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September 2015

September 29, 2015

“Always Consider the Person”: Homosexuality at the World Meeting of Families–This Is Less Boring Than It Sounds

(sorry--ANYWAY this is the transcript of the presentation by Ron Belgau and his mom): ...I...

September 26, 2015

“Gay Catholics and Spiritual Friendship”: Catholic News Service

video, with me & Ron Belgau:

September 24, 2015

Slate Interviews Ron Belgau aka That Gay Dude at the World Meeting of Families

(that one.) Last section was the most powerful for me, but here's an earlier bit:...

September 24, 2015

“Can You Be Catholic and Gay? These Young Churchgoers Weigh In”: Fusion Media

w/Jorge Ramos: “Can you be a gay man, a lesbian, or a transgender person, and...

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 09, 2015

Take Me to Church–But Not the Ones that Hurt: Starting a Book Project

Hey y'all. This is all in the very, very first stages, but I'm talking with...

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...

September 01, 2015

Wesley Hill: “Eve Tushnet’s Spirituality of Humiliation”

a super-neat piece that connects my new novel to some themes in my nonfiction writing:...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

An Interview w/Kelley Cutler on LGBT Youth Homelessness

which also includes her conversion story, and this powerful bit: As a convert, I have...

August 10, 2015

St Petersburg Graffiti: Gagarin’s Pascha

Powerful. Via IP.

July 2015

July 23, 2015

“The Surprising History of the Catholic Church’s Circus Priests”: The Washington Post

although really, every Catholic priest is a circus, yes? Before I left the center ring...

July 22, 2015

Justin Lee’s Final Post in Our Dialogue on Relationships for Gay Christians

is up: ...Of course, respect does not mean agreement. Eve and I still disagree on...

July 20, 2015

My Final Post in Dialogue w/Justin Lee About Relationships for Gay Christians

here you go: I've greatly appreciated Justin's contributions to this dialogue. I don't expect this...

July 20, 2015

Wesley Hill on Unchosen Sacrifice

and being gay and Christian: ...Julie and I both know that Christian churches and communities...

July 18, 2015

“Religious and Gay: A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue, Part 4”

lol someday I'll post about something else: What have you found interesting about each others’...

July 16, 2015

“Religious and Gay: A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue,” Part 2

posted: What cultural, theological, scriptural, or ritual elements of your faith have you found particularly...

July 15, 2015

What We See: Some Thoughts on Julie Rodgers’s Resignation from Wheaton

Earlier this week Julie Rodgers posted a characteristically forthright and gentle explanation of her shift...

July 15, 2015

The Future of Gay Catholics

I am not the best person to contribute to a symposium on "The Future of...

July 14, 2015

“Religious and Gay, A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue: Part One”

I'm in this! Sometime at church in the past two weeks, local Mormons leaders across...

July 14, 2015

“Thirteen Songs About Forgiveness”: Mockingbird

with some images of how to do it, when you need to: ...Given its origin...

July 12, 2015

“Let’s Talk About Monks, Baby”: More of My Dialogue w/Justin Lee on Relationships for Gay Christians

at Respectful Conversations: I loved a lot of things about Justin's first contribution to this...

July 08, 2015

Melinda Selmys’s Terrific Series on NFP

Just really important for people who care about this stuff. Also adds some complexity to...

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...

July 02, 2015

A Conversation with Justin Lee on Relationships for Gay and Same-Sex Attracted Christians

this is my first answer: The question we've been given is, “What are your beliefs...

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 24, 2015

Philadelphia Brought You a Startlingly Good Articulation of Catholic Teaching on Marriage, Vocation, And Family, And Now…

they're offering a web seminar on the same topics. Chris Roberts, author of the excellent...

June 22, 2015

“A Most Misunderstood Saint”: Fr James Martin, SJ on St Aloysius Gonzaga

book excerpt: June 21 is the Feast Day of one of the most misunderstood saints...

June 12, 2015

Corpus Christi Weirdness and Beauty Around the World

Today is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus so we're still celebrating, I...

June 07, 2015

Three Corpus Christi Links: Staying Catholic, Seeing Christ, And Ye Olde Romoeroticism

PEG says some stuff I can really relate to: “Where would we go? You have...

May 2015

May 31, 2015

Where Are the Lady Mountain Goats?

A cri de coeur! Where are the women who write weird, metaphor-laden personal songs about...