administration (2) |
| 10/31/09 |
Christopher West breaks silence; answers critics (70) |
| 10/31/09 |
Moral bankruptcy among the elites (1) |
| 10/31/09 |
The big difference between Mother Teresa and Mao Tse Tung (2) |
| 10/31/09 |
Another frowned-upon emotion (1) |
| 9/30/09 |
Newman on perfection (2) |
| 9/30/09 |
More on ideology (1) |
| 9/30/09 |
What’s wrong with ideology? (1) |
| 9/30/09 |
Who will we stand with? (1) |
| 9/30/09 |
The rising cult of experts (1) |
| 8/31/09 |
Stevenson’s wrath (2) |
| 8/31/09 |
Ronda Chervin on Anger (2) |
| 8/31/09 |
Suggested weekend reading (1) |
| 8/31/09 |
Anger, passivity, bureaucracy (2) |
| 8/31/09 |
Where's the wrath? (59) |
| 7/31/09 |
Emptiness (1) |
| 7/31/09 |
Recommended weekend reading and listening (1) |
| 7/31/09 |
The Stoning of Soraya M. (1) |
| 7/31/09 |
Bishop Sheen on sex and marriage (2) |
| 7/31/09 |
Courtship (19) |
| 6/30/09 |
Abortion survivor story (1) |
| 6/30/09 |
Fr. Geiger’s latest on the West debate (103) |
| 6/30/09 |
But are we free? Five questions (1) |
| 6/30/09 |
Secret Faults (2) |
| 6/30/09 |
Prudishness (1) |
| 6/30/09 |
What is prudishness? (1) |
| 6/30/09 |
Audio and video coming soon! (1) |
| 6/30/09 |
Christopher West: A von Hildebrandian’s Perspective (59) |
