Regretting remaining a virgin until marriage
Last month, a controversial blog post was doing the rounds on Facebook. It was written by a lady named Samantha Pugsley and was entitled “I Waited Until My Wedding Night To Lose My Virginity And I Wish...
View ArticleVirgin Regret (Part 2): Abstinence or Chastity?
In my previous post I began to talk about a post which I saw on Facebook written by a girl named Samantha. She was raised a Christian and remained a virgin until her wedding night, but now regrets her...
View ArticleVirgin Regret (Part 3): Vision of Sex & Marriage
Last week I started a series in which I was commenting on an article written by a girl who regrets remaining a virgin until her wedding night. In my previous post I made some distinctions between...
View ArticleVirgin Regret (Part 4): Getting to the wedding
Earlier this week, I wrote a couple more parts to my series which exames the story of a girl named Samantha, who remained a virgin until her wedding night, but who now regrets this decision. So far in...
View ArticleVirgin Regret (Part 5): Conclusion
This is the last post in the series responding to Samantha Pugsley’s article about her regret in remaining a virgin until her wedding night. Losing my religion As a result of all she experienced,...
View ArticleReasons to reject the Reformation
While there was radio silence at the end of last year, Joe from Shameless Popery was busy at work. Not only did he give his blog a nice face-lift, he also produced an excellent series of posts, giving...
View ArticleHistory and the dog who never barked
A while ago, during a discussion in the comment section of this blog, I made the assertion that the historic Church of Christianity was the Catholic Church. A non-Catholic disputed this claim,...
View ArticleWhy should Protestants go to Church?
A little while ago I was commenting on a friend’s blog where we were discussing the practice of church attendance on Sundays. Given that a lot of Protestants comment on his blog, I posed the following...
View ArticleCatholic Dating: Should I date a non-Catholic? (Part 1)
It has been quite some time since I wrote my series on Catholic dating. Those articles were certainly among the more popular here at Restless Pilgrim. The subject matter of those posts generated...
View ArticleCatholic Dating: Should I date a non-Catholic? (Part 2)
Today is the concluding part of yesterday’s article, “Should I date a non-Catholic?”. In the previous post, I explained that this is a question I’ve heard often in Catholic circles and I shared a...
View ArticleYou know what really grinds my gears?
You know what really grinds my gears? :-/ The other day I overheard a conversation during which some of my Catholic friends were speaking particularly brutally about non-Catholics and the non-Catholic...
View ArticleBible Canon Questions
Today over at St. Joseph’s Vanguard Devin wrote an article about How Evangelicals Know Their Canon Is Correct. It describes an exchange Devin had with an Evangelical concerning which books belong in...
View Article“Ask a…” Series
Today I want to highlight a “Question and Answer” series from a blog which I often read. The blog is authored by Rachel Held Evans, an author from what I guess you would say is the more liberal end of...
View ArticleSunday Lectionary: Cleaning Out The House
3rd Sunday Of Lent, 11th March 2012 The First Reading and the Gospel this week recall events of epic proportion. The First Reading takes place three months after the Israelite exodus from Egypt. The...
View ArticleReligion Breakdown
I came across this infographic the other day, detailing the breakdown of religion worldwide and also in the States:
View ArticleBible Translations
One of my friends sent me an email asking about Bible translations and requesting an introductory post on the subject. Well Ricardo, here you go… Before we start talking about different translations,...
View ArticleQuick Apology: Catholics think Mary is divine
This should be the last Marian “Quick Apology” I’ll be doing for a while. After all, I have other things I want to write about! However, before we leave the subject of Mary, I wanted to address the...
View ArticleQuick Apology: Making present again?
I’m going to take a break from my “Quick Apology” series concerning Mary and Saintly Intercession. Today’s “Quick Apology” will be a very brief and concern the Eucharistic liturgy… Objection The...
View ArticleQuick Apology: “No such thing thing as mortal sin”
I haven’t done one of these in a while… In case you haven’t seen my Quick Apology articles before, these are extremely short posts in which describe how I might respond in thirty seconds or less to...
View ArticleRestless Heart: Episode 2 (“Non-Catholic Dating”)
Welcome to Episode 2! In today’s show we tackle the tricky and sensitive subject of non-Catholic dating, the situation where a Catholic is considering dating someone who is not in full communion with...
View ArticleThanks for the memories (Part 1 of 2)
The other day a friend asked me how, in my experience, non-Catholic Christians memorize Sacred Scripture. This is a very reasonable question. It is common to hear Catholics say how impressed (and...
View ArticleThanks for the memories (Part 2 of 2)
Yesterday I told the story of a friend of mine who asked me about how non-Catholics memorize Scripture. I began by offering a few techniques that I’ve used in the past for committing Bible passages to...
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