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December 9, 2015
God & Comics invited me on to discuss webcomics
I had a lot of fun spending an hour with God and Comics’ three nerdy priests as we discussed the way comics change when they move online, our favorite weird niche strips made possible by the internet, and different stories’ different views of what it means to be a hero. Here’s the link to the episode. [Read More...]
November 30, 2015
Big Discounts on Arriving At Amen Today
If you’ve been meaning to check out my book on prayer, Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers That Even I Can Offer, today’s a great day to pick up a copy (or grab one as a gift for a friend). The kindle edition is $4 on Amazon. If you’d prefer a paper copy, Ave Maria Press [Read More...]
November 19, 2015
Discussing the Limits Of Religion Polling on What’s The Point?
I had a great time talking to Jody Avirgan (my colleague at FiveThirtyEight) and Emma Green of The Atlantic about the limits of statistics to tell us interesting things about religion. (This was the first time I got to meet Emma in person, and she’s just as sharp and delightful as her performance on this [Read More...]
November 13, 2015
Mainline Protestant Churches Offer A Warmer Welcome to Whites
Over at FiveThirtyEight, I’ve got a rundown of a new paper that tried to check how receptive different Christian denominations were to new members of different races: A team led by Bradley Wright, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut, sent emails to more than 3,000 churches across America. Each email was [Read More...]
November 12, 2015
Mallory Ortberg Interviewed Me About Converting
If you’ve come here from the Toast, and want to know more about my conversion: you might like the series of three posts I wrote before my baptism (which rely heavily on musical theatre). You might also want to take a look at my book, Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers that Even I Can Answer, [Read More...]
November 6, 2015
Covering Religion Surveys as Both a Catholic and a Statistician
I’m over at First Things today, to talk about how I cover religion statistics as both a Catholic and a journalist (two roles both oriented toward truth). In a way, these religion surveys remind me of the perennial studies of how few Americans believe that the earth goes round the sun, that evolution shaped human [Read More...]
November 2, 2015
Hosting a Hamilton Listenthru
If you’ve been enjoying listening to the Hamilton cast album, I definitely recommend hosting a listenthru party. I had about 30 friends over this weekend to hear the whole album together, and we all had a great time. We started the afternoon with the rule “No singing along, and, if you can’t stop yourself from mouthing along, [Read More...]
October 31, 2015
October 30, 2015
7QT: Magic, Secrets, and Bureaucracy
— 1 — I already love Ikea, source of all my bookshelves, but I particularly like their new line of plush toys, all designed to look like actual kids’ drawings. There are more examples, all delightful, at this link. — 2 — Another example of glorious inventiveness: the Mahler Hammer. I found this via Hello [Read More...]
October 28, 2015
The People I Don’t Learn to Love
After reading my essay on “Both/And Philanthropy,” one of my friends told me that there was something I was leaving out of my hybrid approach. Here’s how I said that I balance attentiveness to material and spiritual goods: And when it comes to the fundamental divide between Beer and MacAskill, for my own part, I [Read More...]
