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Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Ironically, pretending that parenting is easy diminishes the value of family. As truth seekers and truth speakers, we need to be honest about the cost of parenting.

Parenting Is Your Highest Calling: And Eight Other Myths That Trap Us in Worry and Guilt

We can easily teach our kids hot to be kind, compassionate and respectful when we are kind, compassionate and respectful to them.

The "Perfect" Parent: 5 Tools for Using Your Inner Perfection to Connect with Your Kids

The peculiarity of the Christian faith is not to teach this doctrine but to render it, in various ways, more tolerable. Christianity teaches us that the terrible task has already in some sense been accomplished for us--that a master's hand is holding...

The Problem of Pain

On the one hand, if God is wiser than we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil.

The Problem of Pain

Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say t...

De Profundis

We accept gods that don't speak to us. We accept gods that would place us in a world filled with injustices and do nothing as we struggle. It's easier than accepting that there's nothing out there at all, and that, in our darkest moments, we are trul...

Perfect Ruin

The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the...

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

Destroy us, land and forest takes forever from your children. Walk the circle of life. Have no fear. Together, let us love and protect our children, respect the land and forest, giving back what we have taken.

Rella Two Trees - The Money Chiefs

Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly. Build an eye.

Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life

Praise to our Indian brothers, and the dark face have his due! Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few, Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them, and slew. That ever upon the topment roof our banne...

Tennyson: Poems

Because no matter how much we think otherwise, there are those ugly things that hold the greatest potential for beauty.

When a Woman Finds Her Voice: Overcoming Life's Hurts & Using Your Story to Make a Difference

Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow Neanderthal!

Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium

Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.

White Oleander

The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why pe...

Why Catholics are Right

MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps All REALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism