For God and Country: Patrons Only: Recent Episodes
Rosemary
Brandon and Rosemary discuss Brandon's recent article on Hungary, out in The European COnservative, here: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/the-golden-rule-is-key-president-von-der-leyen-and-western-european-leaders-are-undermining-the-eus-stability/
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
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https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Brandon and Rosemary discuss John Gray's "The Two Faces of Liberalism," an article in the Economist about the "liberal confessional state," and generally maunder on about political philosophy.
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/09/04/left-wing-activists-are-using-old-tactics-in-a-new-assault-on-liberalism
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Faces-Liberalism-John-Gray/dp/1565846788
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
For those of you who just need to hear more of Rosemary and Micah discussing modern sexuality. And Micah's wince-worthy puns.
A different, personal sort of episode. I (I as in Rosemary; I'm almost always the one writing these captions!) decided I wanted to talk about the experience of being a front line healthcare worker during the pandemic, and about the almost equally troubling pandemic of contempt.
Welcome to the first official Patrons' Only episode of Season Two!
Concluding our discussion of Ross Douthat's book "Decadent Society," Rosemary and Micah discuss what is necessary to live a life of integrity within that context.
Music and sound effects credit:Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Rosemary asks Adria and Micah, "what can the Church bring to the secular world?"
The result is, I think, one of our best episodes. We talk about unchosen obligations, solidarity vs mutual aid, drawing boundaries around our communities, redemption, and so much more.
The blog post Adria quoted (“I am a creature that habitually loves options…”): https://www.awkwardasiantheologian.com/blog/2020/11/12/possible-life-and-actual-death
The “book on public bioethics” Rosemary referenced: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987722
“Bleeding Heart Tightwads” https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/opinion/21kristof.html
Johan Maurer on “Living Without Lying” https://blog.canyoubelieve.me/2021/05/living-without-lying.html
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Rosemary interviews Catholic author Emily Stimpson Chapman, mostly about her most recent book "Letters to Myself From the End of the World," but also about loving books, Catholic faith writ large, why empathy is so controversial, how to wait well, and, perhaps most importantly . . . gin martinis.
https://stpaulcenter.com/product/letters-to-myself-from-the-end-of-the-world/
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Patrons-Only Summer Episode #1, wherein we argue about...oh, you know what we argue about.
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Brandon, Adria, and Rosemary make yet another run at partisan polarization in America. The three of us hate it, avoid it, and would like to change the broader pattern of it . . . but how can this be done? A rambling conversation but a fun one!
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
As it says on the tin! We also talk about social media spin and the general civil discourse (or lack thereof).
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
We discuss the nature of individual vs identity-based suffering, then debate the pros and cons of framing injustices as a group-identity/oppression vs a basic human fairness problem.
Then we discuss David French’s “cruelty is apostasy” piece in greater detail. An ethic of love (in the form of Christianity) defeated the Roman Empire, so how is it that we have come to believe that cruelty is the only way to move forward in the modern world?
Brandon tells us why he hates the term “ally.”
We return over and over to this passage from C. S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters,” in which the elder demon advises the younger in how to make virtue less virtuous and malice more malicious: “Do what you will, there is going to be some benevolence, as well as some malice, in your patient’s soul. The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbors whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know. The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.”
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
I (Rosemary) really hesitated to publish this episode and therefore hung onto it for a week longer than usual.
1.) I believe that gay couples should have all the state-sanctioned civil rights and other protections that straight couples have.
2.) I'm a Catholic and I think any intellectually honest Catholic has to accept the Church's teachings on sexuality, especially as they apply to their own life. I have done so.
3.) When I heard about the recent dubium put out by the Vatican in response to the German bishops asking "can we bless same sex couples"? I was a) entirely unsurprised by the negative answer and b) immediately began thinking about how my faithfulness to the Church impacts my own intimate relationships (spoiler alert: while straight, I basically can't have any either, so lucky me).
4.) I didn't realize this would become an episode until the very end, when Brandon said, "shit, this is an episode."
5.) Since I was speaking only about my own life and how it has been impacted by my obedience to the Church, and because I was not thinking about audience as I recorded (I always record our warmup so I can get the funny lines for beginning and end), I am 100% positive that I said things that could be hurtful if taken as me generalizing my experience to all. Two specific things I wish I could change: —I talked about ‘bad sexual behaviors’ (or words to that effect) referring to my own sexual sins....but in ways that made it sound like I was talking much more generally. I don’t judge anyone else’s sex life, period. (Well, maybe my close friends, when they ask me for advice......)
—I said I thought the dubium was “fine,” which, theologically, I do.....but I really don’t like the impact it is having, it upsets me much more than I went into at the time of recording, and I wish I hadn’t been so flip about the pain I know it causes.
I am usually very good at editing but without re-recording I couldn’t think of a way to fix either of those things.
6.) Ultimately Brandon and I talked it over and thought that it was a fruitful conversation, so here you go....with more caveats than usual.
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
This free-wheeling patrons-only starts with Brandon's acerbic attack on the idea that A Plan To Stop Racism can really even be a thing at all ("is there a plan to stop loveless marriages?" he asks our intrepid panel), and goes from there.
We discuss restorative justice, monopsonies (especially in regard to Amazon choosing not to sell certain books), police brutality, AND MORE.
Email us at forgodandcountry@fojf.org
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Did you know that it's possible for Catholic laity (or Christian faithful, depending on the order involved) to become "tertiaries" of a religious order, living out their lives in the secular world obedient to the rule of their chosen order (insofar as possible given their station in life)? Well, it is, and Paula is here to talk to us about it as she discerns membership in the lay fraternity of St. Dominic.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Order_of_Saint_Dominic
https://domlife.org/dominican-family/laity/
https://www.laydominicans.org
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Brandon, Micah, and Adria discuss their personal experiences with formation, from asceticism to the value of community.
