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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...]
January 7, 2015
Struggling to Offer an Open House
I picked up Robert Farrar Capon’s Bed and Board: Plain Talk About Marriage after reading Melanie’s post on The Wine Dark Sea on “What has Beatrice to do with Bed?” The quotes she assembled were easily enough to get me to order the book for myself. And I suspect they’re a little more generally appealing than the quote [Read More...]
January 6, 2015
Ethical Edge Cases So Sharp You’ll Cut Yourself
I’ve run into three considerations of hypotheticals (two of them in the last week) that all seem to fall into a pattern. First up. there’s this dialogue, related to me by a friend who teaches a second grade catechism class. (They were discussing how the disciples of Christ spread the gospel). Teacher: If you had [Read More...]
January 5, 2015
Shortlist for my 2015 Blogging Book
Today marks the start of the On Christian Doctrine Augustine bookclub, so, if any of you are interested in joining, you’ve actually only got three paragraphs from the preface to read today in order to get all caught up with the rest of us. And one of those three grafs goes like this: To those who [Read More...]
Discussing Continuing Conversion & Prayer with Mark Shea
Last week I joined Mark Shea on his radio show to chat about my conversion, and my forthcoming book on prayer, including what I described as “probably a non-heretical approach to lectio divina,” which was originally inspired by the advice my vocal teacher gave me when I kept messing up Sondheim’s “Good Thing Going.” She’d [Read More...]
January 3, 2015
Books on deck for me in 2015!
It turns out that Goodreads has a nifty feature that plots the publication date of books you read against when you read them. (I think it gets confused by second editions and reissues, though). It was fun to see my year’s (well, half-year’s — I started using Goodreads this summer) reading plotted out in this [Read More...]
January 2, 2015
Seven Quick Remixes: Shakespeare, Star Wars, and Sweeney!
— 1 — I’m sure I’ll write something longer later, but I just want to give you all the heads up that I really enjoyed the Into the Woods movie. It’s like a lot of book-to-movie adaptations, where there are nuances and characterizations that are flattened or telescoped for film, but you still really enjoy seeing the [Read More...]
