JonMarc Grodi

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Name: JonMarc Grodi
Date registered: September 12, 2010

Latest posts

  1. HuffPope — May 31, 2013
  2. A Rant About Arguing (oy!….) — May 7, 2013
  3. Thoughts on Technology — May 7, 2013
  4. State of Family and Marriage Research — May 2, 2013
  5. Don Smith – Direct Evangelization at Gateway Moments — February 8, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Eucharistic Adoration: Alone with the Perilous Question — 21 comments
  2. Why I Pray Boring Prayers — 17 comments
  3. Two Fears – The Reasons We Avoid Discovering Whether God Is Really There — 5 comments
  4. The Rewatchability of Movies and the Mystery of the Human Person — 5 comments
  5. 7 Quick Takes Friday: Books, Books, Books, Advent (books!) — 5 comments

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May 31

HuffPope

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Culture Wars

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Huffington Post repeats and compounds their errors in reporting. The Pope said Atheists/Catholics/Everyone-ever “ARE redeemed” (not “will be redeemed” which people then read as “will be saved”). There was no “break with tradition”.If Christ did indeed go to the cross and rise after three days, he did so for everyone. All have sinned and need …

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May 07

A Rant About Arguing (oy!….)

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There are a lot of ways that we are called to endure injustice. Some of them we are more comfortable with than others. One of them is how we conduct ourselves in discussion/debate with those we disagree. Principled people of any sort face the challenge today of a public that is, at large, irrational, illogical, …

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May 07

Thoughts on Technology

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Philosophy and Culture

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I’ll be chatting with Jon Leonetti on the morning show on Iowa Catholic Radio today about technology – specifically: how to keep from being mastered by technology. It will be a very quick little chat and so I don’t know how far we will get but I wanted to post a few thoughts and links …

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May 02

State of Family and Marriage Research

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Culture Wars, Marriage & Family, Uncategorized

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Terri Carrol, a sociology professor at Bowling Green and the co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR), has a lot of interesting information to share in the article “State of the American Family” that was recently published in BGSU Magazine. But what goes unsaid in fact speaks far louder. Behind the …

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Feb 08

Don Smith – Direct Evangelization at Gateway Moments

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Catholicism, Culture Wars

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A big part of the New Evangelization is the restatement of the obvious. Catholic convert Don Smith gives fantastic advice for identifying and seizing important evangelistic moments.

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Jan 21

Screwtape: Master of Misdirection

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Why Aren't We Saints?

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This passage comes from chapter VI of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, the correspondence between a senior demon, Uncle Screwtape, and his pupil, Wormwood. This is a favorite passage of mine because like all of Lewis’ work, it is such an eminently practical bit of insight into the the interplay of temptation, grace, and our …

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