| Title | Date | Cmts |
| Tracking the Person |
6/30/18 |
0 |
| Human Effort: What’s It For? |
6/30/18 |
0 |
| Ministry of Presence |
6/28/18 |
1 |
| The Trouble with Religious Art |
6/24/18 |
0 |
| Racking Up Points, Missing the Point. |
6/18/18 |
0 |
| “Drowning Evil in an Abundance of Good” |
6/6/18 |
0 |
| Jesus and the Twelve Stumblebums |
5/21/18 |
0 |
| Why “Mens Sana in Corpore Whatever” is Worth Dumping: or, The Four Sayings of Uncle Larry |
5/11/18 |
0 |
| A Twist on “Mary, Did You Know?” |
5/4/18 |
2 |
| Good News about Judgment Day |
4/18/18 |
3 |
| “Rejoice and Be Glad”: No Way Around It |
4/7/18 |
3 |
| Are We Supposed to Flatter God? |
3/28/18 |
1 |
| Jesus, model of resistance to manipulation |
3/19/18 |
0 |
| When Your Mother Forgets Who You Are |
3/16/18 |
1 |
| A God of Low Standards? The Ins and Outs of Mixed Motivations |
3/8/18 |
4 |
| A Personalist Theory of Magic |
2/19/18 |
9 |
| “God is realistic.” |
2/9/18 |
2 |
| Port Authority Personalism |
2/5/18 |
0 |
| Pro- or Anti-Bubble? |
2/3/18 |
0 |
| An Unlikely Pope Francis Moment |
1/11/18 |
3 |
| The Most Personalist Time of the Year |
12/28/17 |
0 |
| “Lead us not into translations.” |
12/15/17 |
0 |
| Margaret Sanger: How Did She Get That Way? |
12/5/17 |
1 |
| How Controlling Can You Get, Margaret Sanger? |
12/2/17 |
0 |
| Like It’s My Job |
11/24/17 |
0 |
| Of Potstickers and Excessive Objectivism |
11/16/17 |
22 |
| Pro-Euthanasia “Caregivers”? |
11/15/17 |
2 |
| Just Virtue Signaling? |
10/30/17 |
1 |
| Oy, Oy, Oy: The Personal, the Political and #metoo |
10/20/17 |
3 |
| Not About Fr. James Martin, But… |
10/11/17 |
12 |
| All Those Invisible Heroes |
9/18/17 |
0 |
| It Could Always Be Worse? |
9/1/17 |
8 |
| Immigration: Beyond Knee Jerks |
8/25/17 |
0 |
| The Trouble with Jack Chick |
8/7/17 |
3 |
| The Trouble with Pharisees |
8/1/17 |
0 |
| Uju Ekeocha Shows the Way |
7/17/17 |
1 |
| One More for Evie |
7/12/17 |
3 |
| Evie Peoples, Rest in Peace |
7/5/17 |
0 |
| The Joys of WorkoutAgony® |
6/24/17 |
3 |
| The Wisdom to Know the Difference |
6/17/17 |
4 |
| In Defense of Snowflakes |
6/14/17 |
2 |
| Error Has No Rights? |
5/31/17 |
1 |
| An attempt to articulate what bothers me about “You might not want to go to Heaven,” by Matt Walsh |
5/26/17 |
10 |
| There’s truth, and then there’s Truth: A Mother’s Day reflection |
5/14/17 |
1 |
| Pain and Suffering: Couldn’t God have figured out some other way? |
5/2/17 |
1 |
| An Open Letter to Bill Nye the Science Guy |
4/26/17 |
0 |
| My Flying Lesson: In Defense of Fun |
4/17/17 |
2 |
| The Person She Used to Be? |
4/12/17 |
0 |
| How Not to Fix the Healthcare Mess |
4/5/17 |
3 |
| Gaslighting and its Near Relations |
3/29/17 |
3 |
| Rosa Pich, Widowed Mother of Eighteen |
3/15/17 |
0 |
| Preaching to the Choir |
3/13/17 |
0 |
| Be Like Chema: In Memoriam José María Postigo |
3/6/17 |
3 |
| The Power of Prayer? |
2/22/17 |
2 |
| Weaponizing People |
2/17/17 |
0 |
| Intersectional, Shmintersectional |
2/13/17 |
0 |
| Overheard at the Coffee Shop |
1/31/17 |
0 |
| Hopeless But Not Serious: Standing up to evil without losing your peace |
