Faith on the Couch
This is just terrific. Spread it around and share the love (of the nursing relationship)! Read more
This is just terrific. Spread it around and share the love (of the nursing relationship)! Read more
I was genuinely honored today to receive an invitation from internationally-recognized parenting expert/author, Martha Sears, and Attachment Parenting International Board President, Janet Jendron, to become a member of API’s Resource Advisory Council. Dear Greg, I am happy to inform you that the Board of Directors for Attachment Parenting International has voted to ask you to become one of our advisors on the API Resource Advisory Council. Having you as a resource, as an advisor, for the work API does will... Read more
The original Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis reveals a series of fictitious letters between Screwtape, a senior demon, and his nephew, Wormwood, a demon-in-training, about the tricks of the demonic trade of tempting a “patient” (i.e., Christian) away from “the Enemy” (i.e., God). In this tremendous adaptation, a blogger reveals a previously undiscovered letter from Screwtape to Wormwood about how to undermine the faith, marriage, and confidence of “an unappreciated mom.” It’s powerful stuff, and if you’re a mom whose... Read more
(Read Part One Here) The Catechism and Fatherhood What gets in the way of knowing this love deeply? The Catechism of the Catholic Church knows the power of parents. In the section on the Our Father, it states: 2779 Before we make our own this first exclamation of the Lord’s Prayer, we must humbly cleanse our hearts of certain false images drawn “from this world.” … The purification of our hearts has to do with paternal or maternal images, stemming... Read more
Over at Egregious Twaddle, my fellow Patheosi, Joanne McPortland, has a provocative post about What’s Really Wrong with Catholic Religious Education? You should go read it. Chances are, it will do two things. First, I suspect, it will piss you off. Then, I suspect, you’ll find yourself agreeing with it. At least, that’s what happened to me. Her argument is essentially that the academic model of the religious education of children is a completely wrongheaded approach that should be scrapped... Read more
When it comes to home improvement, there have always been do-it-yourselfers (DIYers). And if you’re like me, that means it takes three times as long to complete the project than you expected, three to four more trips to the hardware or big box store than you planned, and a project or two that doesn’t quite get completed. Just as there are DIYers in home improvement, there are DIY Catholics. They come in a variety of flavors. There are those who... Read more
Researchers from the National Institute on Aging and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, analyzed data collected from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies to evaluate the flow of brain activity when religious and non-religious individuals discussed their religious beliefs. Dimitrios Kapogiannis, M.D., and colleagues determined causal pathways link brain networks related to “supernatural agents,” fear regulation, imagery and affect, all of which may be involved in cognitive processing of religious beliefs. “When the brain contemplates a religious belief,” said Kapogiannis, “it is activating... Read more
Catholic Mom Blogger, Sarah, of CloverLane blog is doing a great job walking her readers through the high points of Parenting with Grace: A Catholic Parent Guide to Raising (almost) Perfect Kids Better still, she’s bringing her own wisdom and experience to the table as a mom of 6. Additionally there are some great insights and comments in the responses to her posts. I hope you’ll go check it out and participate in the conversation. Here are her introductory comments.... Read more
A recent study claims, “Religiosity Means Love of Neighbor–If Values Line Up.” You’ll probably be seeing more of this study since it seems like another opportunity for the secular world to prove that “those Christians” aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. The problem is, the study doesn’t actually say what the headlines say it does. What the study does show is that when researchers control for what they term “right wing authoritarianism” (basically a term that means a judgmental, us-versus-them... Read more
One more reason parents need to be mindful of attachment parenting practices. It turns out, the strength of parents’ attachment to their kids predicts kids’ ability to handle conflict in their future marriages. In a recent study examining couples’ conflict management styles …researchers also had data on the target participants’ childhood attachment style and looked at how it impacted their conflict recovery. Unsurprisingly, individuals who were rated as securely attached recovered from conflict better – they knew that in the... Read more
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