Mike Gray Blog

Mike Gray Blog: Beer, Barbecue, Catholicism, and Other Interests

  • Embracing Digital Minimalism to Make the Most of Social Media

    Embracing Digital Minimalism to Make the Most of Social Media

    Back in the mid 2000s, my grad school thesis advisor sent me to a conference in Boston on the emerging field of social networks. Back then, Facebook had just started with college students and various social media platforms promised to connect the world by bringing everyone a few degrees of separation from world leaders and…

  • Brewing an Oak Aged Sour Beer (Part 1)

    Brewing an Oak Aged Sour Beer (Part 1)

    I gave up alcohol for Lent, an unfortunate sacrifice when you brew beer as a hobby. While I am not drinking beer, I like to keep a batch fermenting and did not give up making alcohol, just drinking it (sorry, I’m a lawyer). To avoid the disappointing circumstance of brewing a beer that’s past its…

  • Looking to the Eastern Church for Reform in Rome

    Looking to the Eastern Church for Reform in Rome

    In Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed: Ridding the Church of Abuses, Adam A.J. DeVille considers possible reforms to Roman Catholicism that respect tradition while reducing abuse and increasing accountability. The book’s strength is that while it challenges many common assumptions about the Church, it does not fall into the traps of either presuming that the…