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February 2016

February 05, 2016

For the Love of Lust

Someone accused me recently of being obsessed with sex. It's not a new accusation: I...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

Telling the Deep, Dark Truth About the Sordid Sin of Sodomy in Love

I want to deal in a little more detail with the idea that it is...

January 15, 2016

Child Sex Abuse in the Church of Rock and Roll?

Artur Rosman of Cosmos The In Lost published a post the other day calling the...

January 08, 2016

Till Pregnant Women Have Faces

Giving birth – the capacity of the female body to produce a new living being...

December 2015

December 18, 2015

Queer Issue: Telling the Story of Labour and Birth Outside of Traditional Femininity

I haven't been writing much about gender and gender dysphoria recently, mostly because I find...

December 07, 2015

The Dead Horse Rides Again: Homosexuality as Mental Illness

The question returns, like Jason Vorhees in the 12th sequel to Friday the 13th: is...

November 2015

November 21, 2015

Trans Women are From Pluto

There was a comment that was left a while back that I never got around...

November 16, 2015

The NFP Catholic’s Guide to Pregnancy

For arcane and inscrutable reasons, I keep going on-line to try to find useful advice...

November 07, 2015

Is Being Open to Life Easier if You’re Rich?

There's been some discussion around Patheos about David Mill's article over at Aleteia. The basic...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

Gender Heresy

First Things has recently published and interesting article on the protest against Germaine Greer for...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

Sex and Simulacrum

I want to talk about the relationship between gender and "essential" masculinity/femininity, but before I...

September 06, 2015

Is Spiritual Friendship Code for Gay Unions?

I'm reading Rachel Lu's essay critiquing Spiritual Friendship in Living the Truth in Love: Pastoral...

September 05, 2015

A Pastoral Challenge: 10 Arguments About Gay Identity

I honestly hoped that I would never have to write ever again about the question...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

I and Thou: Orthodox Theology of Marriage

"Orthodoxy considers both the unitive and procreative aspects of marriage to be important. Yet it...

August 26, 2015

Sadomasochism, Satan and Same-Sex Attraction

Consider two very different same-sex attracted Catholic men...

August 25, 2015

Why We’re All Such Jerks to Deacon Jim

Deacon Russell has recently explained why he's such a jerk to gay people – or...

August 24, 2015

Can I Write Smut?

A friend on Twitter asked me about how Catholic writers ought to deal with sexual...

August 18, 2015

A Crisis in a Teapot: Why Gay Catholics Can Never Be Good Enough

I am absolutely sick to death of Crisis Magazine's hit-pieces against the small handful of...

August 13, 2015

Trans and Catholic: An Interview with Aoife Assumpta Hart

I've talked before about the importance of including trans people in the Christian conversation. On...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

A Great Post on Transgender — From the Last Place I Would Have Expected It

This is a really fantastic and detailed article on transgender and intersex science -- from...

July 29, 2015

12 Causes of Gender Dysphoria

Biological factors aren't the only possible causes of gender dysphoria. In fact, I would say...

July 28, 2015

What Every Christian Should Know About Trans People

To a lot of Catholics, the trans community just seems like a natural extension of...

July 28, 2015

Is Caitlyn Jenner a Demon?

Today I woke to find that one of my fellow Catholic Patheos bloggers had produced...

July 20, 2015

Abortion: A Man’s Choice

Just a couple of days ago, I was reading a Vice interview with Noel Biderman...

July 20, 2015

What is Gender Dysphoria?

I talked last time about how sexual identities – male and female – arise out...

July 19, 2015

SEX!!! (and gender)

I want to start with the most basic question in debates around trans identities: what...

July 18, 2015

Trans, Trans, Trans, Eggs, Baked Beans, and Trans

Caitlyn Jenner is back in the headlines for her speech at the ESPYs, and, on...

July 14, 2015

Only YOU Can Stop Sexual Legalism!

There is a situation that I often encounter in my work. A person has been...

July 11, 2015

Spiritual Friendship: I Review Wesley Hill’s Book

In the wake of the legalization of same-sex marriage, some Christians have started asking: how...

July 11, 2015

How Many Mortal Sins That Have Nothing To Do With Sex Can You Name In Under A Minute?

So, take a minute. Make a list. If you're a theology nerd, and you're aware,...

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