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September 2018

September 01, 2018

Justin’s Apology

My patron saint is Holy Justin the Philosopher and Martyr. Every morning I ask him...

August 2018

August 25, 2018

On the Vigano memo about what Francis knew about McCarrick

Shit.

August 24, 2018

Writing to clarity on the abuse crisis in the Latin Church

Over the past week or so, I've been trying to work through what I think...

August 20, 2018

It’s only as good as we practice it: clarifying my Greek Catholic thoughts on the sex abuse crisis

An Eastern Catholic writing colleague of mine wrote after my post last week on the...

August 17, 2018

I know a priest who is gay

The fresh wounds wrought by the newest revelations of sex abuse in the Latin Church...

August 16, 2018

Nothing surprises me anymore – until it does: reflections on the Pennsylvania grand jury report and bishops’ conferences

As I read the grand jury report from Pennsylvania on the sex crimes of priests...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

To have been a child of the nineties: reflections on sex, conservatism, and pop culture

I am a child of the nineties. It has been hard for me to admit...

July 18, 2018

‘You’ll believe God is a woman’ – on the ruins of the Religious Right

I have seen on some corners of the Internet that conservative folks are supposedly having...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

The Wound of History

In my first childhood memory, I am standing by the fireplace. It's made of brick,...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

If I were in the Latin Church, I’d be pretentious af (Album Challenge #6)

I am not in the Latin Church because I would be pretentious af. I cannot...

May 18, 2018

Mission Day #1: A Divine Love That Brings Joy

When You had fulfilled Your plan for us and united things on earth with those...

May 16, 2018

‘…it was more than likely that you were a Gould fan as well’ (Album Challenge #4)

The music critic Tim Page describes the Canadian pianist extraordinaire Glenn Gould in a 2003 essay...

May 16, 2018

I didn’t want to listen to music about sex (Album Challenge #3)

When I was taking trumpet lessons as a teen, my teacher made suggestions every so...

May 15, 2018

Fire and wind (Album Challenge #2)

My first encounter with the violin was the day that I also learned about Kumon....

March 2018

March 02, 2018

Rebuild my church (Great Fast #12)

Whenever I play hooky from my home Kyivan Church and hang out with the Latins...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Lady Bird and the transfiguration of everyday life (Great Fast #8)

There are necessarily spoilers for what I am about to write. But it is fair...

February 12, 2018

Writing myself to a sea-change

I said in my last post that last year's Great Fast helped me to discover...

January 2018

January 08, 2018

Lipstick on my relics

Eugenia Geisel is one of my former students at the University of Washington and is...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

Illich and Ilyich (My conversion to liberation theology #12)

This is the twelfth entry in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

December 25, 2017

On ‘Mary, Did You Know?’

I remember the first time I heard 'Mary, Did You Know?' It was at a concert...

December 15, 2017

On my encounter with erotic Catholic personalism (My conversion to liberation theology #4)

This is the fourth in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

November 2017

November 01, 2017

Retracing My Footsteps in the City of Saints (#6b): A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Catholic: Part 2 – by Eugenia Geisel

This is the final post in a series of posts entitled Retracing My Footsteps in the...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Luther and me: thoughts for Reformation Day on its 500th anniversary

I remember the first time I learned about Martin Luther. My dad came home after...

October 04, 2017

Abba Francis

Today on the New Calendar is the Feast of Our Venerable Father among the Saints...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Grounding theologies: owning my personhood three years out from the Umbrella Movement

A day after the Umbrella Movement began on 28 September 2014, I sat down to...

September 28, 2017

More reflections on the Internet, thanks to Zoë Quinn’s new book

I just finished reading Zoë Quinn's very new book Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My...

September 26, 2017

Online humiliation and the pedagogy of the Holy Cross

Many years ago, I sent a note to a person who was a mentor of...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

In appreciation of Artur Rosman’s Catholic imagination

My friend Artur Rosman got a job. I don't know why so many of us...

August 22, 2017

SERIES: Reflections on the Most Holy Theotokos and her Dormition

Over the duration of the Dormition Fast on the New Calendar (August 1-15), I wrote...

August 15, 2017

The assumption of the people (Dormition Fast #14)

Recently, a priest of the Latin Church impressed on me the significance for the West...

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