Dear Janelle, I received your letter yesterday, and had already heard from your brother and sister-in-law. They confirmed for me the very difficult and challenging situation you are in with your husband, and they said that they had encouraged you to write to me with your question. I was glad to hear from you. From …
The Facebook Penalty Box
I am posting an article below by Robert Gagnon. I am posting it here because Facebook removed it earlier when Gagnon posted it, and suspended him for a day. Having posted it here, I will send it out to Twitter and Facebook, and would encourage you all to share it all over the place. Incidentally, …
And Now for a Radical Concept
“I believe that a free people should be able to grow, harvest, sell, truck, shelve, freeze, process, buy, cook, or savor whatever [food] they please, just so long as they do it on their own dime” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 146).
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An Important Point in There
No, Wait
“The coming ice age is coming, the globe is warming, and the science is settled, no, wait. Turns out the globe got so hot it cooked the books” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 143).
When the Flavor Alliterates
“Food must indeed be sanctified. But the only thing that sanctifies it is the gravy of grace and gratitude” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 140).
So You Married a Feminist
Dear Steven, Thanks for the letter, and it sounds like quite a dilemma. You’ve been married for five years, and you have a good marriage, but for one sore spot. You didn’t put it to me this way, but that sore spot is the result of you gradually coming to realize (despite your intention in …
Fake and Real
“Once the indignation is established, it becomes possible to draw on a hidden premise that too many Americans share—that sins should be crimes—and move from that position to the idea that made-up sins should be made into real crimes” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 139).
A Review of an N.T. Wright Book. Ta Da!
And I hardly ever use exclamation marks. As regular readers here know, I periodically review books chapter by chapter. We are now in the process of making those reviews available to you in ebook form, and the first one has now arrived on our digital shelves. Some time ago, I reviewed N.T. Wright’s book, Surprised …