Luceat!

I thought I would chime in for the conversation at hand. Reading the recent posts, I am humbled to be in the midst of a group of writers with such wit and eloquence in prose. I have found myself asking, “What is my two cents on this subject?” I am not sure if I have […]

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I’m glad we’ve had rather spirited discussion of late — kudos, all. I’ll offer here some scattered musings which I hope shed at least a bit more light on the topics at hand.
I’ve found that conversations about gender (even in circles composed of presumably like-minded individuals) so often go astray, diverted almost immediately into […]

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There’s another great question raised by the recent set of posts. In short, “how is a man to subject himself to his wife in the context of mutual submission?”
It seems that if it is a man’s mission to lay down his life for his wife and play a humble role in her sanctification, then there […]

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On October 22nd, Matt, one of my fellow FOCUS Bloggers, offered on an opinion post entitled “Women Leading Men.” This post became not only the object of an excellent discussion online, but even more so the catalyst of conversation among missionaries, students and others across the country, and women in particular. Having been one […]

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Does man have an end? This became the central question in a discussion I had with a (fallen-away Catholic, now almost atheistic) philosophy major on campus this week. So many people on our campuses ask similar questions: What is my purpose? Why do I wake up and go about my daily routine […]

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One idea I hinted at in my last post is the reasonableness of taking what we are as given, implying that there are certain fundamental aspects of being human which, generally speaking, we can’t not know (or at least without recognition of which we can’t function properly). On a recent visit to artrenewal.org, I […]

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