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July 8, 2015
Winner on the Tradition Round of the 2015 ITT
The answers are up, and now the votes have been tallied for the first question in the Christian round of the 2015 Ideological Turing Test. Here’s the faux-Christian response to “Why, in a world of many splintered sects, should *your* tradition be trusted?” that real Christians found the most convincing: I’ve grown up in my sect (Episcopalian!) [Read More...]
July 7, 2015
Winner on the Sin Round of the 2015 ITT
The answers are up, and now the votes have been tallied for the first question in the Christian round of the 2015 Ideological Turing Test. Here’s the faux-Christian response to “What sin, if any, lies at the root of all sin” that real Christians found the most convincing: The root of all sin is man’s sinful [Read More...]
July 6, 2015
Discussing Good Ways to Pray Badly tomorrow in DC
I’ll be at the Catholic Information Center in DC on Tuesday night as part of their summer Theology on Tap series. My topic is “Making Mistakes Well in Prayer” and it’s drawn from the final chapter (“Trusting Christ As Peter Does”) of Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers that Even I Can Offer. How do you [Read More...]
June 29, 2015
Answers are up for the 2015 Ideological Turing Test!
The answers are up for this year’s Ideological Turing Test, and graphs and charts of how well you did will be coming all week. This time around, we had a lot more participants, so I’ve appended each writer’s bio (rot13′d to avoid spoilers) after the answer(s) ze wrote. There are more repeat players on [Read More...]
June 26, 2015
Sondheim Playlist for SCOTUS’s Gay Marriage Decisions
For gay marriage supporters with a positive freedom approach to marriage: For gay marriage supporters with a negative freedom approach to marriage: For terrible people (whatever their position on gay marriage): Sorry for radio silence — I was working in FiveThirtyEight’s NY office this week, which eats up a lot of my [Read More...]
June 18, 2015
When People Offer Me Their Weaknesses As Strengths
I still haven’t mentioned my favorite thing that happened during the discussion I hosted on the Benedict Option. In the final half hour of the conversation, we restricted the topic a little. First, people were going to name resources that they had, which might be useful to the group. Then people would basically make wishes [Read More...]
June 17, 2015
Tackling the Small Benedict Option Problems First
A few weeks ago, I hosted a discussion of “the Benedict Option” (ways for Christians to build institutions/habits to do better at providing community to each other / making living the faith feel less like a lonely pursuit) and Peter Blair of Fare Forward (the magazine sponsoring the event) has written up his thoughts. The gathering’s [Read More...]
June 16, 2015
What To Do When You’re Struggling With Catholicism
Pete Socks, the Catholic Book Blogger, is running a giveaway for my book, Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers that Even I Can Offer, and I’ve stopped by chez lui to answer some questions about the book and my prayer life. Here’s a preview: PETE: For those struggling with the Catholic faith what advice can you offer [Read More...]
June 15, 2015
Receiving Fraternal Correction from Non-Catholics [Saints Bookclub]
In 2015, I’m reading and blogging through Ronald Knox’s collection of sermons on Christian exemplars, Captive Flames: On Selected Saints and Christian Heroes. Every Monday (kinda), I’ll be writing about the next portrait in the book, so you’re welcome to peruse them all and/or read along. In this week’s chapter of Captive Flames, Roland Knox discusses the stories [Read More...]
June 13, 2015
Talking to Theologues + A Book Giveaway
I got to have a nice conversation with the guys behind the Theologues podcast when I was their guest on their program, and the radio episode is now up! As your teaser, one thing we wound up talking about that I hadn’t thought about before was a possible reason that Christians tend to wind up [Read More...]
