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January 2023

January 26, 2023

Kiss and Cry: Short movie notes

Let's start with Free Skate, a new drama from Roope Olenius. [edited to correct the...

February 2022

February 21, 2022

“Urban planning can facilitate friendship–and the Catholic Church can help”: I’m in America

with a sort of overstuffed article that I do think contains some good & interesting...

July 2021

July 20, 2021

Derry Is Calling You: Some notes on the new IT

Spoilerous. # I read my sister's copy of IT over one day and one night...

April 2021

April 19, 2021

A New Extra-Millennial Book About Friendship as a Site of Sacrifice

I'm in the America spring books issue: As contemporary secular writers notice how attenuated our...

March 2021

March 29, 2021

Pleathers: I watch “Jennifer’s Body”

Lol I promise that is the last non-Holy Week appropriate movie I will watch until...

March 17, 2021

A Final Note on CDF, Blessings, And the Role of Priests

I said my main thing about the CDF statement on blessing same-sex unions already &...

November 2019

November 12, 2019

The Fifth Step as “Sacrament of Friendship”

...and other thoughts from my talk at Notre Dame. I was there to talk about...

November 08, 2019

An Interview on Crisis Pregnancy Centers

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

July 2019

July 31, 2019

The Night Ape Sex Came Home to Play

In the summer before I went to college, a comic collection came out: Chester Square...

July 31, 2019

If My Heart Was a House You’d Be Home By Now: Two short movie reviews

The Last Black Man in San Francisco: I thought this would be a story of...

May 2019

May 06, 2019

Two Charcoal Fires, Two Words for Love: Ron Belgau on Peter and Jesus by the Sea of Tiberias

this is great stuff: After breakfast, Peter and Jesus had a conversation which raises an...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

Bringing Your Pilgrimage Home: I write about World Youth Day & Adoptive Brotherhood

at the Catholic Herald: In 1985, two historians traveled through Turkey and the Middle East...

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...

June 12, 2018

There’s a Place for Us: Revoice and Gay Christian Futures

I'm speaking at Revoice, a conference in St Louis next month aimed at "supporting, encouraging...

December 2017

December 15, 2017

The Searchers: I revisit “ElfQuest”

This winter I've had the true pleasure of revisiting a comics series I adored in...

December 13, 2017

Work Is a Four-Letter Word: I review “The Animators”

at First Things: It may be gauche to say that novels should be moral tales;...

March 2017

March 07, 2017

“Their Wives and Their Wealth Have Made Them So Mute”: Reading Waugh’s biographies of Campion & Knox

Recently finished Two Lives, which encloses in one volume Evelyn Waugh's biographies of St Edmund...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

“Beyond Religious Life and Marriage”: My Epic Piece for “America” on Nonmarital Christian Kinship

in some of its many forms: Tim Otto found the Church of the Sojourners in...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

More Sex Ed Thoughts Plus Two Disreputable Songs

I'm not especially satisfied with that post I did about sex ed, and this email...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

“Who Rents, Who Buys, Who Tells Your Story?”: I review “Little Men”

for First Things: Little Men, the new gentrification drama from writer/director Ira Sachs (Love Is...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Kids Under 12 Drink Free: I review the “AbFab” movie & “Bojack Horseman”

together! The third season of Bojack Horseman arrived the same day the long-awaited Absolutely Fabulous:...

July 06, 2016

“Inside Japan’s Booming Rent-a-Friend Industry”: The Week

isn't the "ohh those kooky Japanese!" story I feared. All the many reasons you might...

May 2016

May 04, 2016

“Christian Love and Kinship Outside Marriage: Thoughts from a Gay Catholic”

My talk at Calvin College is available at Livestream and YouTube (below): I thought this...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

“Some Possibilities for Narratives of Friendship”: I’m at Spiritual Friendship

readin' books: I loved Wes’s post on writing about friendship, and figured I’d throw some...

April 21, 2016

Church Division vs. Your Vocation: A tiny Gay Catholic Whatnot post

I was at Calvin College to do a talk on "Christian Love and Kinship Outside...

April 21, 2016

Reading, ‘Riting and Repentance: Some Notes from the Festival of Faith and Writing

at Calvin College. This was a blast, guys. Here are some semi-cleaned-up excerpts from my...

April 05, 2016

“Every Last One Was a Mother to Me”: Four DC Women Live a Century of Friendship

from the Washington Post: ...In Southwest Washington, people tended to live out their days in...

April 01, 2016

“The Consolations of Friendship”: Intriguing Theological Exploration

by Wesley Hill: ...Perhaps this is at the heart of why Christians came to celebrate...

February 2016

February 19, 2016

“What Conservative Gay Christians Want”: I’m in the Spectator

spectating: The LGBT rights movement — so the story goes — has split the Christian...

February 13, 2016

Kissing Covens: I watch “The Sisterhood of Night”

Despite the title, spooky cover, and synopsis (ARE OUR TEENS IN A WITCH SEX CULT?...