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Hey Hypocrite

By On October 17, 2011 · 12 Comments

My new blog cards are ‘a comin. Let me know if you like them. If I like them when I get here, I’ll send them to you if you want to hand ‘em out or leave them at random co-ops and farmers markets.

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It’s Drop Off Your Pills Day

By On September 25, 2010 · 2 Comments

…and we’re back (again).

I was doing my morning NPR/ Drudge/ Social Media check, and discovered this story on NPR.org that today the Drug Enforcement Administration is encouraging people to dispose of their unused prescription pills in order to 1) get prescription drugs out of black [...]

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Natural & Unnatural

By On January 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Matthew Archibold at Creative Minority Report, one of my fav funny, faithy commentary blogs, discovers first-hand how ironic contracepting organic folks are.

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Planned Parenthood Exec: Choice Includes NFP

By On January 19, 2010 · 9 Comments

Prologue: I’ve updated the Think Again Thursdays Update with my comments on Rachel Bereit’s letter to NFPers.

The organization that got its name from family planning has at least one franchise exec who’s actually aware of planning *and* families. 

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Women Look Beyond the Pill (Surprise!)

By On January 11, 2010 · 2 Comments

No, it’s *not* actually a surprise to NFP fans the that Pill isn’t a panacea. Modern NFP has been around since the 60′s, and more widely known since the 70′s and 80′s. But to those outside the NFP-world-niche, the fact that “Women Look Beyond the Pill” is news.

A Red Tent Sister,

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NFP catching on more in Ecosex Movement

By On December 30, 2009 · 4 Comments

If you’re a regular reader, you know who I am, what my general beliefs are, and that there is a difference between NFP (Natural Family Planning) & FAM (Fertility Awareness Method), namely a religious and moral difference.

Nevertheless, I don’t hesitate to encourage secular folk to check out natural methods [...]

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An Educated, Artsy-Fartsy Protestant on NFP

By On December 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

If you read Dustin at Engaged Marriage’s What You Want to Know About Natural Family Planning, this is Kathleen at Project M‘s reply, which begins

I am an educated, fancy-pants, trendy individual. I have two completely useless liberal-arts [...]

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Catholic PRWire catches TIME article buzz

By On November 11, 2009 · 5 Comments

| Catholic PRWire

My friend Emily, the new Family Planning Coordinator in the Diocese of Madison, just emailed the link to this commentary on the TIME article and a little bit about my work in Madison. It was posted on [...]

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Interesting Conversation at Engaged Marriage

By On November 6, 2009 · 8 Comments

Dustin over at Engaged Marriage did a blog entry on the TIME piece, “Green Sex, anyone?”, which has yielded more than a couple comments, most profusely visited upon by commenter named crow [...]

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Demographic Winter

By On November 5, 2009 · 6 Comments

This is a hot topic these days. Overpopulation alarmists don’t want  you to see it, and will quote all the online articles and second rate scientists they can find to prove otherwise. Still doesn’t help the fact that they’re wrong. Watch this preview and see what you think.

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While not the best piece of [...]

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Thinking Green in Minnesota

By On November 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Last weekend I attended “Renewing the Face of the Earth,” a conference at the university of St. Thomas. Lots of focus on thinking green, emphasis on thinking–tons of philosophy and theology that was way over my head. Favorites included friend Strat Caldecott, acquaintance Joseph Pearce, Paul Monson, & Paul Gondreau.

I [...]

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NFPworks gets a Leno mention

By On October 27, 2009 · 14 Comments

A reader tipped me off that the TIME piece caught the attention of Jay Leno’s writers, evidently. Was he making fun of how…wait for it…how NFP is green, but be warned that your pregnancy test will be blue! People making fun of natural methods of family planning…both shocking [...]

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