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February 2015

February 04, 2015

Love and Real Estate, All About Location, Location Location

The best living experience I've had was definitely in college. The density of people...

November 2014

November 25, 2014

“Safety” is a Piss-Poor Pitch for Chastity

A recent First Things post aimed to arm its readers with a positive case for chastity, one...

November 18, 2014

“It is Not Good for Man to be Alone” – a review of Gay and Catholic

A few weeks ago, our Dominican-run Adult Sunday School tackled the topic of "Deadly Sins...

November 12, 2014

Interviewing Eve Tushnet on Vocations of Love

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a Q&A with Eve Tushnet, author of Gay...

November 06, 2014

Prelude to a (Platonic) Kiss

Eve Tushnet (whose book is now out, and you don't need to stand on ceremony...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Writing Relationships into a Corner

Earlier this week, I was chatting with a friend about A.O. Scott's big piece on...

September 2014

September 14, 2014

The Loves We Need From Other People

Apropos of our discussion of friendship, romance, and the very confusing boundaries and barriers between...

September 11, 2014

Nice Guys, Conjoined Twins, and Starving for Love

I want to return to one specific point made in the Ben Conroy piece on...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

Lukewarmness is for Zero Sum Games [Pope Francis Bookclub]

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...

August 17, 2014

Why is it So Hard to Find New Friends?

I wanted to like MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend better...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

A Poisonous Portrait of Partnership

In a coda to my series on Lewis, Sondheim, and friendship, I'm back at The American...

July 28, 2014

Sondheim Symposium on Friendship [Sequence Index]

In the summer of 2014, I reprised my successful Sondheim Symposium birthday party of two...

July 26, 2014

Three Models for Intentional Communities of Friends

This post is one in a series on friendship, explored through the lenses of Stephen...

July 23, 2014

Patterning Friendship on Family

This post is one in a series on friendship, explored through the lenses of Stephen...

July 21, 2014

The Worm at the Heart of the Tower in Merrily We Roll Along

This post is one in a series on friendship, explored through the lenses of Stephen...

June 2014

June 07, 2014

Prominent Platonic Pairings

After writing about the dearth of celebrated platonic friendships, I realized I could think of...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Fear of the Friendzone, Wire Monkeys, and Communion

Why do people have so much contempt for "the Friendzone"? Part of the problem is...

May 18, 2014

A Trans-Atlantic Dating Gap

By playing the clip below, you can get a sense of my level of bafflement...

May 13, 2014

You’ve Got a (Vowed) Friend in Me

A Queer Calling, an excellent blog run by two celibate women living in partnership together,...

August 2010

August 13, 2010

Do we care too much about marriage?

This post is the last in a series on gay marriage. Check out all posts...