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March 2014

March 10, 2014

What do we choose instead of Light? [Pope Francis Bookclub]

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...

March 06, 2014

Auditing “Addictions” During Lent

Paul Graham, the founder of YCombinator (a start up incubator) has an essay that makes...

March 03, 2014

If Only Angels Would Prevail: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd

The Pope Francis bookclub post will run on Wednesday, since the chapter seemed apropos for...

February 2014

February 08, 2014

Forgiving is Not Endorsing

Before he passed away, Pope John Paul II entrusted a number of his personal letters...

February 05, 2014

Getting Sex Ed from Literature

Just to follow on from yesterday's AmCon post about the importance of the liberal arts (and...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Starving for Communal Spaces and Communion

Over at AmCon today, I've got a piece up "Starving for Communal Spaces" and here's how...

January 27, 2014

Apathy Can Feel Like Energy from the Inside [Pope Francis Bookclub]

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...

January 25, 2014

Here’s your job. Don’t get too comfortable.

I really enjoyed the article in Jacobin Magazine on the hidden (and harmful) assumption of the...

January 22, 2014

For Now We Kill As Through A Glass, Darkly

Meanwhile. over at AmCon, I have a piece on the botched execution in Ohio, where...

January 21, 2014

A Supersubstantial Joy [Pope Francis Bookclub]

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...

January 20, 2014

Agape Breaks Down Prison Walls

From the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's sermon on loving your enemies: There’s another reason...

January 12, 2014

Drawing from a deck of Cards Against Humanity

This New Year's, I didn't end up making any big resolutions, but I did wind...

January 09, 2014

Don’t Rely on the State to Legitimize your Faith

Germany's state-run schools all include religious education. In most districts, students can pick from Catholic,...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

Taking the Measure of Friendship

My family enjoyed our annual viewing of The Muppet Christmas Carol (still the best, still the...

December 16, 2013

Pope Francis and the Mendicant Christ

Pope Francis gave an interview to La Stampa, and, all caveats about translation aside, these two...

December 11, 2013

Spare a penny for the poor of patience, guv?

A few weeks ago, there was an interesting post on LessWrong about the unspoken assumptions...

December 08, 2013

Iceland Wept

This week, police in Iceland shot a suspect who was shooting at them. This is...

December 04, 2013

Must Pity be Hierarchical?

In Laura Miller's quasi-memoir The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia, she talks about...

December 03, 2013

Gratitude is to Thanksgiving as Penance is to…

Before Thanksgiving, I visited my alma mater for the Harvard-Yale game, and got to participate...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

The Selfishness of Playing to Your Strengths

Calah Alexander has a post up about her frustrations with Disney storylines, where plot can...

November 09, 2013

Choose Your Own Genre Adventure

Christian H of The Thinking Ground, and the inspiration for the question about genres in...

October 2013

October 01, 2013

Warfare “as obscene as cancer”

During the debate over the proper response to Syria's use of chemical weapons, I kept...

September 2013

September 09, 2013

Servant of Two Masters

If I had a car, I suppose I could have a bumpersticker that read "My...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

“I Must Not Tell Lies”

Over at Strange Notions, I joined Deacon Jim Russell (a Catholic radio speaker)and James Croft (who blogs...

August 05, 2013

Legal Shortcuts So Sharp You’ll Cut Yourself

Sorry for the absence, readers! We've been short-staffed due to plague at work. This week...

July 2013

July 03, 2013

Asking Computers What Our Ethics Are

In an essay on drone policy, Cyborgology is skeptical of our intuitive approach to ethics...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

Learning by Perturbation

Last week, I wrote two blog posts about the danger of breaking promises and the...

June 13, 2013

A Dicey Way Out of Dilemmas

In response to yesterday's post on breaking promises, KristeninDallas made an alternate suggestion: I'm not...

June 12, 2013

A terrible consequence of consequentialism

A few weeks ago, in The New York Times Magazine, the Ethicist column gave some terribly...

June 08, 2013

Sex Ed is Obviously Meant to Teach…

Last Friday, I was on Sheila Liaugminas's Relevant Radio show ("A Closer Look") with a...