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2013-04-18T16:37:55-04:00

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Doing the Math on ‘Our’

Last updated on: April 18, 2013 at 4:37 pm By Leah Libresco

Melanie Bettinelli has been running a series of guest posts on the Credo for the Year of Faith. Each week, a Catholic writer writes an essay on one phrase in the Nicene Creed. Today, I’m up discussing “For Our Sake.” I’ve excepted the first few paragraphs below, but you can read the whole thing at Melanie’s blog: The our in the Creed is a terrible temptation to me. When people talk about the sacrificial love of Christ, I have a... Read more

Parsing Catholicism

2013-04-16T19:01:44-04:00

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Oh Stewardess? There’s a Baby in my Plane!

Last updated on: April 16, 2013 at 7:01 pm By Leah Libresco

In The New York Times’s Metropolitan Diary feature, one reader shares the following story: While waiting on the business class boarding line at J.F.K., I spied parents with their 3-month-old daughter. This American Airlines flight to Barbados was going to be long, and the thought of a crying baby near me in business class did not make me smile. What did make me smile was watching her mom, after we were all seated comfortably, distribute little goody bags filled with Advil,... Read more

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feminism and the family

2013-04-15T13:55:00-04:00

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Four Tips for Public Speaking

Last updated on: April 15, 2013 at 1:55 pm By Leah Libresco

During a call for post topics, I signed up to write a post on speaking tips for LessWrong, which is up today. I thought it might be fun to cross-post here. Most of it is tailored to talking, but it can be applicable to writing anything from comments to posts. I’ve done a fair amount of debate and murderboarding (helping people prepare for interviews) so these are the four tips that help the people I’ve talked to have the most... Read more

Debate Tactics

2013-04-13T12:52:45-04:00

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Unequally Yoked Again

Last updated on: April 13, 2013 at 12:52 pm By Leah Libresco

I don’t plan to discuss this boyfriend here anymore than I did the last one, but the blog title is accurate again. Two-person bookclubs ahoy! Read more

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2013-04-12T11:35:48-04:00

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It’s Hard to Make Up Marriage

Last updated on: April 12, 2013 at 11:35 am By Leah Libresco

This month, Libby Anne and Dan Finke are asking bloggers to comment on the purpose of marriage as part of their Forward Thinking linkup. And, in order to try to speak clearly, I’d like to riff off of a recent Modern Love column in the Times, where the unmarried author shared his experience officiating a friend’s wedding. Because it was a secular wedding, the officiant and his friends had a lot of flexibility with the how of the ceremony, but the author... Read more

Marriage

ritual

2013-04-10T12:19:53-04:00

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Can We Play Not-Nicely Better, Please?

Last updated on: April 10, 2013 at 12:19 pm By Leah Libresco

And speaking of sparing feelings without pulling punches, there’s been a donnybrook going between Tom McDonald (Catholic) and Hemant Mehta (atheist) and JT Eberhard waded in yesterday. I’m not planning to tag in exactly, but I would like to suggest that they have a slightly different fight. Both Tom’s original post mocking atheism and Hemant and JT’s rejoinder seemed pitched particularly to their own sides, so, even though the posts got pretty heated, it has kind of the effect of a flurry of haymakers that... Read more

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Debate Tactics

2013-04-09T18:07:09-04:00

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Am I enabling blasphemy?

Last updated on: April 9, 2013 at 6:07 pm By Leah Libresco

While the commenting system changes over, some disputes in the content of the comments stay the same. And there was a recent tete-a-tete I’d think needs a post worth of response. In Cam’s reply/objection to Scott’s essay on suffering and optimal search strategies, Cam went through a couple of the usual objections to theodicy and then exclaimed: Why are there multiple types of suffering? Is your deity a sadistic fuckhead? Let’s accept all of the arguments offered by the author. This entire... Read more

Debate Tactics

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problem(s) of evil

2013-04-08T19:53:08-04:00

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Comments will be wonky for a little while

Last updated on: April 8, 2013 at 7:53 pm By Leah Libresco

It’s going Patheos-wide, so comments may unexpectedly appear and reappear over the next 24 hours. Post bug reports, complaints, suggestions here, and I will try to pass them along. Thanks for your patience team! UPDATE: We are apparently in the upper percentiles of chatty Cathy Patheos blogs, so the transition for Unequally Yoked is being pushed to the weekend. Read more

Housekeeping

2013-04-09T13:46:58-04:00

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“For he is like a refiner’s fire!”

Last updated on: April 9, 2013 at 1:46 pm By Leah Libresco

Friend of the blog Scott Hebert has written an article for Patheos titled “Metaphysical Annealing: Empirical Science, Suffering, and God.” Let this be the first of many theological essays that talk about local vs global optima as a way to talk about theodicy. I’ve skipped some of Scott’s background/analogy building in my choice of blockquote, because I think the terms may already be recognizable to readers of the blog, but do pop over to see the whole thing. What is our search mechanism? Our... Read more

Parsing Catholicism

2013-04-06T18:17:41-04:00

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7 Quick Takes (4/5/13)

Last updated on: April 6, 2013 at 6:17 pm By Leah Libresco

— 1 — While we’ve been discussing ways to tweak the comment sections chez moi, regular commenter Gilbert has put together a hacky fix to make comments a little easier to read (new comments are highlighted, comments are collapsible, etc). You can read how to install it yourself at his blog. — 2 — Via TYWKIWDBI, a video on how marbles are made. (The second method is the one I learned in college!) — 3 — This is the best solution... Read more

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