1/24/17 |
4 |
| Where Did I Go Wrong? |
1/18/17 |
1 |
| Not the Way I Would Run an Incarnation |
1/5/17 |
2 |
| Sometimes Baby Steps Don’t Cut It |
12/29/16 |
2 |
| On Not Growing Weary in Well-Doing |
12/21/16 |
1 |
| The Banks and Beauty Parlors of Grandma Europe |
12/11/16 |
9 |
| Rethinking Free Will? |
12/8/16 |
4 |
| Using Conversational Techniques on People: Abomination or Common Sense? |
12/5/16 |
6 |
| Imitation Diversity |
11/27/16 |
1 |
| Catholic Relief Services, Cash for the Homeless, and the Needs of Migrants: Unmasking False Dilemmas |
11/23/16 |
3 |
| Unlikely Pearls of Wisdom, and How Not to Miss Them |
11/17/16 |
0 |
| The Alongside Woman on Your Screen |
11/1/16 |
1 |
| Why is Adulting Suddenly So Hard? |
10/25/16 |
0 |
| About those Secular Pro-Lifers |
10/21/16 |
3 |
| Me? A Whitewashed Sepulcher? |
10/13/16 |
5 |
| One Weird Trick for Fixing What Ails Your Family Life! |
9/27/16 |
1 |
| Remember, Man, That Thou Art Meat? |
9/15/16 |
0 |
| Mrs. Jellyby vs. St. Teresa of Calcutta |
9/8/16 |
5 |
| 7 Quick Takes: Help for the Personalist Tech Addict |
9/2/16 |
0 |
| Egotism or Altruism? (Hint: It’s a trick question.) |
8/28/16 |
1 |
| Faith, Disney, and the Power of Negative Thinking |
8/22/16 |
0 |
| “The Sadness We Bring To A Diagnosis Should Not Become Our Child’s” |
8/19/16 |
7 |
| Blocked? Me? Or, My Journey from Righteous Indignation to a Modicum of Self-Awareness |
8/17/16 |
2 |
| “He Fit the Description.” |
8/15/16 |
0 |
| Naaman the Syrian and Me: On Finally Becaming a Novena Person |
8/10/16 |
2 |
| Beyond God as Boss Man |
8/6/16 |
0 |
| Jesus is Not Your Buddy, But… |
8/1/16 |
6 |
| Taking That First (Excruciatingly Obvious) Step |
7/25/16 |
7 |
| Maybe Everything We Know is Wrong. |
7/16/16 |
1 |
| Nitty-Gritty Applications of the “Universal Destination of Goods” |
7/5/16 |
2 |
| Aging Gracefully (Or Not) |
6/28/16 |
5 |
| Seven Quick Takes: Most Marriages are Invalid? |
6/17/16 |
32 |
| The Increasingly Blurry Line between Animal and Person |
5/24/16 |
0 |
| “Devious Dialogue” |
5/19/16 |
0 |
| What Are Miracles For? |
5/15/16 |
0 |
| “Loving Your Children’s Freedom” and other impossible ideals |
5/9/16 |
0 |
| “College Kids Say the Darndest Things”: Some Further Thoughts |
4/28/16 |
2 |
| The Limits of “Identifying As” |
4/18/16 |
6 |
| The Overregulated Soul |
4/16/16 |
2 |
| Check Your Privilege? An Obnoxious Mantra’s Grains of Truth |
4/5/16 |
5 |
| Facebook’s Foray into Emotional Response |
3/22/16 |
0 |
| “Stop calling breastfeeding ‘natural”? |
3/9/16 |
0 |
| “You needed to know what it felt like.” |
3/8/16 |
0 |
| The Power of “Offering It Up” |
2/20/16 |
0 |
| On the CDC and the Bizarrification of Nature |
2/14/16 |
0 |
| On Pink Elephants and Jen Fulwiler’s Conversion Story |
2/3/16 |
5 |
| “What is this you have done?” |
1/31/16 |
0 |
| About That “Do Unto Others” Part |
1/20/16 |
0 |
| “Money Does Not Change You; It Only Unmasks You” (and other thoughts on the Powerball jackpot) |
1/12/16 |
1 |
| Hanging Onto Your Free Will (All Day Long) |
1/8/16 |
4 |
| Irreverant Images? |
