Unfortunately, I won’t have time to do an appropriate post for Unequally Yoked today, but I thought I’d mention two other debates I’m embroiled in: I’ve written a piece for the Huffington Post titled “Yale Daily News Wrong to Condemn Outrage in Response to Sexism.” The whole controversy started when frat pledges marched around campus chanting “No means YES! Yes means ANAL!” Here’s a preview of my take: The YDN editorial board puts the onus of defusing the controversy on... Read more
I’m a huge proponent of Dan Savage’s It Gets Better project, but Anglican Bishop Gene Robinson‘s upload really rubbed me the wrong way. I’m holding my comments til after the video, so watch it before you scroll down so I don’t bias your reaction further. Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird that Bishop Robinson is centering his message on “God loves you as you are, so you don’t need to change?” It makes sense to say that... Read more
–1– Hands down, my favorite post in religious blogging this week was Julian Sanchez’s post on the problem of an omnipotent God: Ned Resnikoff ponders the question. It seems to me that the answer is clearly “no,” but for a reason Ned doesn’t actually offer: It would require a good deal less than omnipotence to make a human perceptual system experience any demonstration of omnipotence you might care to suggest. So we might imagine God zipping you back to the... Read more
This is the 100th post since I started blogging here in the middle of June, so I’m giving a quick reflection on how this has been going for me, and I’d really appreciate any feedback from readers, lurkers or otherwise. I started blogging about religion as a way to have arguments about religion with people who are not my boyfriend, since I didn’t think it was fair to him or Catholicism to have him be my only source for knowledge... Read more
Still working on a paper, still making short, standalone posts. Gevalt. This week, the New York Times Magazine supplement was entirely about food, and, although as a college student with a meal plan I am singularly uninterested in cooking, one of the articles caught my eye. Food writer Frank Bruni tries to understand the success of the Basil Pizza and Wine Bar in a Hasidic neighborhood of New York City. Bruni marvels at the Basil’s ability to attract Hasids, West Indian immigrant,... Read more
Still trying to finish a paper, so again with the potpourri posts I’ve never heard a song by the band Insane Clown Posse, and, until yesterday, all I knew of them was that people who opened for them at concerts tended to be assaulted by their thuggish fans and that the duo’s promotion of Faygo soda was discouraged by the owner of the brand. And then, I found out they were secret Christians. According to an interview in the Guardian, the... Read more
I’m still in the middle of a series of posts on sin and immorality (and planning to respond to Peter Somerville’s questions about my post on drone strikes) but, unfortunately, I have a paper and a song to finish before class tomorrow, so I’ll have to wait a little on those posts. In the meantime, I’d love to know if any Christians (or particularly well-informed atheists) can explain something that perplexed me during the readings at Mass today. Rather than... Read more
This post is one in a series on sin and immortality. You can read the entire series of linked posts here. During the Vietnam war, the Army was responsible for training new draftees for combat. Recruits were trained to aim their guns by practicing with bulls-eye shaped targets. Although the men met the standards for marksmanship in training, when they went abroad, only about 20 percent fired their guns in combat, even when they were under fire. Although the men... Read more
–1– Sorry for the delay in keeping up with my posts on sin and human nature. It’s been a crazy week at school (I was busy running logistics for a debate on gay marriage between Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage and Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry). You can check out the Yale Daily News‘s coverage of the debate here. I’ll be making up for the lost time by writing posts in the series over the weekend.... Read more
The series on immorality is still ongoing, and the next post will go up this evening. But now for something completely different… Last night, the pop juggernaut/variety show/karaoke hour that is the TV show Glee decided get religion. If you don’t follow the show, the title of the episode “Grilled Cheesus” may give you a hint about the taste level of the show. In brief, one of the students makes a grilled cheese sandwich that appears to be imprinted with the face of... Read more
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