{"id":4423,"date":"2012-08-28T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2012-08-28T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:32:34","slug":"im-at-first-things-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/08\/im-at-first-things-today.html","title":{"rendered":"I’m at First Things today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Remember the post last week on careers and hookup culture where I eschewed punny titles in favor of non-verbal rage<\/a>? \u00a0Well, I\u2019ve expanded on some of those ideas and picked up a few new digressions in an essay for\u00a0First Things<\/em>\u2018s On the Square feature. \u00a0My essay is titled \u201cThe Sad Secular Monks<\/a>\u201d and here\u2019s a teaser quote:<\/p>\n

After graduation from college, young adults lose their deadlines. We stop making transitions as a cohort, and are expected to figure out when new stages of life begin on our own. Maturity, we\u2019re told, is a kind of existentialist skill, learning how to define and describe your life. But we could use some better archetypes to draw on. There\u2019s no more weakness in being part of a tradition and a structure than there is in an author drawing on one of Joseph Campbell\u2019s narrative types.<\/p>\n

The high-commitment jobs that drive Rosin\u2019s interviewees to forgo intimacy and that sunder Slaughter and her peers from their families are pernicious because we don\u2019t yet have an expectation of when and how to leave them. There\u2019s no exit strategy, no moment when your life as a turbine ends, and your real life as an adult with responsibilities and vulnerabilities begins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, in a nice bit of synergy, the other On the Square column today is also contrasting conventional careers and monasticism<\/a> (though James R. Rogers is talking about the opportunities each offer to do good work for others, not the structure they give your life.<\/p>\n

Hie thee hence! \u00a0And if you see any interesting reactions\/rebuttals, let me know and I\u2019ll give links at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the post last week on careers and hookup culture where I eschewed punny titles in favor of non-verbal rage? \u00a0Well, I\u2019ve expanded on some of those ideas and picked up a few new digressions in an essay for\u00a0First Things\u2018s On the Square feature. \u00a0My essay is titled \u201cThe Sad Secular Monks\u201d and here\u2019s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[38,10,92,164],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morality-in-practice","tag-feminism-and-the-family","tag-no-war-but-culture-war","tag-other-writing","tag-sex-and-sexuality"],"yoast_head":"\nI'm at First Things today!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Remember the post last week on careers and hookup culture where I eschewed punny titles in favor of non-verbal rage? \u00a0Well, I've expanded on some of those\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/08\/im-at-first-things-today.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I'm at First Things today!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Remember the post last week on careers and hookup culture where I eschewed punny titles in favor of non-verbal rage? \u00a0Well, I've expanded on some of those\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/08\/im-at-first-things-today.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Unequally Yoked\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-08-28T14:32:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Leah Libresco\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Leah Libresco\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/08\/im-at-first-things-today.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/08\/im-at-first-things-today.html\",\"name\":\"I'm at First Things today!\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-08-28T14:32:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-08-28T14:32:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#\/schema\/person\/17ee17592b35b40040d5f5f7ea5ab464\"},\"description\":\"Remember the post last week on careers and hookup culture where I eschewed punny titles in favor of non-verbal rage? \u00a0Well, I've expanded on some of those\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/08\/im-at-first-things-today.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/08\/im-at-first-things-today.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/08\/im-at-first-things-today.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"I’m at First Things today!\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/\",\"name\":\"Unequally Yoked\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#\/schema\/person\/17ee17592b35b40040d5f5f7ea5ab464\",\"name\":\"Leah Libresco\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/20e1e6a3a94c4e7928687804a41d888d?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/20e1e6a3a94c4e7928687804a41d888d?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"caption\":\"Leah Libresco\"},\"description\":\"Leah is the author of Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. 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