1/1/16 |
0 |
| The Good that Depends on Us: Jacques Philippe Meets Flylady |
12/30/15 |
4 |
| Becoming Robots? |
12/23/15 |
0 |
| About That Vatican Light Show |
12/14/15 |
0 |
| Everyday Forgiveness |
12/4/15 |
8 |
| Dr. Louise, Personalist Extraordinaire |
11/23/15 |
0 |
| The Women of ISIS and the Oscillating Line between Good and Evil |
11/22/15 |
0 |
| Ectogenic Pregnancy and other Terrible Ideas |
11/15/15 |
0 |
| “What Do You Want Me to Do for You?” |
11/10/15 |
0 |
| In Praise of the Inefficient Care of Persons |
10/25/15 |
4 |
| “What do you want me to do for you?” |
10/25/15 |
0 |
| The Limits of Teachable Moments |
10/8/15 |
3 |
| The Post-Francis Effect |
9/29/15 |
3 |
| An Afternoon with Pope Francis |
9/23/15 |
0 |
| A Seamless Garment of Evil |
8/20/15 |
0 |
| Defanging Dual-Action Buzzwords |
7/29/15 |
0 |
| Laudato Si: Beyond the talking points |
7/20/15 |
3 |
| Living on Borrowed Social Capital |
6/30/15 |
3 |
| Yesterday’s Feast Day of the Patron Saint of Everyday Life |
6/27/15 |
1 |
| Happy Fathers’ Day, Abba! |
6/13/15 |
0 |
| Venting and Lamenting |
6/9/15 |
2 |
| Bruce Jenner and the Primordial Given |
6/4/15 |
11 |
| Kristin Lavransdatter’s Crisis Pregnancy and Pope Francis’ Year of Mercy |
6/1/15 |
0 |
| “There are only persons.” |
5/21/15 |
0 |
| Ralph Martin and the Language of Personal Decision |
5/15/15 |
6 |
| Moms’ Night Out (a belated movie review) |
5/8/15 |
0 |
| Guns and Church |
4/26/15 |
0 |
| Moses and Jonah and Planned Parenthood and ISIS |
4/18/15 |
0 |
| Manipulating God |
4/11/15 |
0 |
| Are We Going Soft? |
3/26/15 |
1 |
| The Enemy of My Enemy |
3/21/15 |
0 |
| Mr. Crisco and the Feelings Chart |
3/13/15 |
3 |
| Martyrs and Migrants |
3/4/15 |
0 |
| Self-Improvement: You’re Doing It Wrong |
2/26/15 |
0 |
| Martyrs on Video |
2/18/15 |
6 |
| Beyond Male and Female? |
2/15/15 |
6 |
| Jane Austen, Call Your Office |
2/8/15 |
2 |
| Breaking the Seal, Soaking the Rich, Killing the Goose |
1/31/15 |
0 |
| A Divorce and Two Weddings |
1/24/15 |
1 |
| What is Value Blindness? |
1/16/15 |
0 |
| What is Reverence, Exactly? |
1/6/15 |
0 |
| New Year’s Resolutions and the Limits of Tools and Techniques |
12/30/14 |
0 |
| Happy Holydays! |
12/22/14 |
0 |
| The Weary World Rejoices |
12/15/14 |
1 |
| Assessment Run Amok |
12/7/14 |
2 |
| Who Cares What You Think? |
11/22/14 |
2 |
| Death with What? Brittany Maynard, Veterans Day, and the lure of the pseudo-obvious |
11/12/14 |
2 |
| The Trouble with Gurus |
11/9/14 |
1 |
| What’s at Stake |
11/2/14 |
0 |
| “High-Quality Love”: Four Questions to Ask Yourself |
10/24/14 |
0 |
| Factions |
10/20/14 |
1 |
| The Synod: Caricature and Reality |
10/13/14 |
0 |
| How I Spent My Autumn Vacation |
10/2/14 |
1 |
| The Trouble with Hagiography |
9/20/14 |
5 |
| “Soft Addictions” |
9/13/14 |
1 |
| Too Much, Too Little, Too Late |
9/6/14 |
26 |
| Becoming Who You Are, Even If You’re Not Sure Who That Is |
8/27/14 |
7 |
| Please Don’t Be a Human Ping Pong Ball! |
8/20/14 |
0 |
| Trayvon Martin and the Children of Iraq (and Syria, and Gaza, and Central America) |
