These past several weeks there have been more posts than usual about sex and the dominant purity culture in modern evangelicalism among those I read. If you’ve not read any of the posts, here is a sampling. Virginity: New and Improved! and Am I Being “Soft on Sin”? by Elizabeth Esther when is should be about [...]
The few of you who check this blog regularly have probably noticed I haven’t been writing much. It’s not because I have nothing to say. In fact, I have a swirl of many thoughts on celiac, faith, and other matters swirling around my head. It’s more that life has intervened and even on those occasions [...]
This isn’t a recipe site and I don’t plan to turn it into one. But as I was cooking this past weekend, it occurred to me that this would make a good dish through which I could explore the way I approach meals and cooking in general and some of the specific ways we’ve adapted [...]
In this month’s edition of the Saturday Evening Blog Post, hosted by Elizabeth Esther, I chose the post with most of my answer to the question, Why Do We Pray?
I have to confess up front that as someone born in the 1960s and raised in a heterogeneous spiritual environment, I’m a little bemused that oral contraceptives are even a matter for national public debate. Moreover, the Roman Catholic Church remains the only Christian group that takes a dogmatic position against not just oral contraceptives, [...]
It’s that time of year once more. Love is in the air! This is one of the days on which my wife and I have a long-standing tradition. The first Valentine’s Day after we were married, we had no money at all and couldn’t afford a babysitter (even if we had known one) and a [...]
So, I posted my initial thoughts on this topic in a post here as my thoughts on the topic began to gell. I also participated in a discussion on this topic in posts on Fr. Christian’s blog here and here. I also went back and read the actual rule from last August. (The January announcement [...]
I am not Catholic, though I have friends and family who are, many quite devout. I attended a Catholic school as a non-Catholic for three years growing up in Houston. And my older son was born in a Catholic hospital founded by the Daughters of Charity. I’ve also had friends in health care in one [...]
The next point, the perpetual virginity of Mary, tends to be controversial among my fellow modern Protestants. I will note that the modern objection is not inherently Protestant in nature. Indeed all the initial reformers, Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli, held firmly to the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary. As late as the 18th [...]
Elizabeth Esther faced off with Michael Pearl on Anderson Cooper. I applaud her for her courage. On her post, I made two comments I want to preserve on my blog. The first is simply my reaction to her post and her courage for speaking out. Way to go EE! And the truth is that kids [...]