Saturday, September 15, 2007

Politics, Religion or Sex?

A couple months ago, Mary and I had a conversation about when sex would come up in our writing group. We're the wagering kind, but we haven't put any money on that one yet.

Heidi's mom, Louise, is in town this weekend. Last night at dinner (we went to Tallulah's) Louise was catching Heidi up on all the family news; it seems one of her cousins is getting married to this guy who happens to be Lutheran, and he is rampantly anti-Catholic. Not just a little bit, he won't even allow the cousin, Katie, to invite her priest to the reception. She also happens to be pregnant, so there's a lot going on there. Anyway, I started thinking about what it means to "be Catholic", and it occurred to me that all of us in the writing group are on that spectrum, so to speak. What would you all think about all of us working on that as a topic sometime?

You know me- I don't even like to give my students topics, but I thought that it would be interesting for all of us to come at a common thing from our different perspectives.

Do you hate the idea?