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February 2016

February 10, 2016

“Being Single Shouldn’t Mean Being Alone”: I’m in the Washington Post

doin' my thing: If you saw Pixar’s “Inside Out,” you may remember the charming short...

February 03, 2016

A Friend in Need: “Creep”

Shortly after I submitted my 2015 horror round-up aka every Halloween is self-parody Halloween, I...

December 2015

December 02, 2015

“Married, With Roommates: Why My Wife and I Choose to Live in a Group House”: Vox

voxes: ...Once we saved up enough money to buy a house of our own in...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

Prepare for Life in Post-Christian America: Play “After Virtue”–The Game!

or, my review of Winners and Losers: “Winners and Losers,” created by Marcus Youssef and...

October 2015

October 08, 2015

“Reflections on the Feast of St Francis”: Ron Belgau

on a great saint (and a great hagiography): G. K. Chesterton’s biography of St. Francis...

September 2015

September 26, 2015

“Gay Catholics and Spiritual Friendship”: Catholic News Service

video, with me & Ron Belgau:

September 21, 2015

“Married or Not, All Families Deserve Equal Benefits”: WaPo

I would frame this in terms of supporting caregiving--framing things in terms of "equality" just...

September 18, 2015

I Watch “Mistress America,” The New Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig Flick About Women’s Friendship

for AmCon: One of the weirder trends in today’s art is the rise of a...

September 18, 2015

“Love, Covenant, and Friendship”: Ron Belgau Looks at the Biblical Models

at Spiritual Friendship: In my previous post, I drew attention to the way the Catholic...

September 07, 2015

The Human Heart Is a Cactus, The Desert Makes It Bloom: Notes on Friendship and a Courage Conference

So I was invited to a conference run by Courage, a Catholic ministry to people...

May 2015

May 10, 2015

“Gay & Celibate”: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

profile mostly of Wesley Hill, w/some commentary from others: Wesley Hill is convinced that taking...

May 07, 2015

“Friendship with a Future Tense”: I review Wesley Hill’s great new book

for AmCon: Most of the art and literature of friendship is elegiac. From Montaigne to...

May 04, 2015

“Detachment in Friendship”: I’m at Spiritual Friendship

with a small post: A while ago I was talking to my spiritual director about...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

“No Marriage Is an Island”: I’m at AmCon

riffing on the relevance of a book about gay celibacy for people who are neither...

April 15, 2015

Two Links About Wesley Hill’s Fabulous New Book “Spiritual Friendship”

Oh so much more on this book from me coming soon! First, Wes is interviewed...

April 14, 2015

“Metaphors of Brotherhood and Sisterhood”: I’m at Spiritual Friendship

with a short post: This is just a quick post to note that we don’t...

April 02, 2015

“What’s Hiding Behind Our Identity (Politics)?”: I’m at AmCon

having massive esprit d'escalier about this piece, but it does some good stuff I think:...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Where Do Men Still Cuddle?: Vlad Chituc

writes: ...If it weren’t so threatening to seem gay, there wouldn’t be a need to...

March 04, 2015

“What I’ve Learned As a Gay Catholic”: I’m at LifeTeen

doin' my thing: ...So far I’ve only written about what you as an individual gay...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

“Inside the Seminary”: Disturbing report

in Commonweal: ...From 2008 through 2010, I was a seminarian in St. Paul, Minneapolis, an...

February 05, 2015

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig Reviews “Gay and Catholic”

for AmCon. Really like the point about my book being specifically lesbian rather than gay--and...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

“To Overcome Distrust, Renew Friendship”: Amber and David Lapp

have basically the same conversation I just had with a woman at the pregnancy center:...

January 16, 2015

“Zoning Boards Go Nuclear on Too-Traditional Families”: Me at AltFem

from the Gospels to the Golden Girls: The people in 68 Scarborough St., in Hartford,...

January 16, 2015

“Gay, Catholic, And Called to Love”: Me and My Oxford Comma Are in the Catholic World Report

interviewin' (bookhawkin'): In her book, Tushnet recounts how during her first week at Yale University,...

January 13, 2015

Honoring Friendship on St Aelred’s Feast Day

...which I totally missed. But there's always next year (if the Messiah tarries): I don’t...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

A Couple Best-Of Lists from Wesley Hill and Helen Andrews

Hill: ...I write often about the consolations of friendship, hospitality, and Christian community, but sometimes...

December 05, 2014

Jose Mena vs Me on Christian Friendship

A critique of some elements of my book. Some of this misreads specific phrases (I...

December 02, 2014

From the Letters of St Gregory of Nazianzus to St Basil

What I wrote before about our stay in Pontus was in joke, not in earnest;...

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...

November 28, 2014

Who Counts as Family? A Rich Connecticut Neighborhood* Tests the Boundaries

via Ratty, and super-relevant to conversations here about friendship as kinship: A neighborhood kerfuffle on...