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February 13, 2015
Looking forward to The Last 5 Years tonight!
I’m a little too busy to do Quick Takes today; among other things, I’m hosting about 20 people at my place tonight to watch The Last 5 Years, and I promised to make dinner for all of them. (When I offered to cook, only 7 people had RSVP’d so far). The movie is in very limited release, [Read More...]
February 12, 2015
Why Make People Derive the Rules for Sex Themselves?
I’ll be sending the monthly update on my book Arriving At Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers that Even I Can Offer next week, and if you get the email, you can enter a lottery to get an early copy. After I wrote a post on practical questions to ask about consent and coercion (and the way making [Read More...]
February 11, 2015
Ethical Sex: Paying attention to the consequences of “No”
A friend of mine shared an excellent essay with me on ways to understand consent. Everyone is pretty familiar with “No means no” (even if the applications of sometimes remind me of what law school friends have sometimes told me about police executing unwarranted searches — in one case, asking if they could search, removing the [Read More...]
February 10, 2015
Offering hospitality to introverts, athletes, and other strange-to-me types
In the last week, I’ve run into two great pieces on how to offer hospitality, both by creating and supporting “third places” (a third place, apart from the home or the office for fellowship) or in one-to-one encounters. Both these pieces don’t just make actionable, concrete suggestions, they fill in lacuna in my own way [Read More...]
February 9, 2015
Learning the Dragonslayer’s Laughter [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 his sermon on St. George, Knox focuses primarily on why England would [Read More...]
February 7, 2015
Cultivating Openness to Truth During Fights [Radio Readings]
You can listen to “Fights in Good Faith,” my weekly radio program, streaming today at 5pm ET and tomorrow (Sun) at 1pm. I’ll edit this post when the audio is available to stream (and, starting this week, to download!). This week’s program is adapted from a talk I gave at St. Dominic’s in San Francisco on “Cultivating [Read More...]
February 5, 2015
7QT: Translation, Codebreaking, and other language games
If you’re sorry to have missed my talk in San Francisco on “Cultivating Openness to Truth” this week, tune into my radio show tomorrow at 5pm ET – I’ll be covering the highlights. And, for those of you who can’t catch the livestream, my program is beta-testing Real Life Radio’s downloadable podcasts, specifically because several [Read More...]
When it’s illegal to live with your friends…
There are two reasons why I recommended that friends who want to cultivate deeper relationships with each other move into apartment buildings yesterday. The first reason is simply that they’re convenient. When a building is large enough, it’s relatively easy to find an open unit in your friend’s building to move into (especially if you live in [Read More...]
February 4, 2015
Love and Real Estate, All About Location, Location Location
The best living experience I’ve had was definitely in college. The density of people meant that third places were everywhere — dining halls, courtyards, and coffee shops that I could sit in and be stumbled across by friends, and settle in for conversation and companionship. It’s hard to replicate as an adult, because, even [Read More...]
February 2, 2015
A Fired-Up, Fusty Witness to Christian Faith [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. The first sermon in the book is on Saint Cecilia, who Knox [Read More...]
