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June 2023

June 26, 2023

“Why I’m Creating Orthodox Educational Resources by and for LGBT Catholics”: I’m in America magazine

interviewin': Keith Wildenberg is a tall man whose hawkish face is topped with a mop...

March 2023

March 17, 2023

The King of Love My Shepherd Is: Some thoughts that are gay and also happy

Because I'm a lesbian who accepts Catholic teaching in full, I spend a fair amount...

February 2023

February 24, 2023

I’m Not Gay and So Can You!: Notes & an Interview on Greg Johnson’s History of the Ex-Gay Movement

I finally read Greg Johnson's Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the...

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...

December 2022

December 21, 2022

Five Gay Catholic Observations for 2022

This has been a big year for my gay Catholic life, lol. I hinted at...

November 2022

November 11, 2022

Order in Same-Sex Love

I'm speaking tomorrow morning on this topic, at Notre Dame's de Nicola Center for Ethics...

March 2022

March 10, 2022

What Does It Mean to Say “God Is Love” to LGBT Christians?: I’m at Grotto

doin' my thing: “God is love.” This is one of those things everybody’s heard. Sometimes...

February 2022

February 05, 2022

Controversial Topics in Gay Christian Livin’

Inspired by a twitter thread. My thoughts on "mixed-orientation marriages" and "romantic celibate partnerships"... let...

January 2022

January 28, 2022

What If Saul Had Sent Jonathan to Conversion Therapy?

The other day the subject of conversion therapy (therapy intended or expected to change the...

January 20, 2022

“The Gay Christian Drinking Game”: My new book excerpted at Christians for Social Action

plus a brief interview: I am a recovering alcoholic; by God’s unexpected mercy I’ve been...

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...

October 2021

October 11, 2021

God’s Answers Deserve Better Questions: What I said at Revoice 21

Revoice is a conference for lgbt/same-sex attracted Christians who accept what is sometimes called a...

July 2021

July 12, 2021

A Long Interview on Conversion Therapy, My New Book, And Gay Catholic Stuff Generally

at CNA: I wrote Tenderness: A Gay Christian’s Guide to Unlearning Rejection and Experiencing God’s...

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...

May 2021

May 13, 2021

Conversion Therapy in Catholic Settings: I’m in America magazine

with interviews, and some reflections on how influential the theories behind conversion therapy really are...

March 2021

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 &...

March 15, 2021

CDF on Blessing of “Same-Sex Unions”: A very short post

expanding on the thing I'm quoted saying in this America piece. My apologies if the...

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...

October 2020

October 12, 2020

“Hidden Treasures for Gay Catholics”: I’m in a book!

with an essay which can also serve as a "trailer" for the forthcoming sequel to...

October 05, 2020

“A Life of Love Affairs That Ended with God”

I wrote about Liane de Pougy's diaries, for America's books issue: ...For Lianon (as she...

September 2020

September 07, 2020

What Hope Can the Church Offer Gay Catholics? I’m at the Catholic Herald

subscribers-only, I'm afraid, but I'm out there telling you that you don't have to become...

June 2020

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...

June 11, 2020

Bound Together: Two short book reviews

linked by the lives of the authors. Dunstan Thompson, Here at Last Is Love: Selected...

September 2019

September 10, 2019

Revoice: Hope Rests on Honesty

People of Earth! Two years ago Revoice became, as far as I know, the only...

June 2019

June 10, 2019

Ecstasy in Celibacy, part one: The Handout

Hey y'all. I had a terrific time at Revoice 2k19, where I presented a workshop...

January 2019

January 20, 2019

Desert Hearts: I watch “The Jewish Cardinal”

Lord, if this is how You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few...

December 2018

December 29, 2018

Romance Is Not a Children’s Game: Short book and movie reviews

A motley assortment, although I guess they do all roughly fit the post title. Camille...

December 10, 2018

“It’s hard to be gay and Catholic. It doesn’t have to be.”

I'm in the Washington Post in re: Pope Francis & gay priests: Homosexuality in the...

November 2018

November 19, 2018

Spiritual Friendship and Self-Abasing Love in a New Wilde Biopic

which I review for America magazine: There is a moment toward the beginning of Rupert...

October 2018

October 20, 2018

Dichotomies to Watch Out For: I read an Anglican intervention on gay relationships

In 2008, University of Edinburgh theology professor Oliver O'Donovan published a series of essays online,...