Hobbit-Sense at OneFreeGarden.com

Okay so last week I was so on the ball and this week I’m back to not being so on the ball.. but on the bright side, I’m now 9 hours ahead of Jen… which makes me 9 hours less late! Continue reading

Remember, a good Chirstian is not someone who doesn’t ever sin, but someone who repents every time he does. That means that, ultimately, the definition of a successful life is one in which we repent one more time than we sin. Continue reading

Hurray for me- I’m being smart this time and actually starting a draft for this earlier so I can be on time.  The graphic to the right is a link so be sure to visit the other Quick Takes participants’ pages through the link list at Jen’s Conversion Diary host page.

Most probably we are in Eden still. It is only our eyes that have changed. Continue reading

Just a quick post because I just read Zenit (Catholic world news update email thingie) and it had what I consider astonishing news. Christ wants us to be one. Although every schism is heartbreaking, to me in some ways the most tragic one is the split between Catholic and Orthodox. Continue reading

So, I’m back… mostly? Kind of? Calling in from another place? If you see an update on this later, chances are I’m just adding in a link to Jen’s.. because even if she does it in the middle of the night, I’m still 9 hours ahead of her now… oh my… I wonder if that makes me the farthest quick-taker? Let’s compare… I’m in Moscow now… Continue reading

There is no escaping the fact that Kennedy’s flaws and particularly his public political support for abortion have given scandal and also have harmed the Church through tacit encouragement of the view that one can be a Catholic in good standing and support morally objectionable causes that have been expressly prohibited by the Vatican. But there is also no escaping God, whose standard shows all of us that our “good standing” leaves quite a lot to be desired. Continue reading

Quick Takes makes a comeback at Hobbit-Sense! Amazing. Continue reading

There is a concept articulated very clearly in Catholic teaching that goes something like this: “Love the sinner, abhor the sin.” There may well be other traditions that have this idea, but it seems to get discarded really quickly these days, by Christians of all stripes, including Catholics. And it usually comes from misguided understanding of love. Continue reading

(A brief note that this is in no way a criticism of actual vegetarians.)

I’ve been mulling over this idea for a while but it was only in a conversation with Plush Appendix over the weekend that I put a name to it. I call it vegetarianism of faith not because of an abstenance borne of good will. Rather, this is the choice to avoid the “meatier” elements of faith, because… Continue reading