Well, this one's probably going to make some people angry: The standard practice when faced with this passage is to emphasize the duty it and the following verses place on husbands: to love their wives as Christ loved the Church and to lay down their lives for them. This is all perfectly right and proper, … Continue reading CM Piece: Authority in Marriage
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History and Compromise at ‘The Everyman’
My latest post at The Everyman is up, comparing our present world to Austria in the 1930s. It's depressingly apt. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A virulent ideological movement is spreading through a nation’s institutions. It presents itself as the wave of the future, elevating those who have been beaten down, and … Continue reading History and Compromise at ‘The Everyman’
Catholic Match: What to do When You have a Difficult Personality
I get to quote The Lost World in this one: This is not something that is going to go away, or that is a matter of simply building confidence in yourself (though more on that in a bit). Your personality will make your dating and married life harder for you than it would be for … Continue reading Catholic Match: What to do When You have a Difficult Personality
Talking Confession at Catholic Match
My latest Catholic Match post is up, talking about why you need to go to Confession: This brings us to the second point: besides your eternal salvation (if anything can be ‘besides’ that), Confession, along with the other Sacraments, conveys a very useful lesson. Namely, that we do not get to set the terms of … Continue reading Talking Confession at Catholic Match
Christopher Lee Reads ‘The Raven’
With accompanying illustrations by Gustave Dore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=MyxsPHWSxlY
Fantastic Schools vol. 1
The first volume of Fantastic Schools is now live! Have you ever wanted to go to magic school? To cast spells and brew potions and fly on broomsticks and—perhaps—battle threats both common and supernatural? Come with us into worlds of magic, where students become magicians and teachers do everything in their power to ensure the … Continue reading Fantastic Schools vol. 1
Catholic Match – What Do I Have to Offer
My latest piece at Catholic Match went up today: One of the ideas that comes up in job hunting is “distinct value add.” Basically, what do you bring to this company that no one else does? The problem for many of us, of course, is that in most cases a truthful answer would be something … Continue reading Catholic Match – What Do I Have to Offer
Repost: Heroes, Dark Heroes, and Antiheroes
Found this excellent post through a friend's blog, and I highly recommend it for an insightful summary of the progress of the past hundred years or so in storytelling. The key point, it seems to me, is this: There’s a reason humans innately love morally upright characters, and it’s because storytelling was originally a vehicle … Continue reading Repost: Heroes, Dark Heroes, and Antiheroes
Paul Scofield does Macbeth
Really, what else needs to be said? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ
Do You Really Want It? – Catholic Match Post
My latest Catholic Match post is on the all-important question of "do you really want what you say you want?" I think a lot of the things we claim to want are in this category. We say we like the outdoors, or that we would like to travel, or that we want a relationship. We … Continue reading Do You Really Want It? – Catholic Match Post
Serpent's Den 