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Warrior Catholic
How ’bout this: The Warrior Catholic wants to interview me. I’m excited. If you don’t know already, I have a deep, mellifluous, exceedingly masculine voice that has been compared to: Butter, Dark...
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Tumblng
Sooooo, no, this isn’t a real post, just a heads up: I got a tumblr account! It’s here. I guess this is kind of like when Kate Beaton stopped posting her awesome, awesome comics so often but kinda made...
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Paupers
“You know what’s funny?” says A., coming up to me while we practice Bok Pai Chuan and grinning painfully. “How you’re so much better at that form, even though I’ve been coming here for longer!” “Aw,...
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Victim Souls?
I’m reading Eve Tushnet’s bit in the October First Things — a response to Douglas Farrow’s “Thirteen Theses On Marriage.” (You can find the theses, and the whole set of responses, here.) Eve’s stuff is...
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Linkfest
The interview went great. I’m grateful to Chris over at Warrior Catholic, and to the people who called in. You can find an archive of the whole half hour here. Paul H. asks: Any chance you could post a...
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Forty-Three Hours and Counting
I smoked my first cigarette at age 10, in the raspberry bushes across the street with my friend W., who had stolen his father’s pack. We hid the rest under a bush for later, but that night in a fit of...
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Fishermen and Whores
“I think,” says Fr. John from behind the confessional screen, “that we tend to see our sexuality as a burden, instead of a gift.” He laughs to himself a little, maybe thinking You and me both, buddy;...
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Like That
“I remember,” I told my little brother on my last visit home, “when I realized that dressing fashionably wasn’t a betrayal of Gershom principles.” I don’t mean my mother dressed me in flour sacks,...
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Unwearied
To my relief, I wake up too late for Mass this morning. More sleep means less surliness, and less effort spent ignoring my resentment at the priest who sings off-key and the parishioners who ad-lib the...
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You Have To Meet the Man
Your friends make known, O Lord, the glorious splendor of your kingdom.1 One nice thing about going to daily(ish) Mass is hearing about the saints, who I usually can’t even be bothered to talk to, much...
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Nearly Anything
My friend B. is a body psychotherapist. She’s explained what this means more than once, but I never quite get a handle on it.1 I gather that, where traditional psychotherapy is focused on talking, body...
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Images Of Hope
I’ve got no words for you today, so I give you the words of Fr. William F. Lynch. These are excerpts from Images of Hope, which I have been reading on and off since about March. It was one of the very...
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Enlarging the Concept Of the Human
Gosh, William Lynch just gets better and better: The sick [i.e. the mentally ill] deeply fear that they are not human. They interpret an endless variety of problems and distresses as nonhuman. I...
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It Hardly Hurts At All
If you don’t mind their trademark combination of foulness, expletives, poop jokes, and brilliant insight, I highly recommend this article on Cracked: Five Great Joys In Life That Healthy People Never...
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Survey
Passing this along from a friend. One small but easy way to get your voice heard. Took me about 5-10 minutes. I’m currently a senior at Trinity College in CT working on a thesis looking at the sources...
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Mechanical Legs
One summer, age 15, I looked around and noticed I was in a fantastic mood. It wasn’t occasioned by anything in particular. I remember the quality of the sunlight and the feeling of lightness. I told...
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Guest Post
Shouldn’t be posting! Because I’m at work! But it’ll just take 2 minutes! To tell you about my small guest post! Over at the blog of the redoubtable Simcha Fisher!
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Interpretive Faculty, Know Thy Place!
I’m still trying to hone in on exactly what these drugs are doing for me. This is the best way I can express it so far: they seem to dull my interpretive faculty. That sounds like a bad thing, but it’s...
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In Case You’re In Idaho…
…sorry, I meant to tell you about this before, but St. Agnes parish of Weiser, Idaho, has invited me out to give a couple of talks for their Advent mission. My first talk will be this evening...
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