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2015-10-30T08:33:54-04:00

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7QT: Magic, Secrets, and Bureaucracy

Last updated on: October 30, 2015 at 8:33 am By Leah Libresco

— 1 — I already love Ikea, source of all my bookshelves, but I particularly like their new line of plush toys, all designed to look like actual kids’ drawings. There are more examples, all delightful, at this link. — 2 — Another example of glorious inventiveness: the Mahler Hammer. I found this via Hello Tailor’s tumblr, where there are many more gifs of the Mahler Hammer being deployed and this explanation: It’s even more awesome if you know the... Read more

7 Quick Takes

2015-10-28T14:49:12-04:00

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The People I Don’t Learn to Love

Last updated on: October 28, 2015 at 2:49 pm By Leah Libresco

After reading my essay on “Both/And Philanthropy,” one of my friends told me that there was something I was leaving out of my hybrid approach. Here’s how I said that I balance attentiveness to material and spiritual goods: And when it comes to the fundamental divide between Beer and MacAskill, for my own part, I like to hybridize their global vs local approaches. When I have the opportunity to do something for someone close to me (e.g. defraying a friend-of-a-friend’s... Read more

Morality in Practice

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2015-10-27T10:07:45-04:00

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Offering Magpie Prayers to God at First Things

Last updated on: October 27, 2015 at 10:07 am By Leah Libresco

When Arriving at Amen, my book on learning to pray, came out, I gave a talk on some of the unexpected ways I found to reach out to God (Fermat’s Little Theorem, people mummified in honey, etc). First Things has just made the video available, if you’d like to check it out! [The video isn’t embeddable, but if you click, it will open in a new tab] And this seems like a good time to share one of the recent reader... Read more

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2015-10-26T10:31:02-04:00

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Building a Both/And Philanthropy

Last updated on: October 26, 2015 at 10:31 am By Leah Libresco

Over at Fare Forward, I’m doing a paired review of Jeremy Beer’s The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity and Will MacAskill’s Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference and talking about how to balance the spiritual and material goals of charity. Reading the two books side by side, it’s clear MacAskill wouldn’t dispute some of the charges that Beer lays to his account. Beer endorses local charities, which can best further what he sees as... Read more

Morality in Practice

2015-10-23T00:52:23-04:00

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7QT: Drunk Historians, Silly Bodybuilders, Clever Proofs

Last updated on: October 23, 2015 at 12:52 am By Leah Libresco

— 1 — I’ve usually avoided Drunk History (a show where heavily in their cups historians summarize a notable life or event, and then have their garbled retellings reenacted by actors) because I saw an episode that involved vomiting, which I’d prefer not to see. But this episode about Harriet Tubman’s in the Civil War (about which I knew nothing, and in which she’s played by Octavia Spencer) is excellent (and involves no sickness at all, no promises if you... Read more

7 Quick Takes

2015-10-22T12:25:06-04:00

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How To Offer Community Without Communion

Last updated on: October 22, 2015 at 12:25 pm By Leah Libresco

I’m over at First Things today, talking about why people may want to drop barriers to Communion out of fear of excluding the people who most need strength and support, and offering suggestions for other ways to see, know, and love our pewmates: Communion is often the sign of acceptance that people seek—not just because it’s at the heart of the faith, but because it may be the only form of love that people know how to ask for or see... Read more

Parsing Catholicism

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2015-10-20T15:24:32-04:00

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Extending Family and Keeping an Honorary Aunt in your Basement

Last updated on: October 20, 2015 at 3:24 pm By Leah Libresco

I love this essay by Mikkee Hall (“Why I moved 1,600 miles to live downstairs from my godchildren”) on expanding families and supporting unusual vocations to love in the Washington Post. As I hit my mid-30s, I knew it was time to make a radical change. So when my best friend and her husband moved their family of six to Denver, I packed up what would fit in my car, sold the rest and joined them to live in their... Read more

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2015-10-15T14:58:41-04:00

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How Do You Lance A Festering Resentment?

Last updated on: October 15, 2015 at 2:58 pm By Leah Libresco

I’m curious what readers (religious or not) wind up doing when you’re frustrated by/or angry at someone. I’ve just been reading Letters to a Beginner: On Giving One’s Life To God by Abbess Thaisia of Leushino and she writes sharply against idle talk and gossip: It begins under the pretext of conversing, of discussing some business, but then we proceed imperceptibly to an altogether unnecessary, empty, and sinful conversation. Like a deeply-rooted infection, this sickness does not easily submit to healing. It... Read more

Morality in Practice

2015-10-14T14:51:40-04:00

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I’m headed to CA for the Convinced premiere!

Last updated on: October 14, 2015 at 2:51 pm By Leah Libresco

If any readers live out by Orange County, CA, or have friends who do, I’ll be there this Friday for the premiere of Convinced, a documentary about converts to Catholicism. Convinced includes interviews with a number of converts to Catholicism, and the one I’m most excited to meet in person is Holly Ordway, the author of Not God’s Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms, who is like me insofar as she’s a curly-haired, argumentative atheist-turned-Catholic who fought her way into... Read more

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2015-10-13T15:49:45-04:00

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The Pitiful Princedom of Hannibal

Last updated on: October 13, 2015 at 3:49 pm By Leah Libresco

At First Things, Alexi Sargeant has an interesting take on the kind of evil on display in the tv show Hannibal. (Note: I don’t watch the show — too brutal — so my experience of it is mostly gifsets shared on tumblr; I do love the showrunner’s previous show Pushing Daisies). So, I recommend the essay as a whole, but I’m just going to riff on one particular part of it. In Sargeant’s view, Hannibal is a Lucifer-like figure, but not the... Read more

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