Category: A Sampler of Posts
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Time is not money.
I was trying, the other day, to explain to a friend why one homeschooling scheduling method (Managers of Their Homes) completely turned me off, while another (A Mother’s Rule of Life) appealed so much to me. The first (MOTH) entails making a detailed, regimented schedule for each child in the family and for the mother,…
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What to say to Bible-believing friends when they ask you whether your unborn baby is a girl or a boy, if you don’t do ultrasounds or prenatal testing.
Just quote Isaiah 45:10. Woe to him who asks a father, "What are you begetting?" or a woman, "What are you giving birth to?"
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Answer: Because the bracelets would take too long to explain.
Why is it always "What would Jesus Do?" Why isn’t it "What would Jesus tell ME to do?" Thank you and good night.
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If I believed this assumption, I would not be where I am right now.
Common assumption: "A mother who cares for her own children is isolated in her house with them all day, the monotony broken only by swim class and music lessons." Common corollary: "A parent (mother or father) who works to provide for the family’s material needs is away from the home and the children all day."…
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What is a vocation anyway?
I’m not sure this talk of vocations makes sense outside of a Catholic context. Do Protestant and other denominations have the concept of "vocation?" How can we explain it to those who don’t? I suppose we start from Heaven and work backwards. Heaven is like a wedding feast. Cf. Hosea. Cf. the book of Revelation. …
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At least carrying all those heavy books prepared me for carrying a toddler.
A reasonable question raised on one of my Catholic discussion lists: "Why would a young woman spend three or four years to get a specialized degree that she won’t ever be using?" In other words, is education wasted on the at-home mother? Really, for those of us whose vocation is marriage and motherhood, and who…
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This isn’t so hard, folks
Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, archbishop of Vienna, wrote an op-ed in the NYT stating that evolution driven by random processes is incompatible with truth: Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense – an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection – is not. Any system…
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Michelangelo
From the L. A. Times: Throughout the two-day conclave, Mahony said, he and other cardinals were moved by the fact that they were participating in a historic event in the dramatic setting of the Sistine Chapel, adorned with paintings of damnation and salvation by Michelangelo, including the "Last Judgment." "I kept looking up at all…
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“So that’s what they’re for”
Editing note years later. This is one of my earliest posts on the subject. If I were to write it today, I’d want to make it more clear that the problem, or fault, with just baring one’s breast to nurse a baby doesn’t belong to either mother or baby. It’s not surprising that we usually…
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