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Two great questions from men about NFP

I had a great interview with the witty and insightful Scott Eric Alt of Logos & Muse yesterday, and he incorporated parts of our conversation into his review, Seven Reasons to Read Simcha Fisher’s...

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And that’s exactly why I wrote my book.

Okay, so I’ve been trying not to grouse publicly about it every time someone says boo to me. This is not that! I came across a review that thought the first two third of my book (“NFP and your...

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At the Register: Something Other than God: Jennifer Fulwiler’s New Memoir

. . . is great! Of course it is. But it’s even better than I expected.   Don’t you love the cover? It’s finally ready for just plain buying, rather than pre-ordering. And check out Jennifer’s site for...

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Love, Blame and Hope in the Movie MUD

  PIC Mud poster This movie wasn’t about what is wrong with women, or what is wrong with men. It was more about how difficult love is, and how little it helps when we lie to ourselves. It was a...

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First Things likes The Sinner’s Guide to NFP!

Reviewer Christine Emba says in First Things: What especially recommends The Sinner’s Guide to a broader ­audience is Fisher’s ability to use NFP as a starting point to engage with the larger and more...

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Hollywood is Lady Tremaine: Why I love Branagh’s Cinderella

Saw it, liked it! I agree with just about everything Steve Greydanus says here. I do think the movie would be judged a bit more critically if it had been made in any other decade. Since it dropped out...

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Worth another look: Joe Versus the Volcano

“Dear god, whose name I do not know, Thank you for my life. I forgot… how BIG… thank you. Thank you for my life.” The scene works because it shows so nicely how change of heart really comes about in...

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7 video games, reviewed by my kids

Hey, who wants to talk about SOMETHING ELSE? How about vidya games? My kids play games on the Wii, PS2, and occasionally the iPad and PC. We have tons of the Lego Wii games, and they were all the rage...

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Roald Dahl > John Steinbeck (up to a point)

Today was Roald Dahl Day. You’ve probably read all the famous books by him — James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches (which is seriously disturbing), The BFG, The...

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The lady was sad, and MAD. (We showed the kids an opera!)

My kids’ experience with opera comes entirely from Bugs Bunny, and we really wanted them to branch out. So, with great trepidation, we showed them Don Giovanni last weekend … and they loved  it. More...

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Worth Watching Again: The Edge

The great part of this deft, brisk movie is that you can totally ignore these existential themes of being lost and being found, having direction and having a reason to live, and just watch it because...

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I’m reading, I’m watching, I’m listening to …

I’m reading . . . A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1958). It turns out that the bland title has prevented anyone else in my house from picking this book up, and they had no idea it’s a Catholic...

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I’m reading, I’m watching, I’m listening to . . .

I’m reading . . .  Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith.   Fourth in the Arkady Renko series that began with the brilliant Gorky Park, about which I said this: Maybe because it was so popular when it came...

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Reading, watching, listening to …

I’m reading … When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris Sedaris is the master of the short, comic, grotesque personal essay.  Are his rambling ideas connected, or is he just really good at...

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