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Fri 19 Sep, 2008

Enjoying the Gift but Loving the Giver More

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In our diocesan parenting program, “Teaching the Way of Love,” one of the points we make is that we need to teach our children how to receive love well in addition to teaching them how to give love. I tell the story of Christmas at my parents’ home and at the home of my in-laws.

At my wife’s family’s Christmas celebration the kids are turned loose at a designated… Continue reading

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Thu 18 Sep, 2008

Truth in Touching

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A participant of one of our “Teaching the Way of Love” programs for parents told me about the family of her son’s girlfriend. In the desire to keep their daughter pure, the girlfriend’s parents have put some major restrictions on her dating behavior. One of these restrictions is that she is not allowed to kiss until her wedding day. The program participant wanted to know if I felt that was… Continue reading

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Fri 4 Jul, 2008

A Country of Virtue

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Thanks in large part to modernist historians, the Christian roots of the United States have been brought into question. While for the most part I have no tolerance for modernist philosophies, we can thank modernist historians for a few trends that have the potential to actually improved historical studies, especially in high schools – abandoning hagiographies, examining primary sources, critical thinking, the awareness of multiple perspectives on an historical event… Continue reading

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Mon 23 Jul, 2007

America is More Liberal?

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It’s time to rebrand the `L-word’ – 06/24/2007 – MiamiHerald.com What’s interesting, says Waldman, is that whether or not they accept the L-word, Americans are clearly moving further left all the time. For example, 30 years ago, conservatives and liberals sparred over whether women could do ”man’s” work and black people could marry white ones. To both questions, the country said yes. ”What had been the radical
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Mon 9 Apr, 2007

Being a Parent Means Taking Responsibility

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Children are eating more junk food and who is to blame? Advertisers, apparently. Check out this quotation from an article in U.S. News and World Report:USNews.com: Selling kids cereal with sugar and toysHarvard psychologist Susan Linn calls it “running the gantlet”–negotiating supermarket aisles filled with products heavily marketed to children. Today, in the face of a huge increase in childhood obesity, kids are bombarded by an unprecedented avalanche
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