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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...

September 2019

September 13, 2019

A Lie Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: Four short movie reviews

The Trouble with Angels: An essentially charming confection from 1966, set in one of those...

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...

July 24, 2019

My Summer of Ice Cube Continues: Two Views of Black Chicago’s Past

I recently revisited the immensely pleasurable 2002 comedy Barbershop, set in pretty much the year...

June 2018

June 18, 2018

Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your…: I review “Hereditary”

(and beat up a bit on The Babadook) There are deaths that liberate a family....

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...

November 2017

November 16, 2017

“What it’s like going to church when you’re homeless”: My piece for America

interview-based, v. small number of people but they said some things you'll want to read:...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

“Save Our Slums”: I read Alan Moore’s JERUSALEM

for Modern Age: Alan Moore lives in the past, and who can blame him? The...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

99 Dreams I Have Had, Every One a Red Heifer: I read “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”

So I finally read Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and in spite of...

April 2017

April 07, 2017

“The Long Years After Failure”: I review “After the Storm”

at AmCon: After the Storm, the latest film from writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda (Maborosi, Nobody Knows),...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Country Darkness: I read “‘Salem’s Lot”

After I finished Alan Moore's hulking tome Jerusalem (of which more presently) I picked up...

December 2016

December 24, 2016

“When the Neighborhood Changes”: Matthew Loftus

covers a lot of ground quickly: [Baltimoreans] have good reason to be afraid. Some places...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Calling Godparents, Lifelong Friends, People Who Have Pledged to Serve Communities, And More!

Hello all. I'm doing a piece for America on what you might call "alternative kinship."...

November 12, 2016

“Cocktail Theology”: William Dailey

at First Things: That brings us to the most important spiritual aspect of cocktail culture:...

August 2016

August 07, 2016

Why Is There a Refugee Olympic Team?: Dara Lind

explains how being a refugee is changing: The Refugee Olympic Team (or #TeamRefugee) is the...

August 05, 2016

“Good Neighboring in an Age of Police Brutality”: Bonnie Kristian

at AmCon--on race, power, being a good neighbor & being a good newcomer: But nuisance...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

“Humiliation and Reconciliation”: I’m at AmCon

as usual I seem to have kept the most important stuff for the last three...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

Nun on the Run: Check out Zach Clark’s great new indie charmer, “Little Sister”

I wrote it up for AmCon: The summary for Zach Clark’s new indie flick Little...

May 2016

May 21, 2016

Masochism, Macbeth, Mayors, Marvel and More: My May Movie… Notes.

Missives? Anyway. The Duke of Burgundy: Lush flick about two butterfly researchers and their dominance

May 06, 2016

Architecture and Human Dignity: Love and Urban Planning

An email from Rosary Abot (this is a glorious name), in response to the person...

April 2016

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...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

“Needing My Neighbor”: Great piece by Matthew Loftus

“I’ve always wanted to help people.” My medical school application essay opened with those words,...

January 2016

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...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

“The End of Hitting Rock Bottom” and My Actual Most-Unpopular Opinion

This is a very good article from the Boston Globe (h/t Maia Szalavitz, whom you...

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...

December 01, 2015

From Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”

Will told me the story of relocating his family to be part of a church...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

My Top 10 Young Adult & Middle-Grade Novels About Drugs and Addiction

at The Fix: The YA addiction novel has become its own mini-industry. Which ones offer...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

“Fragile Unions Like the One That Conceived Me”: Matthew Loftus

on the way two recovering alcoholics' troubled marriage is still bearing fruit, decades after they...

October 19, 2015

Lay Celibacy and Two Kinds of Eschatological Witness

I am all about the clickbait headlines today, people. Anyway, I did a talk recently...