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God’s Favorite: a new play premiering this summer, in the New York Theater Festival
For the past several months, I’ve been serving as an executive producer on a powerful new play, meeting weekly to get our production funded and off the ground. It’s called God’s Favorite, written by Catherine Crimmins. In her play, Catherine explores the story of the Virgin Mary through a novel feminist lens. It’s as funny…
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Mr. Worldwide Eclipse
A Muslim, a Jew, and a Christian walk into a bar. Our friends are right behind us. Actually, it’s more of a trickling in, really, and we probably aren’t in that order at all… I think I messed up the punchline. Let’s back up! It’s 2017. An ardent astronomy enthusiast – dare I say, zealot?…
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My response to the Vatican: a proof by contradiction
…[T]he Vatican took pains to strike a balance between protecting personal human dignity and clearly stating church teaching… https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/world/europe/vatican-sex-change-surrogacy-dignity.html And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that [Jesus] answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important…
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“Nope, respectfully”: a response to “Are American progressives making themselves sad?” by James Bennet, ‘Lexington’ columnist for The Economist
Link to original article No, James. We’re not. First, I think we disagree on what happiness is. My happiness, for example, isn’t diminished upon my learning that folks in Finland have had a joyful past several years. I don’t know how we could compare happiness in numerical terms when we can’t agree on the experience.…
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Love and Work: A Scholarship App
Before he died, Dad told me how much he regretted spending life resenting his job. No matter what, he said, I want you to love what you do. I won’t pretend that he made me promise, but in remembering the look in his eyes, it doesn’t feel right to say that he didn’t, either. I…
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