What do I need to fix about my shiny new Patheos blog? I am going to try to figure out how to turn the commenting option off completely. I love you guys and everyone who has tried to comment so far has been great (I’ve been seeing them and writing commenters personal emails explaining why they’re not being approved) but I dread the day I post about something personal or controversial and awaken to Libresco-esque comment counts. I lack the... Read more
An addition to the end of my post about Brave: “Surrender” is one way of conceiving of Christian faith and practice; it’s a metaphor. It’s probably the metaphor which speaks most deeply to me. But there are lots of other possible metaphors out there: discovery, spiritual warfare, and liberation, for example. If one metaphor is pushed to the exclusion of all the others, you can end up with serious misunderstandings of the faith. Overemphasizing submission to God can leave people... Read more
I have a review of The Next Right Thing in the current Weekly Standard. Review is subscribers-only for now. I liked the book a lot (you can read more about it here) and I’m pretty pleased with the review as well. Read more
Muppet outtakes, ca. 1979. Miss Piggy is, as always, too good for him. Read more
about unwed fathers. This is my opportunity to tell you guys that 2008’s Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage, by Edin and Maria Kefalas, is probably the best book I’ve read on contemporary marriage and family life. It’s been incredibly illuminating for my work at the pregnancy center. It’s also very moving, and you can really tell that Edin and Kefalas lived with the women they write about, shared the same neighborhoods and built relationships... Read more
since the theme of Brave, which I saw last night, isn’t actually bravery at all. The Good: It’s so pretty! It’s a gloriously pretty movie, and the grisaille scene where the girl and her horse wander through a fog-hung, thorn-infested woods was chillingly beautiful. The visual humor is also adorable, and visual language is used to convey character really well during the shapeshifting parts. I also loved the actual theme, which was the mother-daughter bond and its stresses. I haven’t... Read more
then it’s the Bomb that will bring us together. Read more
possibly via Jesse Walker? Anyway, they make dandelion wine! Sort of. Read more
From America magazine: A father’s forgiveness of the drunk driver who killed his son; and what happened after that. Read more
Yes, man is a pliable animal–he must be so defined–a being who gets accustomed to everything! Read more
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