My heart sank last week as I read Kate’s blog entry, “Done.” In her testimony about trying to leave Catholicism, she wrote, “I’m feeling these days like I’m in the midst of a breakup, you know, the really horrible kind where you know it isn’t going to work but you want it to so badly [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Recommendations’
January 10, 2010
Kristof’s “Religion and Women”
Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof, a regular op-ed contributor to the New York Times, has dedicated his influence to fighting against women’s oppression across the world. Most recently, with this wife Sheryl WuDunn, he released the popular book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Knopf, September 2009). Yesterday in the New York [...]
July 25, 2009
A Life Lesson from Sister Act II
“Rita Louise Watson! You better get your behind back in here…” If that line carries a ring of familiarity and the image of a young Lauryn Hill, you probably grew up watching Sister Act II just like me. My friend Steph and I wore out a VHS tape with our exhaustive viewing. We can recite [...]
June 11, 2009
UP!
Go see the movie “Up.” You know, the goofy looking 3-D one? Go see it. Just do it. Pay the $10 to see it in the theater, and even pay the extra $3 they will try to get from you for the flimsy 3-D shades. I just got home from seeing it and I [...]
June 6, 2009
My Theological Inquisitions
What does it mean to claim to be a Presbyterian, or a Protestant, or a Christian?…What if we were to walk through the Protestant churches of the United States today, especially the centrist-to-liberal churches, and ask such questions of every member? How many would be left in the pews if all had to profess a [...]
June 4, 2009
Thank God She Minds
My friend Lacey is finishing up a one-year Master’s program in Critical Theory. I am really terrible about keeping in touch with her, like I am with so many special friends unfortunately, so I often sneak a peak into her life via the blogsphere. She has an interesting, creative space on the Web called She [...]
April 28, 2009
This I Used to Believe
Another recommendation! If you’ve been following the blog for awhile, you probably know I am a big fan of “This American Life,” the Chicago-based radio show about the ordinary and extraordinary lives of Americans today. Each show explores a different topic, and a recent episode’s theme was a spin off of another famous American radio [...]
April 28, 2009
The Beauty and Challenge of Being Catholic
The Catholic Studies Program at Santa Clara University, my alma mater, is sponsoring me for a lecture this Thursday on the subject of “Catholic Identity Today.” The great Jesuit I am working with pointed me to a wonderful podcast for some inspiration, and now I’m recommending it to you. “The Beauty and Challenge of Being [...]
April 25, 2009
The Good Body
A few weeks ago, I spent my Friday night reading The Good Body, a series of monologues written by Eve Ensler. The format and feel of the book is similar to the work that made Ensler (in)famous, The Vagina Monologues. I finished it the night I started it because it is short, fast, and fun, [...]
March 27, 2009
You read my writing. Now hear me speak!
Check out my podcast interview on Young Adult Ministry in Los Angeles! Raymond Nanadiego, a Young Adult Minsitry Coordinator at St. Paul the Apostle in Chino Hills, CA, runs an a great Web site with online resources for Young Adult Ministry. He interviewed Theresa Thibodeaux, the Coordinator of Young Adult Ministry in the Archdiocese of [...]
