Leah Libresco Sargeant
My books, on converting: amzn.to/2KjFMPa, on community: amzn.to/2JFgs4v. Tiny Book Club: tinybookclub.substack.com Husband: @alexisargeant
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Evangelization 101: A Conversation with Leah Libresco Sargeant
Friends, I was grateful to answer questions with students at Princeton University about evangelization, faith, and reason. The event was led by Leah Libresco Sa...
Leah Libresco Sargeant
I'm very glad to have facilitated @BishopBarron's conversation about evangelization with the students at Princeton through @AquinasInst.
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itch.io Halloween Sale 2020 by Cloven Pine Games
A bundle by Cloven Pine Games, $1.00 for Bring Home The Babe, The Tabula Initiative
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Hard Questions: Regressive Abortion Restrictions
How do we defend the child without laying a disproportionate burden on the most vulnerable mothers?
Leah Libresco Sargeant
I'm hosting a Hard Questions discussion for pro-life feminists: What policies defend babies without laying disproportionate burdens on the poor.
Often, marginal barriers to abortion access have the biggest effects on marginalized women.
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Windsor Castle: Changing hundreds of royal clocks
This weekend, the horological conservator at the royal castle will be changing 400 clocks by hand.
Leah Libresco Sargeant
“[It has been said that] clocks were a way to bring God into your house, because God made time, and man made a machine to capture time.”
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Down's syndrome: 'In all honesty we were offered 15 terminations'
Mothers of babies with Down's syndrome reveal the pressure they felt to terminate their pregnancies.
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Leah Libresco Sargeant
UK parents share stories of being pressured to choose abortion for their children.
“At 38 weeks, the doctors made it really, really, really clear that if I changed my mind on the morning of the induction to let them know, because it wasn't too late.”
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7 Quick Takes
—1 — I started reading the book The Lost Pianos of Siberia. Fairly engaging so far, although I am always wary of the exploration of a phenomenon via the lens of a personal journey. If t…
Leah Libresco Sargeant
TIL about chapel cars on trains!
amywelborn.wordpress.com/2020/10/23/7-q…
C’mon, @Amtrak!
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Abortion should be Illegal
Trigger warning: I use some very graphic language here. May not be suitable reading for a person who has had an abortion. Style is a bit “philosophy paper.” May be boring/impenetrable. The killing of unborn children is the greatest human rights...
What if Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”
Inside the Refugee Camp on America’s Doorstep
A squalid tent camp on the border is the result of President Trump’s unprecedented limits on asylum. Some people have waited in filthy conditions for more than a year to obtain refuge in the United States.
On Wealth and Poverty: St. John Chrysostom
Founded in 1968, St Vladimir's Seminary Press is the largest and most active publisher of Orthodox Christian books in the English language.
Leah Libresco Sargeant
St. John Chrysostom's On Wealth and Poverty is on sale for 30% off.
svspress.com/on-wealth-and-…
A good time to buy it and give at least the money saved (if not more) to the poor.
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How to get into and write better cultural criticism
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Teaching Others to be Curious
Part 2 of my dialogue with Chana Messinger
Leah Libresco Sargeant
For some #debatenight counterprogramming: I interview @ChanaMessinger about how, as teachers, we get other people to be curious.
One key skill: realizing you don't know something and *not* defensively panicking.
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Leah Libresco Sargeant
I interviewed @ChanaMessinger I love her approach to sitting with uncertainty:
"Much like young children who hurt themselves and look to their parents to see how bad it is, my students take some cues from me on how deep the pit they’re in is."
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Leah Libresco Sargeant
For some #debatenight counterprogramming: I interview
@ChanaMessinger
about how, as teachers, we get other people to be curious.
One key skill: realizing you don't know something and *not* defensively panicking.
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Nasa to make major announcement about the moon
Flying observatory that made new discovery is able to ‘pick up phenomenon impossible to see with visible light’, space agency notes
The Collapse of Long-Term Care Insurance
Attempts to have the private market manage support and services for the elderly or people with disabilities have utterly failed.
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Check Your Pravilege
This is the 100th edition of Snakes & Ladders! Thanks so much to everyone who has come along for the ride, whether starting recently or from the beginning. I...
Murmurs from the Cloven Pine
Reflections on RPG design and practice from Alexi of Cloven Pine Games
Leah Libresco Sargeant
I'll be running Autumn Triduum at this year's @DoxaconPrime.
You can follow @ClovenPineGames's design thoughts here and stay tuned for future sessions
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