Email us at forgodandcountry@fojf.org
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
-Micah asks Brandon and Rosemary: if there are alien civilizations, was there a separate Incarnation for them? Would this undermine Trinitarian theology in some way?
-How do we think about the Trinity, anyway?
-What's with rad trads (of all traditions), and what draws people to that?
-Why does Micah HATE the Orthodox? (Joking, joking...)
-Icons and iconography and extremely predictable disagreements thereon, breaking neatly along ideological lines
-Plus extra banter!
Mentioned in the show:
The Bible Project's video on the Trinity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvYmE2YYIU
Our very favorite Lutheran video about St. Patrick and his accidental Trinitarian heresies (the above video probably also falls into one of those heresies; we're just not sure which one yet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBRpeq9dVe4
Jesuits in Space! (Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sparrow_(novel)
The Best Sci Fi Novel Ever (in Rosemary's opinion), A Canticle for Liebowitz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
We want to get vaccines out efficiently and also with a fair method of prioritization. Where have we been failing, how could we do better, and what does Your Faithful Panel think of the morality involved in our decision-making?
Special attention paid to the plight of prisoners and also to straight-up logistical efficiency.
Email us at forgodandcountry@fojf.org
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Short episode this week as I (Rosemary) was struggling with the transition to a different recording platform, and I eventually threw in the towel on trying to download the audio I wanted to add in! I have sorted out my issues and we will be back to our regularly scheduled waaaaaaaaay too lengthy episodes next week.
For now, have fun listening to me, Micah, and Brandon chatting more about what we think about when we think about political ideologies.
As advertised, we discuss our feelings about the inaugural poem...and various reactions to it.
We also talk about talking about things, specifically...why we can't have this "national conversation" everyone is always asking for. Could it have to do with the byzantine and ever-changing dialect required to participate? For instance...what's the difference between equality and equity, anyway?
Email us at forgodandcountry@fojf.org
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Brandon unveils his big dreams for a centrist third party in the States, affectionately nicknamed the Magic Pixie Dream Party.
We then discuss possible moderate or centrist coalition-building, including how issues such as climate change could be uncoupled from their definition as "progressive" issues and folded into a program with broader appeal.
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Covid cases are on the rise again, and so are our opinions. Brandon has an expert opinion about the value of expertise (not nearly so valuable in the case of Covid as everyone likes to think), Adria has concerns about whose needs we're really prioritizing here, and Rosemary has a rant about the necessity of weighing competing goods.
Email us at forgodandcountry@fojf.org
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Listen to questions and answers cut from the main episode:
What does a Christianity free of anti-semitism look like?
and
How do we more closely align Christians with Christ?
Email us at forgodandcountry@fojf.org
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Micah wonders what is up with kink and the shaming thereof, which leads us all into a merry discussion of the difference between good old healthy kink and actual perversion, as well as Catholic sexual ethics, and the question of what has happened to all the lesbian bars.
Apologies to our two patrons for the late release! Upon returning home from a little jaunter about town, Rosemary found herself locked out of her apartment, and thus the time she had budgeted for editing the patrons-only episode was taken up by calling a locksmith. (Turns out the locks had actually frozen shut in the current cold snap. Did you know that was a thing? Rosemary didn't know that was a thing.) Anyway she will definitely strive never to repeat this very unpleasant experience!
Show notes: "Where have all the lesbians gone?" by Katie Herzog: https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/where-have-all-the-lesbians-gone-0a7
Email us at forgodandcountry@fojf.org
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
Adria leaves our episode early to go do Responsible Adult Things, resulting in the remaining three G&C squad members veering. . . . a little off the rails.
We move from ostensibly discussing this article about single parenting https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/parenting/single-parent-child-bond.html to . . . polyamory? And a sexual pun throwdown between Micah and Brandon?
If you're here for the witty banter, at least this episode delivers! A smattering of insight (and Micah going after polyamorists with a spiritual baseball bat) also on offer.
Music and sound effects credit:
Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/
Image credit:
https://www.vecteezy.com/holiday-seasonal/61847-grungy-easter-event-flyer-vector &
https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/147260-blue-stars-patriotic-grunge-background
and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.
We continue talking about abortion in the patrons-only episode this week, focusing on the connection between abortion and sexual ethics.
We're not usually fit for small listeners, but this episode is particularlyunfit for small listeners. But, idk, maybe our sexual ethics are too conservative? You decide!
"Eight months into the pandemic, a central, unresolved question again emerged: How much risk should be tolerated for easing restrictions on large gatherings? And, as a corollary, for what benefit?"
On November 7th, Notre Dame football fans swarmed the field to celebrate their team's once-in-a-generation upset win against Clemson, and Biden supporters swarmed the streets to celebrate their candidate's victory over Trump. Media coverage of the two events . . . varied, to say the least. The panel unpacks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/sports/ncaafootball/notre-dame-fans-clemson.html
Today we let Rosemary (our resident Catholic) unpack some truly rank papistry for us in the form of the McCarrick Report, a 461 page just-released Vatican document on the truly hideous story of how a sex abuser managed to climb the ranks of the Catholic hierarchy all the way to the archdiocese of Washington.
Not just for Catholics, this opens up some universal questions of ecclesial structure and corruption.
McCarrick Report full text:
http://www.vatican.va/resources/resources_rapporto-card-mccarrick_20201110_en.pdf
"A Time to Build" by Yuval Levin:
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Build-Community-Recommitting-Institutions-ebook/dp/B07SGQB1NH
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Build-Community-Recommitting-Institutions-ebook/dp/B07SGQB1NH
https://www.wired.com/story/witchblr-kek-online-occultism/
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