“You shall be like gods…”
The great temptation, from the beginning, has been to become one's own god. It's the ultimate recipe for unhappiness.... Read More
Paulisms
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Love is Love?
Love isn’t love unless it’s love. The great liberal fallacy of today is that truth can be an obstacle to love. To the contrary, truth defines, and is the form of, love. Sincerity, tenderness, and attraction without truth to inform the content of its action can be very dangerous and harmful.... Read More
First — Know Your Boundaries
There is no joy without boundaries. This is common sense. If you want to enjoy a game you must know its rules. If you want to entertain in your back yard you need to know its boundaries with your neighbor. And if you want to be happy in life you must first know the law […]... Read More
The Key to Life: Reflecting the Trinity
One reason the nation and the Church have lasted and prospered as long as they have (although the first is now floudering due to rejecting God), is that they both reflect the Blessed Trinity: Executive, legislative, and judicial branches, as well as Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium, both reflect, albeit imperfectly, the eternal dynamic of […]... Read More
Choosing Fear Over Faith, Reason, and Common Sense
Those who condemn abortion but support premarital sex are like those who condemn bulimia but support gluttony. Likewise, condemning abortion while supporting contraception is like condemning rape while supporing misogeny. You don’t extinguish a fire by adding fuel. And you don’t end one moral evil by supporting another. Doing so is, in itself, a moral […]... Read More
Victim, Offender, and Conquerer
In a post-Eden world, we all suffer the injustices of others. In this sense we’re all victims. . In the context of being sinners, we are also all perpetrators. . We become victors by uniting to Christ, who affirms: “In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage, I have conquered the world” (Jn […]... Read More
Good Public Policy
What underlying principles should be used for making public policy? There is overlap, but generally speaking there are three options: bad morality, no morality, and good morality – which represent the philosophies of secular progressivism, libertarianism, and Christian conservatism respectively. The first two are based on a false sense of freedom born of modern philosophy, […]... Read More
Light and Love
Light is to truth what love is to life.... Read More
Complementary, Not Contradictory
Complementary, rather than contradictory... Read More
The Underprivileged
The real definition of ‘underprivileged’ is being formed by the world while knowing no alternative.... Read More
