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Catholic Dating: Let’s try this again…
A long, long time ago I announced that I was writing a series of posts which would attempt to respond to a question which I have heard asked in frustration by many of my female Catholic friends...
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Catholic Dating: Fear of rejection
So, earlier today I wrote that I wanted to resurrect the abandoned blog series I began last year. I wanted to finally return to address the question I’ve so often heard asked about Catholic guys: why...
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Catholic Dating: Not wanting to be “that guy”
In recent posts I’ve been sharing my thoughts about the question often asked by Catholic females, “Why doesn’t that nice Catholic boy ask me out?” In my last post I wrote about how the fear of...
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Catholic Dating: Friends First
Continuing our discussion concerning the Christian dating scene, today I would like to talk about “Friends First” dating. I would like to ruminate over some of the advantages of this approach, but I...
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Catholic Dating: True love waits…and waits…
In this series I’m trying to examine some of the issues and problems within the Catholic dating world. However, before I get underway with today’s post I would like very briefly to reply to an...
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Catholic Dating: Occam’s Razor
Since beginning this series a couple of weeks ago, I have received a lot of positive feedback. This has come almost exclusively from the ladies. Well, let’s see how long that lasts… So far in my...
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Girls have blogs too!
My friend Anh over at Mod31 has posted a reply to my series on Catholic dating. In her response she summarizes each of my posts to date(!) and adds some of her own commentary. Go read it here:
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Catholic Dating: “Discernment”
Before we get to the subject of today’s post, I wanted to say that I can tell from the site statistics and the conversations I’ve had over the last couple of weeks that a lot of people have been...
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Catholic Dating: “Pursuit”
Today’s post may be somewhat controversial, but I’d like to talk about this particular topic because it was an aspect of dating which most infuriated me in my early twenties. In an earlier post, I...
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Catholic Dating: Analysis Paralysis
This post will be a little longer than usual. Today I will be closing the series by offering some final thoughts on some of the issues I see within the Catholic dating world. Why is it that there don’t...
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“Why doesn’t that nice Catholic boy ask me out?”
Over the last year and a half of blogging I’ve pretty much restricted myself to theological issues. However, today I’ve decided to take my life into my own hands and finally start to address a question...
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Getting that date: Five suggestions
So, a while back I wrote a series of posts on the subject of dating which turned out to be rather popular. People clearly love to read and talk about relationships! At the end of the series, several of...
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Catholic 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...
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Catholic 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...
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Catholic Dating: The issue of chastity
Last week I wrote two posts on the subject of dating outside of the Catholic Faith. In an effort to keep those posts focussed, I had decided to address the specific scenario of a couple composed of two...
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Is there life before marriage? (MP3)
So this past weekend I was at the Southern Kansas Young Adult Conference (SKYAC). I gave a few talks on the retreat, which I’ll post here over the next couple of days. The afternoon opened up with a...
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Restless Heart: 8 –“The ‘Dump Him’ List”
Nessa is in charge this week! This means, of course, that we’re talking about dating. In this episode, Nessa outlines her “Dump Him” List and I offer a few of my own dating red flags as well… Episode...
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New Catholic Dating Website Launched!
For the last couple of months, I have been helping beta test a website which is being launched by a friend of mine. Normally, I’m the one writing the code, so it was a lot of fun having an opportunity...
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So several years ago, after my return to San Diego from Seattle, I sat down and just brainstormed what I was looking for in a wife. Today I get married. Here's the list...
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