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January 2023

January 30, 2023

Hope Is the Thing with Feather Boas: Two small gay Catholic thoughts

for the New Year! 1. I've said this before, it's in Tenderness, but I've been...

August 2022

August 26, 2022

“No Promises”: I wrote about AA and Sister Booze

for Plough: Alcoholism often reveals itself first in broken promises. If you are lucky, these...

November 2021

November 05, 2021

“Traditional ‘Side B’ LGBTQ Christians Experience a Renaissance”: Religion News Service

quotes me, plus a bunch of other people--last quote is especially good: ...Hartley is part...

July 2021

July 08, 2021

“Velvet and Pus”: I’m in Commonweal

queering: And only now, decades later, I’m realizing how much “the Catholic imagination” and one...

January 2021

January 04, 2021

Why Be Grateful to Be Gay?

One of the things I've been saying a lot over the past year or so...

December 2020

December 31, 2020

A Firm Farewell: 2020 Best of My Writing and Miscellany

Let's start with the five best things I wrote this year. Not counting the Gay...

December 28, 2020

I Used to Live Here: 2020 Revisits, In Retrospect

For a few years I've been doing this thing where I assign themes to each...

December 16, 2020

Alms to Oblivion: My decade in writing

Which I'm doing a year late, apparently, because I didn't bother before. Anyway this is...

November 2020

November 02, 2020

Discomfort Watch

Back in the last years of what they call "my drinking career" there were a...

July 2020

July 19, 2020

Lambs and Dragons: I watch “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” (sort of)

So last night I had my first experience of coronatheater: a reading, performed in five...

June 2020

June 18, 2020

Humility and Resistance in the Visions of an Enslaved Mystic

I get v. personal at The Lamp: In the middle of the seventeenth century in...

June 13, 2020

“God Has a Future for You”: My interview on gay Catholic whatnot

over at Catholic Mental Heath: Would you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit...

December 2019

December 17, 2019

Punishment: A Drinking Game

Well, you guys know that I wrote a novel, and it has now been published....

December 10, 2019

My Novel “Punishment: A Love Story” Available as eBook!

You can get it today on Kindle, or preorder for 12/15 release on Apple or...

September 2019

September 19, 2019

“Authenticity Is the New Authority”

So here I am at the Catholic Imagination Conference, hosted by Loyola University in Chicago,...

July 2019

July 12, 2019

Hear My New Novel at the Catholic Imagination Conference!

Hey, remember that novel I was shopping around? This one: It’s a comedy about a...

June 2019

June 02, 2019

Raissa Maritain : Souffrance :: me : Sleaziness

Yesterday I finished Brenna Moore's Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

Being Shut Out of the Perfect Closed Sphere of Faith: I’m at The Catholic Woman

being a Catholic woman: Hey-- Back in 1998 or 1999, when I was a very...

April 23, 2019

Were You There When the Stone Was Rolled Away? Triduum Notes from a Gone-Away City

Some personal news: Christ is risen! Holy Thursday: I avoided the Triduum services at my...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

“Voluntary Compliance”: Help Me Find an Agent/Publisher for My Second Novel

Okay people, it's time to put this out there. I have completed another novel (my...

January 2018

January 07, 2018

That Great Drowned Atlantis, The ’90s

I've been doing a thing where I bring various periods of my life, and the...

December 2017

December 11, 2017

Counting Days

Some notes on Advent & addiction. I've said before that David Carr's Night of the...

October 2017

October 23, 2017

Blue Moon: My tribute to/critique of 1985 lesbian classic film “Desert Hearts”

is at Commonweal: Donna Deitch always intended Desert Hearts to be not only a lesbian...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

In Your Eyes I See the Doorways to a Thousand Churches

One of the moments that stood out to me at that Calvin College "Faith &...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Thirty-Eight Films (Favorite Movies from Each Year of My Life)

I've found these exercises so fascinating. Other people's lists have made me reconsider movies I'd...

March 20, 2017

Hey New York! Come See Me Yap About Catholicism & Art & the Body, This Thursday!

It'll be a neat little "interview" on the topic, "Christianity Is the Most Materialistic of...

March 06, 2017

Two Short Gay Catholic Whatnot Notes: An Apology (Mine) And Possible Specifics (Yours)

LOL what a terrible title. Okay, so I did a couple speaking engagements last week,...

February 2017

February 04, 2017

Your Body Is a Battleax: Against the Weaponization of Gay Christian Witness, Plus More From Canada

So last weekend I got to visit Our Neighbor to the North, the magical land...

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...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

The Eve Tushnet Channel

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