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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...]
June 12, 2015
7QT: How Composing, Covers, and Costumes Work
— 1 — Hi folks! Did you want to read a novella-length article on how software development works? I thought you might! I enjoyed the heck out of Paul Ford’s “What is Code?” for Bloomberg Businessweek (and it’s one of only a couple articles I can think of that makes excellent use of being on the [Read More...]
June 11, 2015
Breaking Strains for Robots and Women
The ever-excellent cultural critic Alyssa Rosenberg has written a great essay today titled “Want to understand what it means to be a woman? Look to robots.” The gist: I haven’t seen anyone acknowledge the obvious point that so much of pop culture is making, and has been making for more than half a decade: Robots [Read More...]
June 10, 2015
A Dominican Invitation to Witness [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. Maybe I wouldn’t have been slow to get back into blogging through [Read More...]
June 5, 2015
What I Read On My Book Tour
Sorry for the low posting volume, folks — I’ve spent the last two weeks in New York City and Boston, doing book talks, radio, science museum trips (ok, that last is not technically related to *publicizing* Arriving at Amen, but it is totally in the spirit of the book), and I’ve been a little tuckered out. [Read More...]
