Eve Tushnet
Apparently I’ve spent enough time around Protestants to find this stuff really funny. Bless their hearts. Read more
Apparently I’ve spent enough time around Protestants to find this stuff really funny. Bless their hearts. Read more
why not some bath & body stuff from Thistle Farms? Welcome to Magdalene/Thistle Farms. We are glad you’ve come to visit. Founded in 1997 by Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest on Vanderbilt’s campus, Magdalene is a residential program for women who have survived lives of prostitution, trafficking, addiction and life on the streets. Thistle Farms is our social enterprise. more (or skip to the shopping!) Read more
I’m in it, as is Joshua Gonnerman; I can also recommend Tim Otto’s essay, and I’m looking forward to reading the rest! This issue is one of the fruits of the retreat I talked about here. Read more
are here! And he can’t recommend his own because: humility or something, but it is fantastic and you should read it. Read more
I start a series for Acculturated, by reviewing Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage. There’s much more in the book than I had a chance to cover in this piece, but I hope it will inspire more people to read it. Also, this piece obviously picks up some of the themes of my “hedonist, disciple or bourgeois?” post, so if you’re following that discussion you might check it out. Read more
“That’s all lies, you are a very wicked man, and I conclusively expressed your groundlessness to you just now,” the girl student replied disdainfully, as if scorning too many explanations with such a man. “I precisely told you just now that we were all taught by the catechesis: ‘If you honor your father and your parents, you’ll live a long life and be granted wealth.’ It’s in the ten commandments. If God found it necessary to offer a reward for... Read more
via Libresco: Read more
Last night I watched Grabbers, an Irish sf/horror/comedy screened at AFI as part of their annual European Union Film Festival. It’s a fun little confection with a lot of truly sublime shots of the Irish coast. The basic story: A young, uptight lady Garda comes to a remote isle, where she begins a “you’re hideous, I love you” thing with the local ultra-dissipated cop. Meanwhile alien critters are breeding and killing. Their weakness is that they’re allergic to alcohol, so... Read more
me at AmCon: I recently finished Jenell Williams Paris’s book The End of Sexual Identity. The book is a very mixed bag, but one thing which struck me was a brief mention of a dichotomy which I think Paris was borrowing from someone else: the choice between hedonism and discipleship. This framing seems to me to miss something crucial, which politically-minded “social conservatives” often also seem to miss. Because of course there’s a third option, the life of bourgeois stability.... Read more
via Jesse Walker. Read more
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