So, you've decided to use natural family planning. Has it blessed your marriage? Deepened your respect for your body? Has it made your sex life fantastic? Do you and your spouse hold hands at sunset, and do pink flowers grow around your marital bed? If so, this interview with Simcha Fisher about NFP is not for you. 

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Topics we discussed:

• How to encounter beauty through music, nature, and literature
• ​​Why you should sing (even if you're tone deaf)
• How to pause and contemplate beauty in our daily lives

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Resources we mentioned:

• Humanae Vitae
• "The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning" by Simcha Fisher
• Casti Connubii
• ​50 Years Later: How “Humanae Vitae” Predicted the Future
• "Her Choice, Her Problem", an article from First Things by Richard Stith
• Bayer discontinues controversial birth control Essure
• Fish don’t want birth control, but scientists say they get it from your pill​
• Salvifici Doloris​
• Marquette Method of NFP
• Creighton Model NFP
• Billings Model NFP
• IUseNFP.com
• Couple to Couple League
• "Sex au Naturel: What It Is and Why It's Good for Your Marriage" by Patrick Coffin
• "Contraception - Why Not?" by Janet Smith
• "Contraception and Chastity" by Elizabeth Anscombe
  

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Find Simcha Fisher: 

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Venerable Fulton Sheen writes that "life may be like a game of cards; we cannot help the hand that is dealt us, but we can help the way we play it." Why does God allow suffering in our lives, and how can our suffering be redemptive? 

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J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, "​“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” How do we encounter that which is fair, what is beautiful, with our hearts? 

​Show Notes ​​​​​​

Topics we discussed:

• How to encounter beauty through music, nature, and literature
• ​​Why you should sing (even if you're tone deaf)
• How to pause and contemplate beauty in our daily lives

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Resources we mentioned:

• "Evangelizing through Beauty" by Bishop Robert Barron
• 7 Reasons Why You Need to Crack Open That Mass Hymnal and Make a Joyful Noise
• This Is the Surprising State With the Highest Suicide Rate3
• "My Sisters the Saints" by Colleen Carroll Campbell
• ​"Tolkien's Theology of Beauty" by Lisa Coutras Terris
• "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
• "The Island of the World" by Michael O'Brien
• "The Divine Comedy" by Dante
• ​"The Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot
• "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
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Find Sarah Burns:

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​Show Notes ​​​​​​

Topics we discussed:

• How to encounter someone in an apologetic conversation
• New media evangelization
• Vatican II and respecting the person behind the position
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Resources we mentioned:

• Dr. Lawrence Feingold STD STL
• "The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography" by Matt Fradd
• "The Aesthetics of Architecture" by Sir Roger Scruton
• "This is why Catholic Church's don't look like coffee shops" by Chloe Langr
• "The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet" by Thomas Dubay
• "Orthodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton 
• "​You’re never too old to become a creative person" by Chloe Langr 
• "Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• "The Two Liturgical Rules I Wish Everyone Would Follow" by Joe Heschmeyer 

 
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