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January 2017

January 24, 2017

“‘Roe’s’ Missing Stories”: I’m at First Things

playwatching: Roe, the new play from Lisa Loomer about the woman at the heart of...

January 08, 2017

In Italy, They Call It “Battle Royale with Cheese”: I watch “The Tenth Victim”

Did you know that there's a '60s sunlit dystopia flick about a game show/social control...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

As They Liked It: Playing Shakespeare in the Early ’80s

The BBC has this great series, "Playing Shakespeare," in which John Barton leads members of...

December 24, 2016

“Unexpected Beauty in the Union Station Metro”: Prince of Petworth

posts: Tymara Walker posts on youtube (thanks to all for sending links): “This is the...

December 19, 2016

“To Paradise, By Way of Kensal Green”: I review “The English Way”

for the University Bookman. Papist polemics, monks with painted eyelids, "apostolic viragoes" and more! You...

December 04, 2016

I Think of You and Let It Go: Best Books I Read in 2016

Realized everybody's doing best-of-books in time for Christmas buying. I'll do a complete best-of post...

December 02, 2016

DC/MD Catholics: Be a Church Companion for a Pregnancy Center!

Hey y'all. The pregnancy center where I volunteer has this excellent newish program of church...

December 02, 2016

“Spirits, What Have You to Say?”: I watch “Ouija: Origin of Evil”

If you're interested in present-day portrayals of Vatican II-era Catholicism, it's pretty fascinating. If you're...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Will Heterosexuality and Anagrams Save Us from Tyranny?

So on Sunday I went to the Kennedy Center for a children's show, "Where Words...

November 30, 2016

“Junior Varsity Angel Wrestling Team”: I finally watch “The Wise Kids”

after a whole bunch of gay Christians told me I should: The last thing you...

November 22, 2016

Calling Godparents, Lifelong Friends, People Who Have Pledged to Serve Communities, And More!

Hello all. I'm doing a piece for America on what you might call "alternative kinship."...

November 22, 2016

The Eve Tushnet Channel

Or, less terrifyingly, "What's it like when you bring me to speak?" I realized you...

November 18, 2016

“Order, Chaos, Peace”: I review a biography of an architect of conservatism

for The American Conservative: Back when I was involved in the late-’90s conservative student movement...

November 16, 2016

“Tenderness in Moonlight”: I’m at First Things

reviewing a movie, and also contemporary American Christian masculinity: Years ago I was reading testimonies...

November 08, 2016

Assisted Suffering

So, I voted. Remember how I said my ballot would be a fractal of civic...

November 07, 2016

“On the Brink of a ‘Filipino Moment'” in the Catholic Church: Crux

dispatch: ...On any list of the most consequential Catholic nations today, the Philippines would easily...

October 2016

October 18, 2016

Sex Ed in the Renaissance Tavern

Over the weekend I drove to a wedding with a bunch of strangers. We got...

October 12, 2016

The Unimaginable Atheist: Aleteia Took Down My “Loser Letters” Review; You Can Read It Here

Late last month Aleteia asked me to review "The Loser Letters" at CUA. I ended...

October 07, 2016

Not Peace But a Sword: “The Birth of a Nation” (2016)

The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker's searing life of Nat Turner, is a brilliant...

October 07, 2016

The Unimaginable Atheist: I review “The Loser Letters”

and tell CUA they made a big mistake: “The Loser Letters,” Mary Eberstadt’s tale of...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

A Very Short Post on Gay and Women’s Liberation in Christ

In one of the three post-concussion Gay Catholic Whatnot interviews I've done so far, my...

September 30, 2016

Book Announcement: Staying Catholic When You’ve Been Hurt in the Church

Hello all. I'm very happy to announce that an anthology I'm editing, with the working...

September 30, 2016

Tom Holland: The Tyrannosaur vs. the Crucified

excellent metaphor and accurate insight at the heart of this piece from a scholar of...

September 29, 2016

Concussion Diary: And Then Socrates Collapsed Upon the Couch, Proclaiming, “I Cannot Smell My Feet.”

So a week ago yesterday I fainted and concussed myself. It's all fine, they know...

September 26, 2016

All Theology Is Prison Theology: A Couple of Links

A little while ago I used a Michigan case about videoconference sentencing to explore the...

September 22, 2016

“My story: Catholic, Lesbian, Celibate, & the Journey to Self-Acceptance”: I’m in the Deseret News

doin' my thing! (a much more personal, less Charles Williams-y version of my Charles Williams...

September 21, 2016

In the DC Area? Have Questions About Faith, Family, & LGBT Christians? Fond of Picnicking?

Come and picnic on Saturday, Oct 1, with Always God's Children, the ministry of St...

September 18, 2016

Doomed Queen and Beaten Champion: Concert review, Tristen & the Mountain Goats

A few weeks ago I got a chance to see the Mountain Goats in concert....

September 09, 2016

“Escape from Detroit”: I watch “Don’t Breathe”

for AmCon, and end up ranting about the sacred Victim, obviously: Don’t Breathe, the new...

September 06, 2016

“Celibacy, Self-Acceptance, And the Extra Inkling”: I’m at First Things

readin': I’ve just finished Charles Williams's 1937 novel Descent into Hell, which was recommended to...