8/11/14 |
0 |
| Do Personalism and Business Mix? |
8/4/14 |
0 |
| Juan Antonio and the Personalist Manager |
7/25/14 |
2 |
| Immigration: Impediments to the Conversation |
7/20/14 |
26 |
| Lois Lerner, Archie Bunker, and the Roving Liturgical Critic |
7/13/14 |
0 |
| Modesty and Other Skirmishes: Reassessing the Battle Lines |
7/3/14 |
1 |
| A New Wrinkle in the Modesty Debate |
6/26/14 |
50 |
| “Dialogue” and “Encounter”: Archbishop Cordileone Reclaims a Couple of Buzzwords |
6/19/14 |
0 |
| Where Do I Apply for my Introvert’s Exemption? |
6/11/14 |
4 |
| The Power of Bad Example |
5/31/14 |
4 |
| Pity the Veterans? |
5/25/14 |
0 |
| Evangelii Gaudium: The Rest of the Story |
5/19/14 |
0 |
| Beyond “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin” |
5/11/14 |
9 |
| “The Third Way: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” |
5/1/14 |
7 |
| Who Are We to Judge? |
4/24/14 |
4 |
| Protagoras and Me |
4/15/14 |
3 |
| Everybody’s a Critic |
4/5/14 |
6 |
| The Neomalthusianism of Captain Kirk |
3/10/14 |
2 |
| Surprise Diagnosis |
2/27/14 |
0 |
| The Worst Kind of Hobby |
2/16/14 |
2 |
| Should We Redistribute the Children? |
2/10/14 |
6 |
| Straight Talk about Unconditional Love |
2/5/14 |
5 |
| More Things in Heaven and Earth |
1/28/14 |
1 |
| What Would Tolkein Do? Mixed Feelings about Self-Promotion |
1/21/14 |
11 |
| New Year’s Resolution Reality Check |
1/12/14 |
9 |
| Giving Joy a Bad Name |
1/6/14 |
0 |
| The HHS, Then and Now |
12/27/13 |
0 |
| Evangelizing the Complacent |
12/22/13 |
9 |
| Admiration and the Spiritual Couch Potato |
12/12/13 |
2 |
| Merry Christmas, You Miserable Pagan! |
12/5/13 |
2 |
| Q & A with Jacques Philippe |
11/29/13 |
1 |
| Jacques Philippe in Ann Arbor, Part Two |
11/21/13 |
0 |
| Jacques Philippe in Ann Arbor(!) |
11/17/13 |
0 |
| Self Esteem without Selfishness: Now Available! |
11/11/13 |
0 |
| The Wide-Awake Life |
11/10/13 |
3 |
| Proselytism vs. Evangelism: Round Two |
11/3/13 |
58 |
| Solemn Nonsense: A How-To Guide |
10/25/13 |
1 |
| Opening Wide the Doors of the Field Hospital |
10/9/13 |
2 |
| Towards a Spirituality of Unknown Variables |
10/1/13 |
1 |
| A Problem of Translation? |
9/24/13 |
11 |
| Has Pope Francis Gone Too Far? |
9/14/13 |
2 |
| “No Good Options” |
9/10/13 |
5 |
| Efficiency for What? |
9/5/13 |
0 |
| How Not to Pray |
8/30/13 |
10 |
| God and Man at EMU |
8/12/13 |
2 |
| It’s Not My Fault! |
7/28/13 |
10 |
| Examining Your Examination of Conscience |
7/19/13 |
2 |
| Kicking the Anasthesia Habit |
7/11/13 |
0 |
| On Culture Shock and Spiritual Fibromyalgia |
6/30/13 |
8 |
| The Self-Referential Person: What I Didn’t Mean |
6/24/13 |
3 |
| On the Self-Referential Person |
6/21/13 |
9 |
| The Least I Need to Do |
6/10/13 |
5 |
| It’s Here! |
6/6/13 |
1 |
| Why You Shouldn’t Worry About What Pope Francis Might Do Next |
6/1/13 |
0 |
| Beyond God as Errand Boy |
5/26/13 |
0 |
| Social Media and the Crocodile in the Bedroom |
5/21/13 |
0 |
| My Personalist Mother |
5/12/13 |
2 |
| Beyond Biology |
5/3/13 |
3 |
| Reductionism and Other Mental Illnesses |
4/26/13 |
4 |
