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May 2015

May 31, 2015

A Clarification on My “You Don’t Have to Grok Natural Law” Shtik

(I'll take any excuse to jam both "grok" and "shtik" into the same headline.) Now...

May 30, 2015

Benedict Option Conclusion: Places in the Heart

This is the final part of my series on Leah Libresco's discussion group on "The...

May 29, 2015

Are You Drinking With Me, Jesus?: Benedict Options and Recovery Communities

This is part of a series on the "Benedict Option." Part one, part two, part...

May 27, 2015

Benedict Option, Part Three: It Takes a Hyattsvillage

One of the neat things about Libresco's "Benedict Option" gathering (for what this actually was,...

May 27, 2015

A Geek Guide to God

Ave Maria Press came up with a terrific logo for Leah Libresco's new book, Arriving...

May 24, 2015

The Benedict Option, Part Two: This Time It’s Personal

Part one aka What the heck is this thing? is here. At Leah's, we discussed...

May 24, 2015

The Benedict Option, Part One: Build a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul

On Friday night I went over to Libresco's to talk about "the Benedict Option" with...

May 23, 2015

“Accidental Stylites”: Libresco on Making Joyful Piety Easier

more on the discussion she describes later, but I really liked her description of her...

May 21, 2015

“Tom Stoppard Plays With God”: I’m in AmCon

reviewing a new play: “The Hard Problem” is Tom Stoppard’s first work for the stage...

May 21, 2015

My Extended Interview with “Owning Our Faith” on Being Gay and Catholic

Not the full interview, but a much longer series of clips: or click here; I...

May 18, 2015

“Gay and Catholic” Book Extra: Two Frameworks for Supporting Weird Vocations

Hey y'all. A couple weeks ago I spoke to the Missio Alliance conference about friendship...

May 12, 2015

Penitence in Easter: Great Post by an Anglican Bishop

...The New Testament suggests that there is nothing more paschal in character, nothing more closely...

May 10, 2015

“Gay & Celibate”: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

profile mostly of Wesley Hill, w/some commentary from others: Wesley Hill is convinced that taking...

May 09, 2015

I’m Interviewed by the Catholic Phoenix

ye podcaste, clique here (I would tell you more but I don't remember what I...

May 07, 2015

“Who Dares to Say That Love Is Like the War?”: A Gay, Catholic Poet in the 20th Century

I don't want to be tokenistic but I'm betting the best way to get you...

May 07, 2015

“Friendship with a Future Tense”: I review Wesley Hill’s great new book

for AmCon: Most of the art and literature of friendship is elegiac. From Montaigne to...

May 06, 2015

Mother, Church: A Gay Catholic Life

This is an interview I did with my friend Peter. I wanted to talk to...

May 06, 2015

“Meet the Gay, Celibate Catholic Who’s Shaking Up the Sexuality Debates”: Jonathan Merritt

interviews me for RNS: A few decades ago, there were basically two options for people who...

May 06, 2015

Neighbors and Strangers: Edward P. Jones’s Tales of Black Catholic D.C.

The title of All Aunt Hagar's Children gives you an idea of one of the...

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...

May 05, 2015

Mercy Seat, “I’ve Got a Feeling”–Gospel-Punk with Gordon Gano

Dept of Things I Found on Wikipedia:

May 05, 2015

“What does it mean to be Catholic?”: Part three of my conversation with Alicia de los Reyes

at Surprising Faith: Alicia: What do you think it means to be Catholic? Your Catholicism...

May 04, 2015

“Detachment in Friendship”: I’m at Spiritual Friendship

with a small post: A while ago I was talking to my spiritual director about...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

“We can’t help ourselves,” part 2: “Why a former Catholic and a current Catholic *don’t* like Catholicism”

Alicia de los Reyes and me: Alicia: You said you love the Church, but you...

April 28, 2015

The Opposite of Anti-Gay Discrimination: What I Said at Steubenville

Hi y'all. Last week I had the chance to speak at the terrific BookMarx bookstore...

April 22, 2015

“You can’t take my conversion and throw it at your friend and hope it works”: Leah Libresco

interviewed in Australia about her new (and excellent) book. I'm in this at the end,...

April 22, 2015

“We can’t help ourselves: Why a former Jewish agnostic and current progressive Christian still like Catholicism”: I’m in this!

Part one of an exchange between me and Alicia de los Reyes at Patheos Progressive...

April 14, 2015

“Metaphors of Brotherhood and Sisterhood”: I’m at Spiritual Friendship

with a short post: This is just a quick post to note that we don’t...

March 2015

March 22, 2015

“Dismantling the Cross”: Patricia Snow on Renewing Honor for Celibacy

This is a fantastic, hard-fought essay. I don't know that every aspect of it works...

March 22, 2015

OOF! Some Thoughts on the “Owning Our Faith” Video on LGBT Catholic Life

A few people have asked why I decided to participate in "Owning Our Faith," and...