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  • Vix Pervenit on usury
  • Mary and the goal of Christianity
  • “Touch me not” and the other untouchable thing
  • The Lord’s Prayer as chiasmus
  • Irenaeus and Tertullian on apostolic succession
  • The unique unity with Christ available in the Eucharist
  • Marc Barnes on one-year-olds’ birthday parties
  • Lead Me in Your Ways, O Lord
  • Jerry the Squirrel
  • On saying “I am gay”
  • Intersex people, CCSDs, and the sex binary
  • St. John Chrysostom on giving our children riches
  • An eternal church service
  • Can we say “The Church did evil”?
  • The intolerable intolerance of Anglican ambiguity
  • C.S. Lewis on contraception (and bulimia)
  • What’s wrong with critical race theory?
  • Contraception: a parable and an argument
  • Fixing the suburbs
  • Kazaza: The scandal of the prodigal son
  • Is ownership more culpable than trade?
  • Are we angled mirrors?
  • Catholic or Orthodox?
  • “That your faith may not fail”: The verse that shows Peter being given the Papacy
  • Aquinas on Forms, Part 2
  • Mary, our heavenly mother
  • Reaction to Francis on civil unions
  • Aquinas on forms
  • On Wendell Berry’s ‘God and Country’
  • Success before purpose?
  • Wendell Berry on protest
  • Contraception
  • Mortal sins and the possibility of hell
  • The root of faith is action
  • The bodiliness of Christ’s body
  • Some thoughts on purpose and evangelicalism
  • The Church must have authority
  • The perpetual virginity of Mary
  • The word of God and the Bible
  • The Real Presence of Christ
  • Semiotics and the mystery of the Eucharist
  • Altar calls
  • Why I am voting for the American Solidarity Party
  • The purpose of your vote is your vote
  • Double Effect and equal causality
  • Answers to Protestant claims: A response to James White
  • St. Basil the Great on scripture and tradition
  • Augustine on free will and God’s foreknowledge
  • Augustine on why bad things happen to good people and vice versa
  • The self-contradiction of sola scriptura
  • “Creed” by Steve Turner
  • Total depravity and my bad gardening skills
  • Some funny one-liners
  • Satan walks into a lawyer’s office
  • On neurological descriptions of faith
  • Culpability and authority
  • On conversions between Catholicism and Protestantism
  • The Bible’s sure foundation: A response to John Piper’s ‘A Peculiar Glory’
  • Must the Church be an organization?
  • The authority to interpret scripture
  • How can we trust the Canon?
  • Which book have you read more than any other and why?
  • Possible gods and goddesses
  • On the parable of the talents (Mt 25)
  • What I believe about the Bible
  • What is the purpose of man?
  • Priestesses in the Church? Yes, Mr. Lewis, and bishops too!
  • Mario Joseph’s conversion story
  • Conversation with a colleague continued (peasants and ghosts part 2)
  • Can we believe the peasant who saw a ghost
  • Thoughts as an expat in Saudi Arabia
  • “I despise Birth-Control”: G.K. Chesterton on babies and distributism
  • Jim Gaffigan is accidentally insightful about weddings
  • A few thoughts on Ferguson, MO
  • Batter my heart (John Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV)
  • Through the deep dark valley
  • A conversation with God about my vocation
  • “Truth has to be logically consistent”
  • Tiny
  • John Piper quote, Jeremiah 2:13
  • The Game of the Royal Way
  • How children, and we, know God
  • Ecumenism and mystery
  • Two colliding narratives, and the only true story
  • Vicarious aid, or, On World Vision’s recent decision and the response
  • “Caught in the Middle” by Wendell Berry
  • Two doubts
  • The essential issue
  • Socrates and the living word that has a soul
  • On the terms “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Holidays”
  • Far too easily pleased
  • Authority issues (Freedom is not independence)
  • Are Allah and God the same?
  • Morning song of praise
  • Can universities do without God?
  • Old Testament laws in perspective
  • I am who I am
  • The necessity of trust in the Scriptures
  • Killing the Canaanites: Part 4
  • Killing the Canaanites: Part 3
  • Killing the Canaanites: Part 2
  • Killing the Canaanites: Part 1
  • Progressive revelation & cultural context
  • What are we to make of Jesus Christ?
  • C.S. Lewis on a “Christian Political Party”
  • How Baptism can be called necessary for salvation
  • Visible signs: A Protestant defends controversial Catholic doctrines
  • 40,000 denominations
  • Authority and the origin of names
  • Shame on shamers
  • A plea concerning modesty
  • Child sacrifice? Justifying the binding of Isaac
  • Future tense and good intentions
  • An apology to the gay community
  • Marriage is a social institution
  • A teenager with a crush
  • 11 life lessons from Bill Gates
  • A single slice
  • Bigger questions
  • An open letter to Christians on the presidential election
  • Frighteningly consistent
  • Wearing it on our sleeves
  • Respecting vicarious authority
  • Wheat and weeds
  • “Love is love, and family is family”
  • Sincerity is not always salvation
  • Mere stewards of power
  • Gender in the Bible
  • I will give them a heart
  • Getting cleaned up
  • Supplementing faith
  • Social justice and right worship are inextricable
  • Why bad stories are good
  • “Just be who you are”
  • Josiah came too late
  • I killed a girl
  • A riddle
  • God kicks butt and takes names
  • Originality
  • “Elohim” as an intensive singular
  • My Deliverer (Rich Mullins)
  • Mission trips are not the mission field
  • Sacred vocations
  • When doing good turns out bad
  • Men and Marriage: responsibility
  • Praying for wrath
  • Can committed love be wrong?
  • There is no compulsion in religion
  • Good people
  • Sacrificial servanthood (the man’s role)
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