I will share with you something I learned by being in conflict with multiple people whom I care about. The lesson is that confrontation is love and cancel culture denies dignity.
Confrontation Vs Cancel Culture
Why The Sins Are Deadly
While I completely agree with the Church's teaching on these sins, I know that many of the students I teach, and I as well, can sometimes get a false sense of security born out of these types of sins. We can treat these smaller, venial sins as if they're not a big deal. I haven't done anything THAT bad, so I'm fine. This is a dangerous mistake in a couple of ways.
Episode 79 – Getting Familiar
This week, AJ and Brandon talk about Storge, commonly treated as family love, but better understood as familiar love. How do we understand the tension between this love as being driven by both need and gift?
Episode 77 – Love and Friendship
Following our talk last week about viewing our relationship with God as friendship, AJ and Brandon start looking at the virtue of love using CS Lewis' Four Loves as the starting point. This week, it's friendship, of philia.
Episode 76 – Images of God
Brandon shares his discomfort with hearing God described simply as a friend to his daughter, leading he and AJ to discuss the pros and cons of some of the images of God we use, and specifically how to approach teaching children about how to have a healthy relationship with God.
An Introvert Posts In Gratitude for Roommates
As someone who is more of an introvert, I definitely enjoyed some of the many memes that came out at the beginning of quarantine that joked about it being the introverts time to shine, or live their best lives, or any of a million other lines making the same point. It didn't take long, though, before I realized that my introversion has some clearly defined limits.
The Four Loves and Healthy Male Friendship
Love and Male Friendship: The way people often assume that intimate friendships between men suggest a romantic link is unhealthy. Men are called to intimate, masculine relationships.