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November 2016

November 26, 2016

What Will Save You

The idea that our love can be bad makes us uncomfortable. Sure, we'll enjoy a leering ode to "bad...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

Onward, Affectionate Scientist!

Whenever I have the grace and good fortune to call a woman beautiful, she derails...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

How to Speak About Hell

The logic of the Inferno has always seemed simple enough. It arrives without drama, by...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Who Said It About Sexuality, Slavoj Žižek or Your Catholic Mom

You might think your Catholic mother has nothing in common with the Marxist intellectual and...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Erotic Atheism

"The desire for God is written in the human heart" (CCC 27) but knowledge of...

October 23, 2015

The Supreme Validity of the Church Lady

I know that the old ladies forever praying rosaries at the back of the Church...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Benedict-hearts in the Age of Francis

There's nothing worse than theology. Its affirmations frighten me -- I avoid it like the...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Notes on Lust

Every moment of erotic love contains the potential to create a new world -- a...

July 09, 2015

Ayn Rand, Fairy Godmother of Sexual Orientation

When I first purchased Atlas Shrugged with money I begged from a street corner, it was with...

June 2015

June 05, 2015

Eucharistic Eyes

Protestants puzzle over how Catholics can see the person of Christ in a piece of...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Sexuality and the Land

The following is a selection of an essay written for the recent Winter issue of...

February 07, 2014

Beyond Compare

I received a message asking, amongst other things: What if Islam is true? What if...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Why Name-calling is Exactly What It Sounds Like

If I could offer a single corrective to our culture, a solitary word to collar-yank...

December 2013

December 13, 2013

Presence as Absence

The absence of people we love isn't absence at all. For absence is just that...

June 2013

June 15, 2013

If God is Real, Why Won’t He Show Himself?

The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said that "just as important as the truth, and of...

June 12, 2013

Why I Can’t Conceive of De-conversion

An atheist once told me I was only a Christian because I couldn't conceive of...

May 2013

May 15, 2013

How Not To Know God

The word "eternity" scares us post-Christians. It was no contradiction for atheists like Nietzsche to...

April 2013

April 11, 2013

Death as Orgasm

Love sucks. To love is to desire communion with the beloved, to ache for unity,...

March 2013

March 11, 2013

The Erotic Uncertainty Principle

When I am in love I am uncertain, and my uncertainty makes me certain that...

February 2013

February 10, 2013

Love Creates Us, or Why People Allow Abortion in the Case of Rape

Valentine's Day is approaching far faster than single people are stocking up on vodka and...