How My City’s Traffic Lights Require Cyclists to Break the Law
Unless it’s brutally hot or there’s lightning in the air, I ride my bicycle to and from work. I’ve been regularly doing this for the past few years in an effort to save money. ...
Monthly Archive: May 2012
Moments in Parenting When You Don’t Know What to Say
As the boy is still a little too young to participate in everything that occurs at Mass, we let him draw pictures while he listens to the readings, homily, and prayers. He likes to...
Don’t Call North Carolina’s Amendment 1 a Ban!
So says Ryan T. Anderson at National Review, splitting hairs and missing the point: Today’s vote in North Carolina is not about banning anything. Nothing will be made illegal as a result. In all...
A Rational, Religious Mind
Alex Knapp summarizes the reason why many Christians reject the science of evolution: For some Christians, evolution would, if true, completely shatter the doctrine of Original Sin. After all, if humans evolved, then there...
What Would Approving of Homosexuality Mean for the Roman Catholic Church?
For one thing, it would have to give up its claim to infallibility. Over at Vox Nova, I explain briefly what other changes the church would have to make, how the lives of gay...
Not Exactly ‘The Notebook’
My wife and I were conversing the other day about growing old, losing our wits, forgetting ourselves and others while doing our best to remain in love. She asked me, in a voice seeking...
Two Embarrassing Episodes
In high school, only one kid sat lower on the social totem pole than I did. He made boogers out of rubber cement and stuck them up his nose. Back then I picked my...
The Assurances of Infallibility
Show me an alleged divinely-revealed truth, and I will show you the operations of religious authority, for there can be no transmission of such truth-claims without some degree of power. Not every religious authority,...
