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2013-11-11T12:10:49-05:00

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Mormons, Genre Fiction, and (No) Full Frontal Snogging

Last updated on: November 11, 2013 at 12:10 pm By Leah Libresco

In Mark Oppenheimer’s most recent column in the New York Times, he speaks to a number of Mormon authors to try to figure out why so many of them write genre (F/SF) or young adult fiction. One of the first hypotheses is that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints prefer to eschew the darker themes of literary fiction: “When I was an English major, then getting a master’s, most of the literary fiction I read... Read more

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2013-11-09T13:35:58-05:00

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Choose Your Own Genre Adventure

Last updated on: November 9, 2013 at 1:35 pm By Leah Libresco

Christian H of The Thinking Ground, and the inspiration for the question about genres in this year’s Turing Test, has put together an online quiz to figure out “which genre would give you the most opportunities to express your worldview and explore the questions that you find most interesting.” Here’s how he describes it: In general, I tried to make questions about the kind of beliefs you have–what the beliefs are about, how you think about them–more than what your... Read more

Morality in Practice

2013-11-12T11:45:11-05:00

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7 Quick Takes (11/8/13)

Last updated on: November 12, 2013 at 11:45 am By Leah Libresco

— 1 — This week, I got to make a donation to Against Malaria in honor of the Unequally Yoked readership. Back when I got my flu shot, I asked any of you who were contributing to herd immunity to sign the flu shot honor roll, and I’d donate $5 per immunized reader, up to $100. You guys made quota, and I’m delighted to have made the donation today. And, if you didn’t sign up in round one, but... Read more

7 Quick Takes

2013-11-07T14:13:23-05:00

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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s… Evangelism?

Last updated on: November 7, 2013 at 2:13 pm By Leah Libresco

Marvel Comics is introducing a new superheroine, Kamala Khan, who is a Muslim, and the New York Times teased out an interesting nuance of how the writers plan to cover her religion. The creative team is braced for all possible reactions. “I do expect some negativity,” Ms. Amanat said, “not only from people who are anti-Muslim, but people who are Muslim and might want the character portrayed in a particular light.” But “this is not evangelism,” Ms. Wilson said. “It was... Read more

Apologetics

2013-11-06T16:04:31-05:00

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Safe Zones for Secular Students

Last updated on: November 6, 2013 at 4:04 pm By Leah Libresco

My friend Jesse Galef, the communications director at the Secular Students Alliance, sat down with me to do a Q&A about a new project they unveiled: the Secular Safe Zone. The program recruits and trains teachers, students, and other allies to establish clear safe points for non-religious students to have conversations and ask questions. Here’s the discussion we had: Jesse, can you tell me and the readers a bit about why the Secular Students Alliance has started the... Read more

Atheism

2013-11-04T09:34:10-05:00

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In Which I Still Struggle With Pelagianism

Last updated on: November 4, 2013 at 9:34 am By Leah Libresco

I think one of the worst near occasions for sin for me comes whenever I’m nearing the end of my turn in the confessional. I’ve disclosed my sins (some of them easily, some of them blurted out quickly, as though that lessens their gravity) and then the priest assigns me penance. Unfortunately, my kneejerk reaction is usually, “That’s it?!?” When a priest assigns me only a few prayer, or a spot of silent meditation, I feel like I’m getting away... Read more

Parsing Catholicism

2013-12-30T14:50:24-05:00

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A Saint for this Season

Last updated on: December 30, 2013 at 2:50 pm By Leah Libresco

Yesterday, I had a lot of trouble making it to church for the Feast of All Saints. All Saint’s Day is a Holy Day of Obligation for Catholics, and it’s the feast of all those in the Church Triumphant — all the saints, recognized on earth through canonization and those unknown to us, but sharing in the beatific vision. Unfortunately, as I’m in a more rural area teaching at a work event, we had to deal with poorly-marked, poorly-lit signs,... Read more

Parsing Catholicism

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2013-11-01T00:53:34-04:00

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7 Quick Takes (11/1/13)

Last updated on: November 1, 2013 at 12:53 am By Leah Libresco

Happy Feast of All Saints! — 1 — This week’s quick takes theme is transposition, and there are few people as in love with stories and patterns as Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and his recent work on analogy: Surfaces and Essences. In a recent interview with The Atlantic, he talked about what he sees as the heart of human intelligence: Cognition is recognition,” he likes to say. He describes “seeing as” as... Read more

7 Quick Takes

2013-10-31T09:43:37-04:00

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Costumes, Constraint, and Chapel Veils

Last updated on: October 31, 2013 at 9:43 am By Leah Libresco

In my high school theatre productions, our director encouraged us to start working on assembling costumes early. Especially shoes. Once you had something of your character’s, you could start using it to feel less like yourself, and stop doing things by rote. If you had nothing else, he said, you could put a pebble in your shoe so you were a little less comfortable in your normal stance. I’m on a plane all day, so, since I ended up without the... Read more

Parsing Catholicism

from the pews

2013-10-29T17:01:23-04:00

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The Ones Who Walk Away from Dresediel Lex

Last updated on: October 29, 2013 at 5:01 pm By Leah Libresco

Max Gladstone’s Two Serpents Rise, is his second book in the Craft sequence and falls chronologically before his first book, Three Parts Dead. His first novel took place in Alt Coulomb, a city where at least one god is alive and when and living on the faith of his worshippers. The new novel, set in Dresediel Lex, is in a city where the gods have been replaced by something a good deal more industrial. Before the Dresediel Lex’s gods had their place usurped,... Read more

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