| Worse than a Nanny State |
4/18/13 |
5 |
| Sneak Preview |
4/14/13 |
6 |
| Of Charisms and Comfort Zones |
4/2/13 |
5 |
| All Things to All Men |
3/22/13 |
3 |
| Papa Francisco |
3/14/13 |
1 |
| The Chief Rabbi on Marriage, Part Two |
3/11/13 |
8 |
| The Chief Rabbi of France and the Irreversible Scrambling of Sexual Identity |
3/1/13 |
8 |
| Self-Esteem Without Selfishness: Increasing Your Capacity for Love |
2/26/13 |
6 |
| The Glorious Conformity of the Children of God? |
2/22/13 |
0 |
| Eternal Security and Personhood |
2/15/13 |
0 |
| “Catholic Witness in a Nation Divided” CDs Available |
2/8/13 |
0 |
| Dictatorship of Realism? |
2/7/13 |
6 |
| Seven Quick Takes: Immigration |
2/2/13 |
16 |
| The Circle of Irreplaceability: Making the Case for Marriage |
1/25/13 |
3 |
| From Pawns to Battering Rams, or What Are the Laypeople For? |
1/14/13 |
3 |
| Freedom of Religion vs. Freedom of Worship: More than Semantics |
1/10/13 |
0 |
| A “Personal” Lord and Savior? |
1/2/13 |
4 |
| Some Arguments Against Gay Marriage, and Why They Won’t Work |
12/22/12 |
5 |
| Gaudete Sunday by the Waters of Babylon |
12/16/12 |
5 |
| Prayer and Fasting: Taking it Personally |
12/7/12 |
0 |
| Fair Game: Enlarging your Religious Compartment |
12/1/12 |
0 |
| 7 Quick Takes: Consumerism and its Discontents |
11/24/12 |
6 |
| Back and Forth |
11/18/12 |
2 |
| Three Hopeful Consequences of an Awful Election |
11/10/12 |
10 |
| Coming Soon: Love and Self-Esteem in English! |
11/2/12 |
2 |
| Anti-Spontaneity |
11/2/12 |
1 |
| In Praise of Spontaneity, Under Certain Conditions |
10/25/12 |
3 |
| Peter |
10/15/12 |
2 |
| The Gabe Axiom |
10/8/12 |
6 |
| Making Sure We Don’t See God as Us Writ Large (continued) |
10/1/12 |
5 |
| A God in Our Image and Likeness |
9/27/12 |
6 |
| A Personalist Universe |
9/18/12 |
8 |
| Humor and Joy |
9/15/12 |
0 |
| Judge Not, Even During Election Season |
9/7/12 |
7 |
| In Praise of Hypocrisy (No, Not Really) |
8/31/12 |
5 |
| Overcoming Practical Pessimism |
8/29/12 |
23 |
| On Prayer, Both Second-Hand and Spontaneous |
8/16/12 |
7 |
| Judge Not, and Construct Not, Either. |
8/6/12 |
5 |
| C. S. Lewis on Forgiveness |
8/1/12 |
2 |
| God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life, But What If He Won’t Tell You What It Is? |
7/26/12 |
28 |
| Dr. Seuss: Personalist or Radical Individualist? |
7/15/12 |
3 |
| God is a Personalist: the anecdotal evidence |
7/9/12 |
5 |
| Grains of Truth |
7/2/12 |
1 |
| A Recovering Luddite Looks at the Internet |
6/14/12 |
2 |
| Love and Self-Esteem: English translation in progress |
6/12/12 |
3 |
| Kierkegaard Goes to Walmart |
6/7/12 |
2 |
| Overregulating the Person |
6/1/12 |
9 |
| Oh, No, Not That Again! Revisiting Self-Esteem |
5/23/12 |
11 |
| The Outsourced Self? |
5/18/12 |
10 |
| Judge Not? |
5/9/12 |
8 |
| Procreation and Human Dignity in the Philippines, or What About the Hard Cases? |
5/3/12 |
2 |
| In Defense of Unimpressive Persons |
4/26/12 |
13 |
| Diversity: Reclaiming a Buzzword |
4/19/12 |
10 |
| Catholicism and Personalism: Not Such Strange Bedfellows |
4/11/12 |
20 |
