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Worker Co-Ops and Doughnut Economics
I was reading Doughnut Economics the other night, and just finished up chapter five: Instead of focusing on redistributing income alone, they will also seek to redistribute wealth — be it the power to control land, money creation, enterprise, technology … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Theology
Tagged #blaugust, doughnut economics, non-extractive finance, raworth, red emma, seed commons
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When a Flyswatter Makes you Smile
When I saw the topic for today’s Blaugustinian group project, I knew exactly what I would write about. But the first thing you have to know about me is that I’m afraid of bugs. Super-duper icked out, will 100% screech … Continue reading
Creator Appreciation: Ben Greene of Good Queer News
I was happy to add Good Queer News to my newly revived blogroll. Its category, “Signs Blogs of the Times”, is an entirely serious play on the Vatican 2 catchphrase “signs of the times”, which reminded us to look around … Continue reading
Posted in Learningi Opportunities
Tagged #blaugust, creator-appreciation, LGBTQ+, signs of the times
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Low Stakes Hot Take: Unique
I try to be a descriptivist when it comes to language, honest. I love the slogan I learned from Lingthusiasm[1]: Not judging your language,Just analyzing it But I confess, there is one usage of one word that I cannot keep … Continue reading
My* favorite haiku
An interesting post from The Tangent Space the other day on haiku in English. I learned some things I didn’t know about the diminished importance of syllable count in English haiku, and more nuance around the use of contrasting imagery … Continue reading
Holy
In French, the Lord’s Prayer begins like this: Notre Père, qui es au cieux, Que ton nom soit sanctifié Where we get hallowed in English, we get a cognate of sanctified in French. One of my professors said that in … Continue reading
Perilous Packages
Just a few months ago, I started buying some things at CostCo. The point of Costco, of course, is that you’re buying in bulk in order to get warehouse prices. I only started doing this a few months ago because … Continue reading
Unions, Labor Justice, and Catholic Social Teaching
The Baltimore Enoch Pratt library union finally got their contract. “The private industry has always been meddling in public sector unions. They don’t want to see it happen. They’re very invested in making sure that public sector workers are beaten … Continue reading
Posted in Moral theology
Tagged #blaugust, catholic, climate justice, creation care, rerum novarum, unions
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