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May 2015
May 30, 2015
Benedict Option Conclusion: Places in the Heart
This is the final part of my series on Leah Libresco's discussion group on "The...
May 27, 2015
Benedict Option, Part Three: It Takes a Hyattsvillage
One of the neat things about Libresco's "Benedict Option" gathering (for what this actually was,...
May 24, 2015
The Benedict Option, Part Two: This Time It’s Personal
Part one aka What the heck is this thing? is here. At Leah's, we discussed...
May 24, 2015
The Benedict Option, Part One: Build a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul
On Friday night I went over to Libresco's to talk about "the Benedict Option" with...
May 14, 2015
Time Considered As a Helix of Grimy Fingernail Clippings: Samuel R. Delany’s Weirdly Prescient “Driftglass”
I just finished reading a collection of Samuel R. Delany's short stories and novellas from...
May 07, 2015
“Friendship with a Future Tense”: I review Wesley Hill’s great new book
for AmCon: Most of the art and literature of friendship is elegiac. From Montaigne to...
April 2015
April 15, 2015
Two Links About Wesley Hill’s Fabulous New Book “Spiritual Friendship”
Oh so much more on this book from me coming soon! First, Wes is interviewed...
April 14, 2015
“Choose to Stay” (Or, Virtute the Cat Contemplates Her City)
One reason I love the Weakerthans is that their songs are set in their hometown....
April 14, 2015
“Downwardly Mobile for Jesus”: Al-Jazeera America
from 2014, but well worth your time now: ...For people like Loftus, it’s not coffee...
March 2015
March 05, 2015
“Welcome to Gibtown, The Last ‘Freakshow’ Town in America”: The Guardian
on the social construction and theology of disability, sort of: For those who didn’t quite...
March 03, 2015
“Should I Attend the Wedding of a Gay Friend or Family Member?”: Now open to non-subscribers
at Christianity Today: When I became a Christian, most of my friends and family were...
March 02, 2015
“Should I Attend the Wedding of a Gay Friend of Family Member?”: I’m in the current Christianity Today
subscribers-only for now. I'm one of four respondents (the others are Peter Ould, Lisa Severine...
February 2015
February 23, 2015
“Marilynne Robinson Returns to Gilead”: I review “Lila”
at AmCon--I think this piece turned out well: Ten years ago Marilynne Robinson began telling...
February 21, 2015
“Detroit’s ‘Walking Man’ Walks On”: Vice
reports: ...That's how it's been for a decade for James Robertson, Detroit's Walking Man. Twenty...
December 2014
December 05, 2014
Jason Byassee on Christians and “Christian”
This is the part that really irks me the most on eschewing “Christian.” It’s as...
November 2014
November 28, 2014
Who Counts as Family? A Rich Connecticut Neighborhood* Tests the Boundaries
via Ratty, and super-relevant to conversations here about friendship as kinship: A neighborhood kerfuffle on...
November 23, 2014
The Mayor-for-Life, At Least
Marion Barry, RIP. Look, Barry started out as a civil-rights organizer throwing block parties in...
November 03, 2014
“A Few Thoughts on Celibacy and Socioeconomic Status”: A Queer Calling
opens up a really important area of the conversation: A few weeks ago, I mentioned...
September 2014
September 04, 2014
Is “Vocational Discernment” Just a Fancy Term for Navel-Gazing?
A Gay and Catholic extra post! For a lot of people I think the language...
August 2014
August 20, 2014
A Mundane Masquerade: Peter de Vries, “The Tents of Wickedness”
This is a little 1949 satire--dedicated "To James and Helen Thurber," if you want to...
July 2014
July 31, 2014
“Three Models for Intentional Communities of Friends”: Leah Libresco
blogs: To close out this week’s series on friendship, I’d like to recommend three articles...
July 18, 2014
“The Boy Is the Father of Whatever”: I Review Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood”
at AmCon: About an hour and a half into Richard Linklater’s memorable new film, my...
July 08, 2014
Musical Rosary #14–Assumption
The two things I focus on with this mystery are the union of body and...
July 01, 2014
I Used to Live Here: Old Interview w/John Darnielle About “The Life of the World to Come”
w/various things about his religion, but this was the part which struck me the most:...
June 2014
June 13, 2014
And All at Once I Had to Face the Big Light: Some movie reviews
Rachel Getting Married: The story of a woman coming out of rehab just in time...
April 2014
April 27, 2014
Transported in Time: Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney
So I'm in Sydney, and it's amazing. Beautiful weather (and what I'm gonna call sublime...
March 2014
March 23, 2014
“No, Where Are You
Really
From?”: Dinaw Mengestu’s Novel of Ethiopians in America
Dinaw Mengestu's 2010 How to Read the Air tells two parallel stories: In alternating chapters,...
February 2014
February 07, 2014
“Dyscommunication”: I review “Tribes” at the Studio Theatre
for AmCon: If you couldn’t understand what your family was saying, would you understand them...
February 04, 2014
Seth Mnookin on Relapse and the Ghost World
One truism of addiction science is that long-term abuse rewires your brain and changes its...
February 04, 2014
“Making God’s House Into a Home: An Interview w/Spiritual Friendship’s Wesley Hill”
woot! ...I wrote that book when I was in my mid-twenties. Like a lot of...
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