Dr. Carrie Gress argues that feminism has made women miserable by teaching them to reject motherhood. The antidote? A return to the Christian vision of womanhood.

Ep. 603

📚 Resources Mentioned:

• NEW* Something Wicked: https://a.co/d/0aXXDGbc

Christ's Transformation of Womanhood: https://theologyofhome.substack.com/p/christs-transformation-of-womanhood

Carrie Gress: https://www.carriegress.com

Theology of Home: https://theologyofhome.substack.com

Carrie Gress Substack: https://substack.com/@carriegress

Theotokos Rosaries: https://dwplus.shop/TheotokosRosaries

Truthly 30 Day Free Trial: https://get.truthly.ai/TlbX/MATT30

It’s Last Call! Jay Stringer is here to debunk six myths about pornography you may have bought into.

Pints: Last Call Ep. 38

Jay Stringer joins the show, emphasizing that lasting freedom from porn comes from grieving the origin stories behind our desires, not from white-knuckling and will power.

Ep. 602

📚 Resources Mentioned:

More from Jay Stringer: https://jay-stringer.com

Desire by Jay Stringer: https://jay-stringer.com/books

Desire by Jay Stringer (AUDIO BOOK): https://open.spotify.com/show/7dxLRVVGueabQwRuCYGSWB?si=bb618491a17f45e8

Unwanted by Jay Stringer: https://jay-stringer.com/books

Unwanted by Jay Stringer (AUDIO BOOK): https://open.spotify.com/show/3FghpbxBABfAhUDNktGuDg?si=7361ff07f2674ffc

The Journey Course by Jay Stringer: https://www.thejourneycourse.com

Good Pictures Bad Pictures: https://a.co/d/06Z8EeWW

Theotokos Rosaries: https://dwplus.shop/TheotokosRosaries

Truthly 30 Day Free Trial: https://get.truthly.ai/TlbX/MATT30

Working on an entire album of lofi music. Here's one of those songs. Album should drop next week. THEN, a couple of weeks after that we hope to have our 24/7 stream up and running.

THE ERROR OF ARIUS ABOUT THE INCARNATION

In their eagerness to proclaim the unity of God and man in Christ, some heretics went to the opposite extreme and taught that not only was there one person, but also a single nature, in God and man. This error took its rise from Arius. To defend his position that those scriptural passages where Christ is represented as being inferior to the Father, must refer to the Son of God Himself, regarded in His assuming nature, Arius taught that in Christ there is no other soul than the Word of God who, he maintained, took the place of the soul in Christ’s body. Thus when Christ says, in John 14:28, “The Father is greater than I,” or when He is introduced as praying or as being sad, such matters are to be referred to the very nature of the Son of God. If this were so, the union of God’s Son with man would be effected not only in the person, but also in the nature. For, as we know, the unity of human nature arises from the union of soul and body.

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RESTORATION OF MAN BY GOD THROUGH THE INCARNATION

We indicated above that the reparation of human nature could not be effected either by Adam or by any other purely human being. For no individual man ever occupied a position of pre-eminence over the whole of nature; nor can any mere man be the cause of grace. The same reasoning shows that not even an angel could be the author of man’s restoration. An angel cannot be the cause of grace, just as he cannot be man’s recompense with regard to the ultimate perfection of beatitude, to which man was to be recalled. In this matter of beatitude angels and men are on a footing of equality. Nothing remains, therefore, but that such restoration could be effected by God alone.

But if God had decided to restore man solely by an act of His will and power, the order of divine justice would not have been observed. justice demands satisfaction for sin. But God cannot render satisfaction, just as He cannot merit. Such a service pertains to one who ...

Día de los Muertos: The Catholic Heart of the Day of the Dead

The Día de los Muertos is one of the most vivid examples in the world of what happens when Catholic faith encounters an existing culture — and the story behind it reveals something profoundly Catholic at its core.

🌿 The Roots: Pre-Christian and Catholic

The Day of the Dead originates from the ancient traditions and beliefs of Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica — particularly the Aztecs, Toltecs, Olmecs, and Maya — who saw death as a continuation of life. The festival fell in the ninth month of the Aztec calendar, around the beginning of August, and was celebrated for an entire month — with festivities dedicated to a deity known as the "Lady of the Dead."

Then came the evangelization of the Americas. When the Spanish colonizers arrived in the 16th century, they brought with them Roman Catholic observances such as All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day (November 1 and 2, respectively) and introduced a new calendar system. The Catholic Church moved ...