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January 18, 2015
I’m coming to the Bay Area and the Bayou, invite me to speak!
I’ll be travelling for work in the next few months, so, if you were hoping I would come to speak in your neighborhood without having to cover my travel costs, this is your lucky day… provided you live in New Orleans or the Bay Area. I have conventions for work that will put me in: San [Read More...]
January 17, 2015
MLK and Making Invisible Violence Visible [Radio Readings]
You’ll be able to catch my weekly radio program, “Fights in Good Faith” streaming today at 5pm ET and tomorrow (Sun) at 1pm. And the archived audio is already up on the show page! Every week, I put up a “Radio Readings” post, so you can track down the books, articles, songs, (and, this week, [Read More...]
January 15, 2015
7QT: Math Puns, Set Tricks, and Artificial Worlds
Just a reminder, my new radio show (“Fights in Good Faith”) began last week (and the first episode is now up for streaming). Tune in live this week at 5p Saturday or 1p on Sunday. I’ll be talking about my visit to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. — 1 — It’s hard to [Read More...]
What it Means for me to be a *Catholic* Writer
Yesterday, I wrote in praise of Dominicans, and today I have an interview to share with you that I did with a Jesuit. Sean Salai, S.J. sent me eleven questions about my conversion and my current spiritual life, and you can read my answers in America. Here’s a preview: How does Catholicism influence your approach to [Read More...]
January 14, 2015
Settling Into Our Sociable Third Places
I’ve been reading (and loving!) sociologist’s Ray Oldenburg’s The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community, and, today, I’m over at Ethika Politika talking about how to rebuild some of the “Third Places” that Oldenburg praises–places outside of work or home where we come to [Read More...]
January 13, 2015
How Small a Promise Can a Vocation Be?
I’m looking forward to hearing Eve Tushnet speak about her book, Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith, tonight at the Catholic Information Center in DC. And that means it seems like a good time to blog about her book one more time. In November, I hosted a book club for [Read More...]
January 12, 2015
“You Shouldn’t Say That…” as a gift, not an attack
I’m at The American Conservative today, talking about the legitimacy of campaigns for civility and condemnations (not de jure censorship) of extreme and/or offensive speech: The Case for Civility Campaigns After Charlie Hebdo Arguing that campaigns for civility, against catcalling, against graphic sexual content in the public sphere, against “microaggressions,” differ only in degree, not in kind, from the Charlie Hebdo murders [Read More...]
January 10, 2015
Into the Weeds (and the Woods) [Radio Readings]
My new, weekly radio program, Fights in Good Faith, premiers today. You’ll be able to stream it live here on Real Life Radio at 5pm Eastern, and you can catch it again on Sunday at 1pm. After it airs, the audio will be available on my show’s page. And, in the meantime, here’s the 30 second [Read More...]
January 9, 2015
7QT: My new radio program, plus codes, calligraphy, and camels
— 1 — I’m really pleased to announce to all of you, that tomorrow, I begin my new weekly radio show with Real Life Radio. My program is an hour long, and is called “Fights In Good Faith” And the header image makes excellent use of one of the shots Sydney Angel took when I did the [Read More...]
January 8, 2015
Throwing Spaghetti at the Modern Dating Wall
I’ve been seeing a fair amount in my feeds (both RSS and social media) about the Perils Of Flirting, and how to navigate them of late. Everything from a married friend mentioning that she gives positive feedback to the people who flirt with her well without noticing her ring, because she wants to encourage positive public [Read More...]
