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September 2013

September 10, 2013

“Desolations”

of being gay and Christian--Brent Bailey blogs: I resist stereotypes about gay people and try...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

From Yesterday’s Readings

R. (1) You have searched me and you know me, Lord. Where can I go...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

Two Tributes to Mary Magdalene

with two very different portraits of the saint. (Five minutes left in her feast day!)...

July 18, 2013

“A Different Kind of Coming Out”

in Christianity magazine: In a basement under a church in London I’m meeting with three...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

“Holy Agony”: I’m at Commonweal

reviewing the Met's recent Dialogues of the Carmelites: The Metropolitan Opera’s recent production of Dialogues...

June 24, 2013

“The Prayer of Honest Desire”: This is super-great

And it is here within his conception of moral practice as desire-discovery—or as he calls...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

“Where the Soul of Man Never Dies”

Johnny Cash & Emmylou Harris. Sort of via First Thoughts.

May 23, 2013

“Spiritual Unemployment”: Three Links on Pope Francis and Redemption

First Things quotes a different pope--Benedict XVI: The question that torments us is . ....

May 10, 2013

“Don Pino: The Most Important Beatification of the Early 21st Century”: John L. Allen, Jr

at the Nat'l Catholic Reporter: In two weeks, on May 25, the Catholic church will...

May 01, 2013

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly…

In the continuing saga of my criticism of critical thinking.... An astute reader pointed out...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

“Believe” is a transitive verb, and other good points against me

Christian H at The Thinking Grounds makes an attempt to figure out why on earth...

April 25, 2013

From Henri Nouwen, “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”

Simply start by admitting that you cannot cure yourself. You have to say yes fully...

April 11, 2013

The Beauty of Obedience

After I spoke on that panel in New York last night, some of the organizers...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

“The Agony of a Steadily Trusting Faith”: Wesley Hill

quotes Walter Moberly [O]ne should not so romanticize the process of moral and spiritual struggle...

March 28, 2013

“What Is the Purpose of Lent?”

I'm in the NYT "Room for Debate," w/John Corvino, Rod Dreher, Maria Scaperlanda, & Patrick...

March 28, 2013

#lifehacks (this one is recycled from Twitter)

Express a religious longing as mental illness, then as identity politics.

March 05, 2013

“Other”: Gay Subtlety

blogs: ...The reason I’m even commenting on these brief flashes of “unawareness” or whatever-it-is, of...

February 2013

February 24, 2013

“An awful loss, a beautiful life, a daunting task”: Tim Carney

writes: Daily saving the life of an immobile kid with a fatal disease raises some...

February 18, 2013

“Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me”

Two versions: Bifrost Arts; and the Roberta Martin Singers. Ultimately via... With Rue My Heart...

February 08, 2013

What Questions Should Christians Really Be Asking About Homosexuality?

Odd Man Out has a really good post: Christians are getting better at talking about...

December 2012

December 20, 2012

“Bonhoeffer’s Argument Against Religious Blackmail”

Wesley Hill: Bonhoeffer suggests, contra Stendahl, that if we’re really to preach about the sin...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

“My Side of the Confessional: What Is It Like for a Priest?”

Intense, lots of good stuff here.

November 23, 2012

“Last Minute Banquet”

delicious, delicious parables: If the stuff that is in the Bible isn't true, if it...

November 15, 2012

For those who want to start their Christmas shopping

why not some bath & body stuff from Thistle Farms? Welcome to Magdalene/Thistle Farms. We...

November 02, 2012

From today’s readings

for All Souls Day: The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

“To come first for someone”

Another post about questions I got on my speaking tour. One man asked about something...

October 25, 2012

From Denise Levertov, “To Live in the Mercy of God”

Such passion— rage or joy? Thus, not mild, not temperate, God’s love for the world....

October 03, 2012

Confirming all my suspicions: Oscar Wilde edition

The less you care about the Crucifixion, the less I will gain from your reading...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

“A Child’s Garden of Sacrifice”

You should be reading your kids Oscar Wilde.

September 11, 2012

The two halves of my message on Gay Catholic Whatnot

It's genuinely hard to say both "Die to self" and "live in Christ," to focus...