Category: A Sampler of Posts
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A whole post on half sandwiches.
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6 comments on A whole post on half sandwiches.Part of the New Year’s food habits roundup. + + + So I have this problem: I don’t actually need very many calories per day. This means that I should have smaller portions than are typically served. Logically, then, I should not eat all of most sandwiches, which are standardized to maintain (or, realistically, to…
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Choosing peace, or something like peace, anyway.
ChristyP sent me a link at just the right time for me yesterday. The post, from a blog I'd not seen before (Steady Mom: On the Journey toward Intentional, Professional Motherhood) is short enough that I'm just going to repost it. Here you go (permalink here): A few days ago I sat down in the…
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Third post about science and faith: Three ways to approach the problem of “lack of scientific evidence for the divine.”
This is the third in a series of post in response to a reader’s request, asking me to write about the “lack of scientific evidence for the divine,” from the perspective of a “scientifically-minded” individual who began Church practice as an adult. In the first post, I offered a working definition of “scientific evidence” and…
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The scientific worldview and faith: Part two of a series.
(Note: I added formatting to this post a few hours after publishing it.) In a post from a few days ago, I wrote: I've been asked privately to write publicly about my perspective as a "person with a strong scientific education and worldview… coming to know or believe in God's reality and divinity." With an…
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Science and history: Part one of a series.
I’ve been asked privately to write publicly about my perspective as a “person with a strong scientific education and worldview… coming to know or believe in God’s reality and divinity.” With an eye toward the “lack of scientific evidence for the divine;” an eye toward the “lack of a need” to rely on supernatural or…
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Taking liberties with Jeremiah on St. John’s Day: For the mothers.
Do you ever feel like you are fighting your children, and your children are fighting you, all day long? + + + From the Office of Readings for today, the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist: Jeremiah 1:4-10, 17-19 The word of the Lord came to me thus: Before I formed you…
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Fitness Friday: Do what you like?
I think I've mentioned before that I don't actually like running very much. Although I do admit that I can sort of see the fun in going for an easy run — that is, if there is such a thing as an easy run, which is only possible if you have endured many not-so-easy ones. Anyway,…
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Sightseers.
A little background, first. + + + One of the things I took away from my in-depth reading of Introduction to the Devout Life was the importance of making a distinction between sins and weaknesses. I wrote here: Sin and weakness are distinct problems, and so St. Francis means to give distinct advice about…
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Gluttony: Drawing the line.
So, I said a few posts ago that I would try to write some ideas about what is, and what isn't, gluttony. This is one of those posts where I become an armchair theologian. I might be on to something, or I might be completely wrong. Take it with a grain of salt! Aquinas's definition…
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The demon that feeds on fasting.
It just goes to show: Never brag. A couple of days ago I wrote a weight loss update in which I mentioned that when I tried to drop a pound, I hadn’t been able to do it without effort, and (not really wanting to make the effort) I hadn’t pushed it. “But I’m holding…
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Switch.
Readers who have been interested in following some of the threads about personal change — becoming an athlete, overcoming gluttony, detaching from time, and maybe even beginning the devout life à la St. Francis de Sales — might be interested in a quick-read book I just finished, one that Mark got for free at work…
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Tagged: Ephesians 5. (Part II – Okay, but like I said, what does “wives, submit to your husbands” mean?)
So Darwin tagged me and asked that question about Ephesians 5, and I went and wrote a post of several paragraphs of, er, scriptural analysis. Which everyone knows is the easy part. Now I’m sitting down to try to answer the hard part. Even though I liked my fellow taggee Dorian’s ranty post about it…