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2014-06-27T18:25:40-04:00

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Strange Cricket Pairings and Invisible Classes

Last updated on: June 27, 2014 at 6:25 pm By Leah Libresco

— 1 — I can’t believe I have two entertaining cricket links to share this week. (Is this World Cup hipster counterprogramming?). First up. our boys in white and gold are taking on their Anglican counterparts in an ecumenical cricket match: On 12 September a party of Vatican priests, deacons and seminarians will leave Rome for what is arguably the papacy’s most daring incursion on English soil since St Augustine arrived in AD597 – a four-match tour of the country that gave the... Read more

7 Quick Takes

2014-06-26T12:32:09-04:00

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Universal Salvation without Undue Coercion

Last updated on: June 26, 2014 at 12:32 pm By Leah Libresco

Richard Beck has a great post up today explaining how we can believe that, ultimately, everyone will be reconciled to God and join him in Heaven without casting God as the Great Brainwasher in the Sky, merrily crushing our ability to resist. I’m excerpting the post below, but I recommend reading the whole thing. For a lot of Christians salvation is basically the process of posing an ultimatum to the human will: Choose Christ and live or deny Christ and go... Read more

Parsing Catholicism

soteriology

2014-06-25T12:39:58-04:00

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Anti-Homeless Laws with Teeth

Last updated on: June 25, 2014 at 12:39 pm By Leah Libresco

China has added a new, less subtle trick to the annals of anti-homeless architecture. Park benches in Yantai Park in Shangdong province now work according to coin operated timers. Stop feeding the meter, and little iron spikes pop out to prick the unwary sitter. According to the article: Park bosses got the idea from an art installation in Germany where sculptor Fabian Brunsing created a similar bench as a protest against the commercialisation of modern life. “He thought he was exaggerating.... Read more

Morality in Practice

2014-06-24T14:14:11-04:00

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Selling Beauty Short

Last updated on: June 24, 2014 at 2:14 pm By Leah Libresco

Nathan Biberdorf would like us all to stop affirming each other by asserting that everyone is beautiful. It’s doing more harm than good. There are plenty of people that are not physically appealing to look at, the primary and most widely used meaning of the word “beautiful”. So why do we use the word as a catch-all for any sort of positive attribute? Nobody says, “Everybody is a good listener.” Nobody says, “Everyone is athletic to somebody.” Nobody says, “You are an... Read more

Morality in Practice

sex and sexuality

2014-06-23T11:36:45-04:00

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Discern the Right Thing [Pope Francis Bookclub]

Last updated on: June 23, 2014 at 11:36 am By Leah Libresco

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus. Every Monday, I’ll be writing about the next meditation in the book, so you’re welcome to peruse them all and/or read along. In this week’s chapter, Pope Francis uses the falling away of the church at Ephesus as an admonitory example for our own, personal attempts to follow Christ. The Ephesian church didn’t fall into heresy or disappear altogether, but, instead, it “abandoned the love... Read more

Spiritual Practice

Pope Francis bookclub

2014-06-22T12:29:15-04:00

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Call for Guest Posts Next Week!

Last updated on: June 22, 2014 at 12:29 pm By Leah Libresco

I’m soon to be Ireland bound, and I can’t guarantee I’ll be posting from vacation. Perhaps I could post a picture of some kind of beautiful vista (we’re visiting the Cliffs of Moher — the stand-ins for both Voldemort’s Horcrux caves and, more importantly, The Cliffs of Insanity from The Princess Bride) along with a good quote from whatever Irish writers I’m reading, but I’d enjoy the chance to turn over the blog to some of my frequent commenters. Please pitch... Read more

Housekeeping

2014-06-20T12:00:04-04:00

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Suspicious Hermits, Gruesome Creativity, and Just Enough E Coli

Last updated on: June 20, 2014 at 12:00 pm By Leah Libresco

— 1 — There’s a bit of luck in my starting this week’s quick takes late, because it meant I had time to spot this article from Marginal Revolution about a Swiss town trying to hire a hermit. Naturally, I was reminded of this exchange from Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia: LADY CROOM: You surely do not supply an hermitage without a hermit? NOAKES: Indeed, madam — LADY CROOM: Come, come, Mr Noakes. If I am promised a fountain I expect it to... Read more

7 Quick Takes

2014-06-19T14:49:33-04:00

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Trigger Warnings and Coal Mine Canaries

Last updated on: June 19, 2014 at 2:49 pm By Leah Libresco

In discussion of trigger warnings (particularly when requested by college students), I’ve seen a fair amount of think pieces suggest that this is more evidence that young’uns have gone soft. It’s not quite “When I was your age, I walked uphill both ways, five miles, through a sea of graphically dismembered bodies marked with racial slurs, and it made me stronger!” but there’s a certain family resemblance. There just seems to be a suspicion that attaches itself to people complaining that... Read more

Debate Tactics

2014-06-18T18:44:48-04:00

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False Friends and Tone Policing

Last updated on: June 18, 2014 at 6:44 pm By Leah Libresco

When I went on a two-week exchange trip to China, it was clear the cultural briefing was informed by whatever mistakes or misunderstandings had occurred on previous trips, recorded and relayed to us so that we wouldn’t think, for example, that our host siblings were hitting on us if they took our hands while we were walking. But the most memorable warning had to do with Mandarin filler words. While English speakers cover gaps with “uh” “um” “ah” and so... Read more

Debate Tactics

2014-06-17T14:53:30-04:00

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Who Watches the Executioners?

Last updated on: June 17, 2014 at 2:53 pm By Leah Libresco

Yesterday, a federal judge rejected Marcus Wellons’s plea for a stay of execution. If no other intervention is forthcoming, Wellons will be executed this evening. Wellons’s argued that his death should be postponed until the state of Georgia was forced to disclose exactly which drugs they would be using to kill him. After the botched execution earlier this year in Ohio, courts have had to consider whether experimental executions constitute cruel and unusual punishment — a sentence worse than the death that finally... Read more

Morality in Practice

(in)justice

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