Elizabeth Scalia talked about her Catholicism as a “terrible beauty of a life.”
When she began blogging, she said, she wrote way too much about Peyton Manning. Or maybe it was Derek Jeter.
I asked her how often she blogs,
“If I’m on a roll, five times,” she answered.
“A week?”
“No, a day.”
Dang, I’ve been posting once a week! I’m inspired. I must tell you that I’m on a roll too. This month, I’ve got nine sources of income. So I’m busy, busy, busy and my blogging doesn’t pay. But maybe I should write about Manning or Jeter.
Scalia discussed her book, “Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life” The blogger critiqued the “gods” of the internet and social media as shrines to one’s self and an endles “echo chamber.”
Yes, she did. She called the internet the devil.
Despite the internet’s “evil,” Ms. Scalia found comfort in Pope Benedict’s dictate to “give the internet a soul.” Fun, smart, productive.
Scalia is the managing editor of the Catholic channel on Patheos. She blogs at the Anchoress.
Next month’s lunchtime religion communicators group will meet on May 15 and the speaker will be Norris Chumley. All I can say is he better not blog more than me.
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