Month: July 2010

Decreased blogging?

I’ve thought a few earlier times that I would cut back on blogging for a while for one reason or another. This time, I think I mean it.

Don’t be surprised if I’m rather taciturn for seven weeks or so. Not to be too mysterious about it: I have a perrennial vacation that I greatly value (You don’t want to go there. Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded.), a parent in a nursing home (temporarily, we believe), some big projects to advance the law firm in which I’m a partner, and, finally, an important professional examination (my first big, meaningful test since the bar exam). Exercise outdoors in summer is good, too.

Ah, summer! Time to kick back and relax it up a notch!

I may post some interesting links here without real comment — kind of like linking off Facebook — or I may actually move that sort of thing to Facebook, pure and simple. I should be back around labor day.

Another blog recommendation

Mirror of Justice is “A blog dedicated to the development of Catholic legal theory.” I apparently discovered it relatively late in the game, as it already is the second “stickiest” blog, trailing only the Volokh Conspiracy site (another law-oriented site). In other words, MOJ readers spend lots of time engaging what they read there.

This isn’t arcane stuff you need to be a lawyer to appreciate, although being a lawyer probably deepens the appreciation — or the opposition.

It’s sometimes philosophical (are there absolutes? more than one?), sometimes Front Porchy (are the suburbs bad?), sometimes surprisingly eclectic (does belief in interreligious unity reek of colonialism and empire?), and increasingly, one of my favorites.

New(ish) Blog Recommendation

Especially to Orthodox readers of this blog, I commend a new (to me) blog “A Vow of Conversation.” The author, Macrina Walker, says of herself:

When I first started this blog I was a Roman Catholic monastic. I am now exclaustrated from my monastery and am preparing to enter the Orthodox Church. I am South African, am presently in the Netherlands and my life is in a state of flux.

I’m looking forward gradually to reviewing her promising “Completed Series” as well as subscribing to her new postings.

Are gay rights in conflict with religious freedom?

I began a few days ago to write about (a) whether there’s a conflict between the robust religious freedom we’ve known in the past and “the gay rights movement” and (b) whether the Obama administration is friendly toward the latter to the detriment of the former.

The piece sort of spun out of control. Things are just too interconnected. So I’m starting fresh, determined not to allow my modest objective to sink beneath the waves of “TMI” (too much information). Continue reading “Are gay rights in conflict with religious freedom?” →