Leah Libresco's Blog, page 30
April 17, 2015
What’s Underappreciated About Your Tradition? [2015 ITT]
This is part of the 2015 Ideological Turing Test series, where Christians and non-Christians test how well they understand one another. In this first round, Christians answer the prompts honestly, and atheists try to answer them as they expect the Christians to. Your job is to see if you can spot the difference. You [Read More...]
April 15, 2015
Why Should Your Tradition Be Trusted? [2015 ITT]
This is part of the 2015 Ideological Turing Test series, where Christians and non-Christians test how well they understand one another. In this first round, Christians answer the prompts honestly, and atheists try to answer them as they expect the Christians to. Your job is to see if you can spot the difference. You can [Read More...]
April 13, 2015
What Sin is at the Root of All Sins? [2015 ITT]
This is part of the 2015 Ideological Turing Test series, where Christians and non-Christians test how well they understand one another. In this first round, Christians answer the prompts honestly, and atheists try to answer them as they expect the Christians to. Your job is to see if you can spot the difference. You can [Read More...]
2015 Ideological Turing Test [Index Post]
A conventional Turing Test checks whether a computer program can convincingly counterfeit human conversation. An Ideological Turing Test checks whether someone can convincingly imitate the beliefs and reasoning of someone they disagree with. It’s a way to see how well you understand the ideas you would like to debunk. This year, I looked through your suggested [Read More...]
April 9, 2015
Running the numbers on autism, welfare reform, and exonerations
While you’re reading this, I will quasi-not exist. (I’m on a plane to New Zealand, and, as a consequence of the International Date Line, I won’t have a Thursday this week). I’m off to speak at the Eucharistic Convention in Auckland and do a Theology on Tap in Sydney. Next week. I’ll be running this [Read More...]
April 8, 2015
Anselm Lived at the *Wrong* Scale [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, I’ll be writing about the next portrait in the book, so you’re welcome to peruse them all and/or read along. Reading Ronald Knox’s sermon on St Anselm, I was reminded of my own [Read More...]
April 6, 2015
Help me pack books for my trip Down Under!
Wednesday afternoon, I’m getting on a plane for New Zealand. I’ll be speaking at the Auckland Eucharistic Convention and doing a Theology on Tap in Sydney. It’s a very long series of flights, plus my mom (who’s travelling with me) and I like to walk in parks and pause to read when we travel, so I [Read More...]
March 31, 2015
I’ve taken a job at FiveThirtyEight!
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve started working this week at FiveThirtyEight. I’m a news writer, so most of my pieces will be shorter, news cycle-driven pieces on data angles in the stories of the day. I like to read “data” a little broadly, so I’m as excited to write about choices of methodology as [Read More...]
March 30, 2015
Even a Small Saint is an Urgent Need [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, 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, Ronald Knox sets up St. Edward the Confessor [Read More...]
March 29, 2015
Learning Fellowship from Mary
Before I picked up Denise Bossert’s Gifts of the Visitation: Nine Spiritual Encounters with Mary and Elizabeth, I had run into a very short meditation on Mary’s visit to Elizabeth on a friend’s tumblr. the first christian and the first person to make a declaration of christian faith the visitation is so important. 2 pregnant women, caring [Read More...]
