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January 2017

January 02, 2017

Books on deck for me for 2017

Getting married meant I read a lot fewer books this year than usual. According to...

December 2016

December 02, 2016

My Favorite Books of 2016

These are my favorite books I read for the first time in 2016 (here's last...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

The Boring, Quiet Rituals That Sustain Us Spiritually

When I worked as an instructor at the Center for Applied Rationality, a lot of...

July 2016

July 25, 2016

Starving Laypeople of Devotion in Church

I just wrapped up (and really enjoyed) Eamon Duffy's The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Aunt Alberta And Being Right (but the boring way)

I've been rereading the Narnia series (in publication order) with a group of friends, and...

June 01, 2016

Christian Ethics: If you understand, I’m explaining wrong…

I've gone on from borrowing books from my fiancé to borrowing books from my fiancé's family,...

May 2016

May 04, 2016

Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” And The Fertility Of Forgiveness

I'm at First Things, reviewing Beyoncé's visual album "Lemonade," which does a remarkable job telling a...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

Fighting Weaponized Acedia

Commonweal has my double review of Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Engagement, A Bibliography

On Easter Sunday, my boyfriend proposed to me at Belvedere Castle in Central Park. And...

March 04, 2016

Oy gevalt, here’s some spiritual reading

I'm tuckered out from liveblogging last night's debate for work, so no quick takes this...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Unfiltered isn’t the Same as Authentic

Given my love of the anti-entropic call to arms of Diane Duane's So You Want to...

January 01, 2016

Books on deck for me in 2016

According to my Goodreads account, I read 260 books this past year (that comprised a...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Lewis, Chesterton, and Card on Our Tolerance for Mystery

I had the pleasure of speaking at Doxacon (a scifi/fantasy convention for theology nerds) in...

December 11, 2015

My Favorite Books of 2015

I've put together a list of my favorite books I read for the first time...

September 2015

September 09, 2015

The Beguine Model for the Benedict Option

After reading Laura Swan's The Wisdom of the Beguines, I'm tempted to tell Rod...

August 2015

August 22, 2015

Eve Tushnet’s Great New Novel On Forgiveness And Addiction

Eve Tushnet, the author of Gay and Catholic, just released her second book! Amends is a...

August 10, 2015

Seeing the World Through Tammet’s Joy

Sometimes, when I have a book out from the library, I wind up buying it,...

July 2015

July 13, 2015

Read Like Me, Pray (Badly) Like Peter

Turing test results continue tomorrow, and, in the meantime, I've got links if you want...

June 2015

June 05, 2015

What I Read On My Book Tour

Sorry for the low posting volume, folks -- I've spent the last two weeks in...

April 2015

April 06, 2015

Help me pack books for my trip Down Under!

Wednesday afternoon, I'm getting on a plane for New Zealand. I'll be speaking at the...

March 2015

March 29, 2015

Learning Fellowship from Mary

Before I picked up Denise Bossert's Gifts of the Visitation: Nine Spiritual Encounters with Mary and...

March 18, 2015

Learning Math Adds Up to Good Citizenship

I've got a book review of David Smith's If: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at...

March 14, 2015

Terry Pratchett’s Morals and Magic [Radio Readings]

You can listen to “Fights in Good Faith,” my weekly radio program, streaming today at 5pm ET and...

March 12, 2015

Learning about Sainthood from Terry Pratchett #LittleAngelsReadUp

Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, passed away today. I'm encouraging other fans to...

March 10, 2015

The Last 5 Years’s Primer on Loving Badly [Guest Post]

Monique Ocampo recently joined the Patheos Catholic channel and is also a big fan of The...

March 07, 2015

Reaching Out through Retold Stories [Radio Readings]

You can listen to “Fights in Good Faith,” my weekly radio program, streaming today at 5pm ET and...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

The Story of Shmuel and Tailoring Support [Guest Post]

This is a guest post by Ellery Weil on The Last 5 Years. I've included a...

February 19, 2015

Asking a Lover for Too-Limited Support

When I hosted a party to watch The Last 5 Years, one of my guests tried...

February 17, 2015

No Villains, Just Inept Lovers in The Last 5 Years

The Last 5 Years tells the story of Jamie and Cathy's relationship, from the moment...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

When has a book in one field helped you in a seemingly unrelated one?

I've just finished Scott Aaronson's Quantum Computing Since Democritus this week (making a list of...