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December 2015

December 07, 2015

Islam, Reality, and Renewal

Anyone feeling a little desperate to see the connection between Islam and terrorism parsed intelligently...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Jean Ousset: The Wit and Wisdom of A Wingnut

In the days before e-mail, dashing off a few words to a friend or a...

November 04, 2015

Generation Win: LGBT-Rights Supporters and Those Mad Enough to Resist Them

We’re living in a world where jocks use words like “relational” – and come to...

September 2015

September 04, 2015

Kim Davis and the Wild Leap of Faith

To all appearances, when Kim Davis, claiming to act “Under God’s authority,” imposed a ban...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

Margie Winters: The Making of A Rebel

When I first read the story of how Waldron Mercy fired Margie Winters, a lesbian...

July 2015

July 20, 2015

Planned Parenthood and the Shudder Factor

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards committed a tactical error when she apologized for the “tone”...

July 13, 2015

The Not-So-Simple Faithful

How do you welcome someone who’s convinced he holds the deed to your house? That’s...

July 09, 2015

Of Obergefell and Ostracism

Just as I was learning not to hate the term “national conversation,” gay marriage supporters...

July 04, 2015

A Requiem for Abnormality

A few weeks ago, a longtime reader, a gay man in his 60s – his...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Obergefell and New Identities

I would not have known this yesterday, but reading Slate on the morning after an...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

The Day the Pope Said ‘Gay’

Fielding questions from the press on his way home from World Youth Day, Pope Francis...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

The Witness of Mary Elizabeth Williams

Salon staffer Mary Elizabeth Williams calls herself "a gay-friendly, feminist, pro-choice, bigmouthed practicing Catholic." In...

May 24, 2013

How’s That “Culture of Encounter” Workin’ for Ya?

On Wednesday, May 22, Pope Francis called on Catholics and non-Catholics to build a "culture...

May 04, 2013

This Week in the Military: Duelling Moral Panic

Military Religious Freedom Foundation head Mikey Weinstein takes pains to remind fellow Americans that he's...

March 2013

March 22, 2013

Keep it Simple…For Now?

One day in the agora, tradition has it, Diogenes passed a group of spiffily dressed...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

Father of Mine: A Lenten Reflection

If you grew up in an average occidental family, chances are excellent that at some...

January 2013

January 04, 2013

Praying for Jennifer Fulwiler and Breaking the Gadget

Readers: When I wrote this piece, all the news I'd received on Jennifer Fulwiler's condition...

December 2012

December 16, 2012

Can A Mass Murder Mean A Church-World Truce?

Only something unthinkably bad could make Slate and National Catholic Register cover the same story...

July 2011

July 12, 2011

No Homophobia? Okay. No Communism, Either

What do you do when both sides are tossing rhetorical bombs? Aside from ducking, the...

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