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Interviewing Eve Tushnet on Vocations of Love

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a Q&A with Eve Tushnet, author of Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith as part of her ongoing Patheos book club.   I’ll be writing my own review of the book soon, but, in the meantime, enjoy the video above, place an order [Read More...]

Falling in Love with the World through the Eyes of the Beloved

There’s an interesting piece of research going around on what makes relationships grow and deepen (versus fracture and wound).  John Gottman and Robert Levenson (the “Love Lab” researchers) were looking for the smallest kind of observational data that let them (fairly) reliably distinguish good relationships from bad.  Here’s what they found had the most power [Read More...]

Standing Naked Before God [Pope Francis Bookclub]

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus.  Every Monday, I’ll be writing about the next meditation in the book, so you’re welcome to peruse them all and/or read along. When I read this week’s chapter of Pope Francis’s book, I was quickly drawn down a wikipedia rabbithole [Read More...]

7QT: Tallying Rats, Robbing Houses, and Judging Barbers

— 1 — I know we’re all done with Halloween, but I wanted to share these delightful, historical costumes with you all.  I love the “Radio Queen” one (which reminds me of the set direction in Rocky Horror), but my favorite has to be this plane. You could plan to do a less naked one next [Read More...]

Prelude to a (Platonic) Kiss

Eve Tushnet (whose book is now out, and you don’t need to stand on ceremony waiting for me to formally review it next week to buy it for yourself) has a great point to make about the significance of the Kiss of Peace in an essay for On Level Ground: Words are great, don’t get [Read More...]

I’ve Written a Book!

I’m really pleased to announce that this coming May, I’ll be publishing my first book with Ave Maria Press! It’s now available to pre-order on Amazon (in print, kindle will come later) and I’ve built a snazzy website to answer all your questions about the book. (Including questions you may not realize you had like [Read More...]

$615 Raised in our Vaccination/Donation Drive!

I went and got my own flu shot yesterday, and then came home to do the final tally of how many flu shots you, and your children, and your chief whips all got as part of our donations-for-vaccinations drive. In the final analysis, one hundred twenty three of you went out to get your shot or nasal [Read More...]

Being Tutored by the Expectation of Elders [Pope Francis Bookclub]

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus.  Every Monday, I’ll be writing about the next meditation in the book, so you’re welcome to peruse them all and/or read along. When I read this week’s selection from Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus, I was particularly struck [Read More...]

Here’s what I was beeminding this winter/spring

It took a lot of time in coffeeshops to get that line filled out. And it will be my pleasure to show you what all those points added up to tomorrow morning.   P.S. for those who don’t know, Beeminder is a service that makes it easier to do in the short term what you [Read More...]

Happy Halloween from the Sun Summoner!

Just as an FYI, if any of y’all are local to DC, I’ll be one of the five minute lightning talks at tonight’s Hack and Tell meetup, to present on my Accelerometer Controlled Light Gauntlets. I had a lot of fun dressing up as Alina Starkov, the Sun Summoner, from Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha Trilogy (Shadow [Read More...]