Half Kindled » Human Dignity https://halfkindled.com , but striving to become on fire. Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:39:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 Hope for the Future: A Blog Hop on Post-Partum Depression and Anxiety https://halfkindled.com/post-partum-depression-and-anxiety/ https://halfkindled.com/post-partum-depression-and-anxiety/#comments Wed, 27 May 2015 03:59:42 +0000 http://halfkindled.com/?p=181 Today I am honored to be joined by some immensely talented ladies (who also happen to be among my favorite bloggers) to commemorate May as Maternal Mental Health Month.  We all wanted to come together to provide a resource for women to read the stories of multiple catholic mothers who are having to bear the difficult […]

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I have a custom of writing letters to my children when they are young.  In general, these letters are very personal and a gift that is only shared with the recipient.  Due to the alarming popularity of the “50 Shades of Grey” book and upcoming movie, I decided to make an exception in the case […]

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]]> https://halfkindled.com/dear-anastasia-a-letter-to-my-daughter-on-50-shades-of-grey-2/feed/ 1 To Suffer Slings and Arrows: Finding Meaning in Death and Suffering https://halfkindled.com/to-suffer-slings-and-arrows-finding-meaning-in-death-and-suffering/ https://halfkindled.com/to-suffer-slings-and-arrows-finding-meaning-in-death-and-suffering/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:22:13 +0000 http://halfkindled.com/?p=218

Recently I posted this article written by a college classmate on my Facebook page.  Later that day, a friend asked me to contrast that article to this one (be warned, the article contains vivid descriptions of what it is like to die a lingering, suffering filled death).  This post is born of thoughts I had after reading both.   […]

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Today, I am so excited to share with you a guest post that I wrote for CatholicHousehold.com detailing my experiences volunteering as a peer counselor at a Crisis Pregnancy Center.  One aspect of my work there involved meeting with women considering having an abortion.  If you are curious to learn what that looks like, please […]

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I have a custom of writing letters to my children when they are young.  This letter is one such example.  In general, these letters are very personal and a gift that is only shared with the recipient.  Due to the alarming popularity of the “50 Shades of Grey” book and upcoming movie, I decided to […]

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To think a person’s value is determined by what they produce is a form of slavery whose subtlety allows it to run rampant.  Viewing all relationships in terms of what can be gained is a poor way to live life; and yet the philosophical lens of utilitarianism has colored so many aspects of how we […]

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