Bullying, Relativism, and Youth Suicide
In September 2010, Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington bridge after a roommate video-taped him having an intimate encounter with another...
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7 Quick Takes Friday #1
First time joining in and doing "7 Quick Takes." Thank you Jen at Conversion Diary for hosting.1. So we began this blog while we were engaged and he was away in Italy doing research for his...
View ArticleThe Harm of Homosexual Practice: A Medical and Moral Argument
As President Obama has declared his support for “marriage” between members of the same sexes, supporters have warned opponents of gay “marriage” lest they should find themselves on “the wrong side of...
View Article7 Quick Takes Friday #2
Thank you Jennifer for hosting at Conversion Diary!1. We are away this weekend, visiting my husband’s family. I just went to ask him whether he had anything he wanted to mention in this post, and found...
View ArticleRedefinitions and Redefining Away: Religion, Marriage, and Life
My wife is a librarian. This means several things. First, she likes rules (she loves canon law). Rules are very important to her, they help keep things, and especially people, neat and orderly....
View ArticleThe Measure of Beauty
Originally hosted by Christina at Reflections of a Catholic in Formationas Day 14 of the series, "You are Beautiful." Thank you Christina!Is beauty objective or subjective? Is it “in the eye of the...
View ArticleHHS, Contraception, and Religious Liberty
Some friends and my wife and I wrote this several months ago with the intention of publishing it as an op-ed in a newspaper. The two newspapers to which we submitted it declined it, so I post it here...
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7 Quick takes Friday #3- 1st Anniversary edition
Thank you Jen at Conversion Diary for hosting. 1. We spent the last week of June on vacation with my husband's family. We rented cottages at a lake. It was an enjoyable week. He and I went canoeing on...
View ArticleThe Christian in Revolt
When in the first century AD, the Roman Emperor Nero smeared Christians with pitch and lit them to serve as nighttime torches or covered them in animal hides and set dogs on them, he was among the...
View ArticleOn Modesty and Bikinis
This was a guest post for Elizabeth Hillgrove's "Bikini, Biki-no" series on Startling the Day. Thank you for hosting! Coming from a (beginner's level) Theology of the Body perspective, I seek to point...
View ArticleBad Christians, Good Christianity
There exists today a modern brand of atheism that runs something like this: Christianity has long been a wicked influence on the world; it has been a tool of tyrants, has oppressed men and women...
View ArticleFour Bad Arguments in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage
Ours is an age that often thrives more on emotion than by reason, more on cliché than rational argument, and more on hot insult than cool logic. On the question of same-sex marriage, which should...
View ArticleHuman Conscience, State Power
At the end of the First Century AD, as the Emperor Trajan continued the persecution of Christianity, the Roman magistrate Pliny wrote to him for advice regarding that persecution. Pliny wrote that it...
View ArticleSterilizing Africa: The New White Man’s Burden
In 1899 Rudyard Kipling penned, “White Man’s Burden” (1) in which he exhorted the European to conquer and colonize foreign lands like Africa for the good of the inhabitants. In his opening stanza, he...
View ArticleCutting the Wives Out of Ephesians 5
Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ.Ephesians 5:21Yesterday, the twenty-firstSunday in Ordinary Time, the second reading at Mass was the famous (or infamous) excerpt from St....
View ArticleThe Three Divorces I: Faith and Reason
In his book, The Great Divorce, the Christian philosopher and theologian wrote about two things that ought never to have been joined, heaven and hell. The two were never meant to be joined, but often...
View ArticleThe Three Divorces II: Love and Responsibility
In the previous post, I observed that what is true of a married couple—what God has joined, man must not put asunder—is true of other things as well. Just as the divorce between a husband and his wife...
View Article7 Quick Takes #4- Church History edition
These are two days late and posted in a hurry. . 1. I am taking a Church History course at the Seminary that I work at, and I am finding it really interesting to learn about the early Church. Here are...
View ArticleAbortion and Waffles
When defending abortion in the public life, a man must typically make either one of two claims. Either he will argue that abortion is not a moral evil, that it is either morally good or morally...
View ArticleSt. Ignatius of Antioch
In my last 7 Quick Takes post, I mentioned St. Ignatius of Antioch. Since today is his feast day, I will write a little more about why he is so interesting.Ignatius was the bishop of Antioch sometime...
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