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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...

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 10, 2020

“The Cross and the Lynching Tree”

James H. Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree is probably the most haunting and...

December 2019

December 11, 2019

From Mercy to Delight: Wes Hill’s “The Lord’s Prayer: A Guide to Praying to Our Father”

My first Advent book was this slender volume of reflections on the various phrases of...

November 2019

November 08, 2019

An Interview on Crisis Pregnancy Centers

with the Irish website, The Minimise Project: Ever wondered what crisis pregnancy centres do? How...

April 2019

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...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Her Mistress’s Hand

Hello! I'm back from Revoice, it was amazing!!!, more on that in a bit. I...

June 2018

June 12, 2018

There’s a Place for Us Part II: More on Revoice & Gay Christian Homemaking

Part One was all about how straight people are wonderful and we would like to...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

“How the Eucharist Helps the Lonely and the Desperate”: I’m in the Catholic Herald

running my mouth: In 2015, a blog called Spiritual Friendship, which publishes theological and personal reflections...

November 2017

November 12, 2017

“Secrets of the South/Meet the Secret Society of Radical Black Women”

I'm just quoting one paragraph but there's so much to consider and be thankful for...

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 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....

June 2016

June 30, 2016

“If the Church Were a Haven”: Wesley Hill

at First Things: Or I think of a story I’ve heard Shane Claiborne recount, in...

June 23, 2016

“Moral Reconation Theory”: The Bizarre, Creepy Made-Up Religion Used to Re-Educate American Prisoners

like, the Scientology and Goldman Sachs stuff is not even the weirdest or most disturbing...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Are You Drinking With Me, Jesus?: Benedict Options and Recovery Communities

This is part of a series on the "Benedict Option." Part one, part two, part...

May 12, 2015

Penitence in Easter: Great Post by an Anglican Bishop

...The New Testament suggests that there is nothing more paschal in character, nothing more closely...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

The Opposite of Anti-Gay Discrimination: What I Said at Steubenville

Hi y'all. Last week I had the chance to speak at the terrific BookMarx bookstore...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

O Wanderer, Come Home: Notes from the Gay Christian Network Conference

Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Hell Is for Children: “Krabat,” A New Entry in the Field of Scary Christmas Movies

For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

From “The Orthodox Way”

Asceticism is not self-enslavement but the way to freedom. Man is a tangled mesh of...