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May 2018

May 15, 2018

Catherine Addington on the Limited Imagination of the Met Gala

and the broadness of actual Catholic tradition: But given this year’s theme, the limited gender...

February 2018

February 17, 2018

By His Stripes We Are Healed: Re-reading St Anselm’s “Cur Deus Homo”

>In my project of revisiting my past in prayer, I've reached 1998, the year of...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

Some Notes re: Fr. James Martin (And the Relevance of Orthodox Gay Experience)

So first of all, Christians should not treat one another with contempt, and contempt isn't...

September 07, 2017

Abnormal Beauties: Short horror reviews (films and book)

I recently got to live out a childhood dream. My best friend sent me to...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

Mourning and Weeping in this Valley of Brunch

Last week I did a speaking engagement in New York, on the topic, "Christianity Is...

February 2017

February 02, 2017

“The Queen of Bliss and of Beauty”: A Candlemas Carol

I'm telling you, ClerkOfOxford is twitter mvp. Follow her! February 2 is Candlemas, the Feast...

November 2016

November 12, 2016

“Cocktail Theology”: William Dailey

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

September 2016

September 26, 2016

All Theology Is Prison Theology: A Couple of Links

A little while ago I used a Michigan case about videoconference sentencing to explore the...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

“Ecstatic Dance”: I review “The Fits,” A Stunning Film

review at First Things: Anna Rose Holmer's extraordinary new film The Fits begins with a...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

“Art Matters, Even When You’re Poor”: Alison Stine

in The Nation--this is short and powerful all the way through: ...Not long ago, in...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

Amy Welborn on Church Art, Devotions, And Sacramentals as Works of Mercy

with a powerful story of grief and the Stations of the Cross: ...So, yes, mercy....

February 03, 2016

“Farewell, Christmas fair and free!”: A Candlemas Carol

beautiful: February 2 is Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification, so here's a medieval Candlemas...

December 2015

December 20, 2015

“The Sinner Teodora” Takes Viewers Inside a Romanian Women’s Monastery

Last night I watched "Pacatoasa Teodora" (The Sinner Teodora), an elliptical documentary by director Anca...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

“How This Tree Growing 40 Different Fruits at Once Was Made”: io9

overlooks the obvious explanation: This tree growing 40 different types of fruit—including varieties of peaches,...

June 2015

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...

May 2015

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...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

A Church Shot Through with Light

Gorgeous pictures. Not a working church, I think, more of an idea, but still. Via...

January 2015

January 03, 2015

Fra Angelico and the Sex-Hating Church

A really rambling post. Now that my book is out I've been doing a lot...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

“How Should Secular People Approach Sacred Art?”: The Best Essay of Its Kind

I've read a ton of these and Pelagia Horgan's appreciation of Fra Angelico is the...

November 2014

November 15, 2014

“QUIZ: Modernist Church or Communist Building?”

Ooh, this is gonna sting. Via the Rattus.

October 2014

October 05, 2014

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A “Gay and Catholic” DVD Extra

This is the post about "possibilities for publicly honoring nonmarital sacrificial love," and there are...

September 2014

September 06, 2014

Art as a Vocation: Gay and Catholic Book Extra!

What do we want? Eve's book! When do we want it? ...Soon! (Preorder now; it...

June 2014

June 22, 2014

I Am a Lonely City: Xiao Yang’s “Love Letter”

Some of these images are terrific. (via Jesse Walker I think?)

June 17, 2014

“Geishas by Gaslight”: I review a show at the Freer

for AmCon: The Freer Gallery named their show of wood-block prints by fin de siecle...

May 2014

May 06, 2014

Cherry Blossom Season in Japan

Some luminous photos. Via Ratty.

April 2014

April 25, 2014

The Mask of Obedience

Last year I wrote this really scattershot, unsatisfying post about "The Beauty of Obedience," rescuing...

March 2014

March 24, 2014

“Flying Camels, Butterflies, And Twizzles”: In Which I am a Sports Correspondent

for the American Spectator: In early January, I attend my very first professional sports competition....

March 13, 2014

“Coming Out Catholic: The Movie”: Me at AmCon

on a truly excellent film: At the Level Ground film festival the other weekend, I...

March 08, 2014

The Martyrs’ Rose

Given my whole thing with roses, you know I had to link you to this.

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Treebisons, Brickchildren

Some really striking, lovely, vivid sculpture from Ellen Jewett [image removed but it's great, trust...