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March 2018

March 19, 2018

Against Competence: Short movie reviews

Clash: On paper, this is a fairly formulaic movie. During the 2013 conflict between supporters...

March 05, 2018

“Is Fun Evil?”: Short movie reviews

Extremely '70s rural vampires, a black neorealist classic of work and childhood, and South African...

March 03, 2018

This Is an Amazing Retrospective Look at Jim and Tammy Faye Baker

and American religion, by Martyn Jones in the Weekly Standard: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

Only Loved at Night: Short movie reviews + one book

Scarface: Slinky, sleazy Paul Muni. I guess it's ok to totally glamorize murder if you...

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...

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...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

Hangdog: I watch “Dog Day Afternoon”

Some notes on a powerful movie which uses its desultory pacing for impact. Lots of...

August 2017

August 14, 2017

Pretty Girls Make Graves: Short movie and book reviews

Films first. Poltergeist: The last movie I saw before my (successful, thank you St Lucy)...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

Moving Pictures from an Institution: Movie notes

Four films linked by a really depressing theme! Scum: Our institution: a 1970s Borstal (juvenile...

March 21, 2017

From Girlhood to Sublimity: Watching “The Fits” Again

It is the last dream of children: to be forever untouched. --Audre Lorde, Zami: A...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Taking the Rough with the Smooch: Movie notes

A couple quick hits before we move to our main event, viz. a trip back...

February 21, 2017

I review “I Am Michael,” The James Franco Ex-Gay Biopic

for America: For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

“‘Roe’s’ Missing Stories”: I’m at First Things

playwatching: Roe, the new play from Lisa Loomer about the woman at the heart of...

January 11, 2017

No Horror But the Class Horror: Short movie reviews with an unexpected theme

Compulsion: The other, other Leopold and Loeb flick (after Rope and Swoon, although idk, maybe...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

“Tenderness in Moonlight”: I’m at First Things

reviewing a movie, and also contemporary American Christian masculinity: Years ago I was reading testimonies...

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...

July 2016

July 01, 2016

What Might Apology and Amends to LGBT People Look Like? I’m at Vox

doin' my thing: On June 26, while flying back from a trip to Armenia, Pope...

March 2016

March 08, 2016

“Gay and Christian: Exploring Vocation, Friendship, And Celibacy”: I’m in this

three talks at the St Benedict Forum of Hope College. Me on "The Radical Challenge...

January 2016

January 16, 2016

“Carol” and the New Morality

I saw Carol, the Todd Haynes/Patricia Highsmith '5os lesbian drama, at the tail end of...

January 15, 2016

“Exterminatrix”: I review Sarah Schulman’s “Rat Bohemia”

for AmCon: I spent last weekend at the Gay Christian Network Conference in Houston, and...

October 2015

October 10, 2015

(How) Do Scary Gay Statistics Matter?

Ever since that Courage conference I've been trying to figure out a way to write...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

“Why Transgender Kids Should Wait to Transition”: Pacific Standard

short essay: ...But research has shown that most gender dysphoric children outgrow their dysphoria, and...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

“Terry Castle: The Anti-Paglia”: Helen Andrews

alerts us: ...Like Paglia, Castle’s entrée into the literary tradition of sexual inversion was a...

July 12, 2015

Walter Olson on Ferguson and Oregon Cake Bakers

at Overlawyered: Has anyone noted that the “Ferguson syndrome” of ruinously escalating fines for petty...

July 07, 2015

Bona Links: LDS Church Donates to End LGBT Youth Homelessness, Celibate Partnerships After Obergefell, And More

First, more like this please: For the first time ever, The Church of Jesus Christ...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Marriage Unconstrained: In Which I Argue with Myself

So I don't know if you noticed, but that Pixar/gay marriage post was really two...

June 27, 2015

A Few Gay Marriage Links I Like (And One Straight Link About Gay Marriage)

You can hear echoes of these posts in my Lava thing--several of us working similar...

May 2015

May 06, 2015

“Why This Gay-Married Protestant Loved Eve Tushnet’s ‘Gay and Catholic'”

Very kind & thoughtful review of the book, at New Directions: ...Part One of Gay...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

“Our Children: Gay Christians Can’t Afford to Be Divided”: I’m at Level Ground

with not my strongest piece, but I think the underlying point is necessary. One thing...

April 06, 2015

“Interview with a Christian”: Ross Douthat

makes the questionable decision to dedicate his Easter column to RFRA questions... but this is...