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December 2019

December 11, 2019

From Mercy to Delight: Wes Hill’s “The Lord’s Prayer: A Guide to Praying to Our Father”

My first Advent book was this slender volume of reflections on the various phrases of...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

“Beyond Religious Life and Marriage”: My Epic Piece for “America” on Nonmarital Christian Kinship

in some of its many forms: Tim Otto found the Church of the Sojourners in...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

“If the Church Were a Haven”: Wesley Hill

at First Things: Or I think of a story I’ve heard Shane Claiborne recount, in...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Reading, ‘Riting and Repentance: Some Notes from the Festival of Faith and Writing

at Calvin College. This was a blast, guys. Here are some semi-cleaned-up excerpts from my...

April 01, 2016

“The Consolations of Friendship”: Intriguing Theological Exploration

by Wesley Hill: ...Perhaps this is at the heart of why Christians came to celebrate...

February 2016

February 27, 2016

“Who Are the Gay Evangelicals?”: Molly Worthen

in the NY Times: ...Exodus’s collapse was a media spectacle. It was a huge blow...

February 02, 2016

“Meet the Gay Christians Who Are Swearing Off Sex”: Two Dudes You May Already Know And One You Might Not

Mic.com quotes Ron Belgau and Wesley Hill, who may already be familiar to my readers;...

September 2015

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:...

July 2015

July 20, 2015

Wesley Hill on Unchosen Sacrifice

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

June 2015

June 27, 2015

A Few Gay Marriage Links I Like (And One Straight Link About Gay Marriage)

You can hear echoes of these posts in my Lava thing--several of us working similar...

May 2015

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 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...

April 2015

April 20, 2015

“No Marriage Is an Island”: I’m at AmCon

riffing on the relevance of a book about gay celibacy for people who are neither...

April 15, 2015

Two Links About Wesley Hill’s Fabulous New Book “Spiritual Friendship”

Oh so much more on this book from me coming soon! First, Wes is interviewed...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

“The Gay Catholic Writer Who Changed My Life”: Wesley Hill

gives a super-kind review of my book for Christianity Today: ...Tushnet is a gay Catholic...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

Honoring Friendship on St Aelred’s Feast Day

...which I totally missed. But there's always next year (if the Messiah tarries): I don’t...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

A Couple Best-Of Lists from Wesley Hill and Helen Andrews

Hill: ...I write often about the consolations of friendship, hospitality, and Christian community, but sometimes...

December 02, 2014

Listen to an Interview with Wesley Hill and Me

With Beyond Words Radio. We delve into our conversion/deepening of faith stories, reparative therapy, and...

December 02, 2014

From the Letters of St Gregory of Nazianzus to St Basil

What I wrote before about our stay in Pontus was in joke, not in earnest;...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

“Gay in Christ: Dimensions of Fidelity”: Notes from Day One

I'm procrastinating from finishing my own presentation by writing up my super-scattered notes from the...

October 04, 2014

“Are ‘Vowed Friendships’ Really What We Need?”: Wesley Hill

rounds up some links. Comments also worth reading; I'm most sympathetic to the first comment,...

March 2014

March 06, 2014

In Defense of Wasting Your Life

Speaking of contradictory truths... I often tell this story when I talk: A couple of...

March 06, 2014

Four Thoughts on Gay Catholic Whatnot

Overall, I loved Level Ground. By the end I was finally tired of yapping about...

February 2014

February 12, 2014

The Prison of My Person, The Shackles of My Skin

Wesley Hill quotes some powerful words from CS Lewis on masturbation and lustful fantasy: For...

February 04, 2014

“Making God’s House Into a Home: An Interview w/Spiritual Friendship’s Wesley Hill”

woot! ...I wrote that book when I was in my mid-twenties. Like a lot of...

December 2013

December 14, 2013

Wesley Hill’s 2013 best-of books list

For your delectation: I taught a course on Christology last spring, and in preparation I...

December 02, 2013

Wesley Hill Speaking on Spiritual Friendship at Biola University

friendship, gay Christian life, & the challenges for churches. The comments to this post are...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

He Treats the Bible Like It’s Some Kind of Gospel Truth!: A Couple Scattered Thoughts

on Wesley Hill's review of Christian Smith's new book, a book I 100% haven't read...

October 2013

October 11, 2013

“The Specificities of Friendship”: Wesley Hill

asks for your help: ...There’s a certain irony, of course, about pursuing friendship, since, as...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

“Odd-Numbered Hospitality”: Wesley Hill

writes: ...What strikes me, in retrospect, is how easy it would have been for her...