Wanted or Unwanted: Desire, Worth, and the Human Person
My mum was 17 when she had me. She had very little help with the pregnancy. She faced rejection, abandonment, and confusion at the onset,
My mum was 17 when she had me. She had very little help with the pregnancy. She faced rejection, abandonment, and confusion at the onset,
“We cannot make circumstances turn out in a specific, pre-determined resolution of our preference. We can, however, know that when these decisions greet us, we can cut every tie, every umbilical, every grasp, and offer ourselves to the equation, regardless of the pain.”
You may not be able to create life, but you can almost always save one. If you say yes.
“Investors see refunds and returns and, since humans are neither of those, they will always come up empty.”
“We’ve got a stranglehold on being “us”, because we’re afraid of losing ourselves in the swarm; but the problem with a stranglehold is that, eventually, what we’re holding gets….strangled.”
From the onset, that’s what I always found in Superman and wanted for myself. No one was left unaffected. In that possible world, the scrawny and the bully, the beautiful and the broken, they all squint upward, crane their necks, and rise.
That’s the beautiful message of this gospel of life (evangelium vitae)–that our seemingly feeble attempts at love, our lackluster stutter steps not only make Him proud, but that His strength is most evident in my weakness.
My wife, Jacelyn, is a pit bull when it comes to anything she knows is true, right, or necessary. When she looked out the window
It is the heart of Christianity, though, to leave the safety of innocence and take the pain and suffering of someone else’s guilt upon yourself…Fight to preserve the innocent, but fight just as hard to restore the guilty.
I have friends who have PhD’s. I am married to an MD. I am surrounded by people who have been in school for nearly every year
My in-laws are moving in. Within 24 hours, they will reside in our residence. The lives of the Davidsons and the Dales are about to
The most fun comes from the times He waits a bit longer to catch you than He has before.
Last month, I wrote about the new virtue I’ve created which enables us to restrain our responses, tame our tongues, and control our selves. I am calling
The wisdom and liberation in choosing what, when, and where you fight.
The descriptions are many, the adjectives are abundant. Travesty. Horrific. Incomprehensible. Senseless. You can’t scroll down one page on Facebook without seeing a shared link
For the first 7 years of our marriage, I tried my darndest to be the best husband on the planet. “Get over yourself, Nic” was
You are for me. Each of you. All of you. You breathe for me. You are for my sake. You work for me. You accumulate
On May 12, I contracted Chikungunya Fever, a mosquito-born virus that has recently been declared an epidemic in the Caribbean. Symptoms included fever, rash, intense
Last weekend, I was one of the speakers at a pro-life rally in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. I’d never spoken at such an event, but, because I do believe
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One Trick Pony, One Message Fool At the risk of sounding like a broken record in everything I write, both at Ignitum and elsewhere, let me