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The Harm of Porn & the Wound of Beauty

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Stina and Fr Sean in an episode on the various dimensions of pornography.  In that interview, a significant portion of our discussion focused on a tendency within our culture to reduce human persons to abstract characteristics on a list. Long after […]

Truth, What Is That?

To discover what is true is something ingrained in our human nature. We all want to learn. From the moment we can talk, we ask, “Why?”. Any parent of a young child can tell you the list of questions they receive a day is endless. The questions never stop… and […]

A Call to Arms

It is easy to look around at our world today and say “What a mess! Has there ever been a time more evil than this? Where is God in this world?” As a young person, I hear these thoughts in the comments of many older people who, I know, are […]

That feeling of shame … ouch

I think we’ve all been there — we’ve tucked ourselves into bed, the light is off, we might be drifting off to sleep… WHAM. Out of nowhere, we suddenly vividly recall some memory of the highest embarrassment, and lying in the dark, reliving our shame.  Everyone has lived through embarrassing […]

Speak with Conviction

Doing the right thing is often a fine balance between speaking up and saying nothing at all. For some, both are a real struggle. But for different temperaments, one may be a lot harder than the other. The truth is, both can be valuable virtuous acts; what we need is […]

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Why do fairy tales end at marriage?

There is a reason that fairy tales end with the wedding and it’s not because they ‘lived happily ever after.’ Our journey to matrimony may be full of romance, dancing at balls, chivalric gestures and dreams of a better life but marriage itself is no enchanted existence in a castle […]

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Courage, Dear Heart

If I asked you to think about a character from a story who sought courage, perhaps a most obvious answer is the Lion in the Wizard of Oz. It was a very clever move by the author of the book – portraying the animal kingdom’s fiercest animal as a timid […]

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Be the person you want to date

Modern dating culture is a minefield. It’s a maze of do’s and don’ts, will’s and won’ts, should’s and shouldn’ts. There’s so much to weigh up and everyone seems to have their own standards of what is and isn’t ok. Even within friend and faith circles, you will find opinions and […]