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Friday, May 24, 2013

The perfect storm of sexualizing children--choice/consent devours itself

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(I know, a long period of neglecting the blog and then two posts close together. That's pretty much par for the course in blogging.) S...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

The relative fragility of masculine identity

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I have a theory. Readers can see what they think of it. Let it be known that this is just conjecture. My theory is developed partly in res...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Blessed Sunday after the Ascension

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Yes, I know, I should have posted on Ascension Day. All my purist Catholic friends on Facebook have been posting quips about people who thin...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

Yet more on misleading voices in the culture wars

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I wanted to bring this to the top of the page. A reader has posted a comment in this older thread in response to a...ahem...kerfuffle at ano...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

"Our highest priority is the safety of our students"

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This story is an example of what is wrong with our public schools. Let's suppose that the worst thing the story says about the teache...
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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Women in the Military: Past flirting with disaster

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Brian Mitchell's prophetic book was called Women in the Military: Flirting with Disaster . It's a wonderful book, full of excellent ...
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Monday, April 01, 2013

Telling ourselves lies

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I have recently been thinking about a trend in the Christian, or perhaps I should say "Christian," response to the homosexual agen...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Alleluia! He is Risen!

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A joyful Easter to my readers. He is risen! Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting...

Holy Saturday--Recycling

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I've been looking over some of my older posts, searching for the word "Pilate." This occurred to me to do after I listened la...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Thy rebuke hath broken his heart

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The tabernacle is empty, the door standing open. The altar is stripped and bare. On Good Friday, we remember the Passion of Our Lord, the ...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Palm Sunday and Witness

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It is Palm Sunday, and I have nothing much new to say. Years ago I poured myself into quite a few liturgical posts, and they still seem good...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Immanent teleology and holism

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I've been thinking a bit about thinkers who recognize teleology in nature but don't want to attribute this to a superpowerful and in...
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Some Gospel music to make you happy

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I linked this a few years ago, but it deserves to be posted again. And who knows, maybe I've picked up a reader or two in the meanwhile ...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Roger Bennett testimony

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As mentioned in a previous post, I've been wanting to draw attention to pianist Roger Bennett's testimony from an old Cathedrals con...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Be Not Afraid

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The cry of the papacy of John Paul II was "Be not afraid!" It's an encouragement that Christians need. We're certainly not...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Slavery as the alternative to the free market

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Inspired by a good post by my W4 colleague Jeffrey S. on the minimum wage, I've been thinking a bit lately about anti-free-market appro...
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Sunday, February 03, 2013

Suicide: "You've got to go back"

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God has laid it on my heart today to blog a story that I believed I had blogged years ago. After a long time searching the Internet, this si...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Conservatism and caring for the little guy

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Hunter Baker makes a good point here , describing a woman he saw at Hardee's: With great concentration and methodical effort, she scr...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

When he's right, he's Wright

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I have posted my thoughts apropos of Sanctity of Human Life Sunday at What's Wrong With the World. By way of posting something differe...
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