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February 17, 2015
No Villains, Just Inept Lovers in The Last 5 Years
The Last 5 Years tells the story of Jamie and Cathy’s relationship, from the moment they meet, through when they marry, to the moment, five years after they relationship began, their marriage ends. The musical is a series of sung monologues–Jamie and Cathy each telling the story of their relationship in alternating songs, that cover [Read More...]
February 16, 2015
Promises No One Asks the Church to Keep [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 is describing St. Gregory the Great, and [Read More...]
Love Applied to Charity and Fighting in New Haven
I’m making speaking appearances in New Haven today and tomorrow, so here’s a heads up for students in the area. Effective Altruism and Caritas Yale Effective Altruists Monday, Feb 16, 5pm JE Dining Hall When looking for high-impact opportunities to give, how should we weight the effect that different ways of giving have on the giver? [Read More...]
February 15, 2015
Independence and Injustice [Radio Readings]
You can listen to “Fights in Good Faith,” my weekly radio program, streaming today at 5pm ET and tomorrow (Sun) at 1pm. The episode is now available to download and stream. This week’s program is about the systems we build to administer justice, and the ways that these systems lose our trust Every week, I put up a [Read More...]
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...]
