Bonus link: Second half of interview in World magazine
I will devote several Mondays to the exchange of letters which this interesting note began.
Bonus link: Second half of interview in World magazine
Transexual: A person who identifies as a member of the other sex.
Transracial: A person who identifies as a member of another race.
Transpresleyan: A person who identifies as Elvis Presley.
ANTE STUDIUM
(Before Study)
Thomas Aquinas
Click here and go to 52:16 for a very funny out-take of interviewer Douglas Wilson trying to pronounce my last name.
Wheatley Institution, Brigham Young University, 2015
Mondays are for answering letters. This isn’t exactly a letter, but I think it's close enough; it’s a question I have been asked frequently, most recently when I was speaking about natural law at Acton Institute’s annual conference on the foundations of a free and virtuous society.
Everyone admits that pain is educational: Since I feel agony when I put my hand into the fire, I don’t do it again. Curiously, we are much more reluctant to admit that there is such a thing as natural disgust, and disgust is educational too. St. John Chrysostom makes this point exactly in his Homily on First Timothy:
Mondays are always for replying to letters from readers. I’ve paraphrased this letter for brevity.