Roundup: Letters to My Daughers

Everything I've written to my daughters about growing up Catholic.

“I like the cover. ‘Don’t Panic.’ It’s the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody’s said to me all day.” —Arthur Dent

Here are all installments so far in the Letters to My Daughters / Letters to a Growing Catholic¹ series:

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• Letter #1: “The Truth and Nothing but the Truth, So Help Me God” — Against doesn’t-matterism. The truth matters a lot. (27 August 2022)

• Letter #2: “Faith is, Firstly, Reasonable” — Faith flows from reason, not in opposition to it. (2 March 2023)

• Letter #3: “The Leap of Faith is Not to Jump” — Faith holds you to reason, even when you don’t want to be held. (22 March 2023)

• Letter #4: “The Quest (and the Rest)” — Not all are called to a lifelong Quest for the Truth, and I will equip you for either calling. (14 June 2024)

• Letter #5: “Who Aren’t I? Why Aren’t I Here?” — We must free our minds from the assumption of mechanical materialism. (9 August 2024)

• Letter #6: “The One Thing It Ain’t Is Turtles All The Way Down” — an argument from motion (April 2026)

• Letter #7: “The Alien Entity” — (May 2026)

1. I’m still not happy with the name of this series, so I reserve the right to change it again. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Life, the Universe, and Everything, while perhaps closer to the spirit of the series than anything else I’ve come up with, seems like it’s trying way too hard to be cool, like an aging Ford Prefect. My 7-year-old recently told me, “There’s nothing less cool than a dad trying to be cool,” which is true, obvious, yet somehow devastating coming from that tiny mouth.