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Chris Damian
Jan 1, 2020
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Art, creativity, and writing

  • The blasphemous George Floyd icon

  • Bly Manor, ghost stories, and contemporary culture

  • The creative writing workshop

  • Don’t Look Up and the Greek classics

  • Have I been blacklisted?

  • Hope and the imagination (Together in Hope in Norway)

  • Jungle Cruise, Luca, and Christian movie reviewers

  • ‘Merely entertaining’ and a theology of the body

  • The Nazi Drawings

  • Ukrainian choir, Ukrainian liturgy

  • What I’m watching: sexism and its perpetrators

  • Writing memoir

Books

  • Advent: The Once & Future Coming of Christ by Fleming Rutledge

  • Charles Baxter’s The Sun Collective

  • Gender Identity & Faith

  • The Genesis of Gender: A review

  • God’s nets

  • The Shakespeare Requirement: a review

  • Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear

  • Catholic priests and medical misinformation

  • On lawful Elisabet

  • Prayers for Ukraine, and Tolstoy

  • The USCCB wouldn’t let me share the Catechism

COVID

  • Catholic priests and medical misinformation

  • In a pandemic, who gets to complain the loudest?

  • The conspiratorial Cardinal

  • The State and the disobedient Christian

  • Too Hot to Handle

  • With a crisis comes (Catholic) superstition

  • Why you should skip Mass

Clergy abuse crisis

  • Ban abuse survivors from seminary

  • Banning gay seminarians won’t end gay priests

  • “Bishop Barron wasn’t involved”

  • Can good Catholics report priests to the police?

  • Catholic priest: you can keep your job if you get married next month

  • Catholicism and conversion therapy: a recorded conversation with Christopher Dowling (part 1)

  • Catholicism and conversion therapy: a recorded conversation with Christopher Dowling (part 2)

  • Catholicism needs trauma-informed responses to sexual abuse

  • Celebrity conversions

  • Clergy abuse, diocesan response, and moral duplicity

  • Clerical transparency vs. ‘coming out’

  • Heterosexual clergy who touch other men

  • Homosexuality and the clergy abuse crisis: an overview

  • How chastity enables sexual violence

  • How spiritual manipulation works

  • On institutional abuse: creating the paper trail

  • Lessons from a survivor of clergy abuse

  • My diocese’s seminarians went through conversion therapy, and didn’t know it

  • NET Ministries

  • Our Archdiocesan Synod’s missed opportunities

  • A priest’s seduction

  • Rape, manipulation, and loss of faith and ‘faithful’ Catholic college

  • Responding to the clergy abuse crisis: how a law background influenced a local response

  • Scandal, the abuse crisis, and and unmarried pregnant women in Catholic schools

  • Sex, power, and the Church

  • Sexual misconduct and employee intimidation at Word on Fire

  • Unmarried, pregnant, Catholic school teacher

  • Victims, perpetrators, and the perspective of the Church

  • Weigel, Courage, and McCarrick: Let’s get real

  • What do you mean ‘crisis’? We have (at least) three

  • What if McCarrick wasn’t gay?

Conservatism

  • A conservative consideration of #BlackLivesMatter

  • Discourse on colonialism and conservatism

  • In what ways am I “conservative”?

  • “Living the Truth in Love”: A response

Critical Race Theory, race, and racism

  • Anti-racism and my pro-life vote

  • Cementing racism in a local Catholic parish

  • Are the criticisms of Simone Biles racist?

  • A conservative consideration of #BlackLivesMatter

  • Discourse on colonialism and conservatism

  • Gay Catholic disclosure as civil disobedience

  • I’m a brown homeowner in a racially segregated city

  • The impact of speaking out

  • Is it okay to be white?

  • Learning about racism, as an act of love

  • On material racism (a primer)

  • Our Archdiocesan Synod’s missed opportunities

  • Racism in review: a look at 68 homilies in my Archdiocese

  • Racism, reconstruction, and the end of a Catholic instagram account

  • Rethinking religion in professional life

  • The State and the disobedient Christian

  • Thanksgiving? Or Day of Mourning?

  • Victims, perpetrators, and the perspective of the Church

  • What is ‘revisionist history’?

  • Whiteness as property

  • Why I left the law firm life: a letter to my former boss

  • Why objections to defunding the police can be racist

  • Why we still need diversity programs

Eros, desire, and sexuality

  • Birth through the Cross: eros, asceticism, and Francis of Assisi

  • Contra ‘traditional marriage’: disentangling friendship from the Catholic marital union

  • Freud, Aristotle, and the non-rational soul

  • How chastity enables sexual violence

  • I’ve angered Catholic Twitter: NFP and Putin

  • Love and friendship

  • An NFP nightmare

  • Orthodox second (and third) marriage

  • Queer imaginings: hedonism, asceticism, and the transformation of desire

  • Ralph McInerny and the gift of celibacy

  • Rethinking sin and chastity

  • Sex, power, and the Church

  • What if McCarrick wasn’t gay?

  • What is “sexuality”?

  • What we get wrong about chastity

  • When masturbation isn’t about “inordinate sexual desire”

Faith and spiritual life

  • Advent: The Once & Future Coming of Christ by Fleming Rutledge

  • Bad faith, litmus tests, and critiques of the Church

  • Celebrity conversions

  • Christianese: “God put on my heart…”

  • Deconstruction

  • From atheist to ashes

  • A gay Catholic who loves the Extraordinary Form

  • God’s nets

  • Hope and the imagination

  • How spiritual manipulation works

  • In search of new orthodoxies

  • I’ve angered Catholic Twitter: NFP and Putin

  • Catholic orthodoxy and staying Catholic

  • On lawful Elisabet

  • Original sin and Islamaphobia

  • Our Archdiocesan Synod’s missed opportunities

  • Power goes to the unclean: Sarah Ruden translates the Gospels

  • Racism, reconstruction, and the end of a Catholic instagram account

  • Rethinking religion in professional life

  • The State and the disobedient Christian

  • Survivorship bias and the disaffiliated

  • Why remain Catholic: responses

  • Why remain Catholic: the talk

  • The Traditional Latin Mass

  • Updated considerations on Christian doctrine

Friendship and community

  • Contra ‘traditional marriage’: disentangling friendship from the Catholic marital union

  • Love and friendship

  • On shitty friendships

  • Where do we put sleeping homeless people?

Gender, etc.

  • Catechesis, Policy, and “Gender Theory” in Milwaukee: An Informal Commentary

  • Gender and charity

  • Gender and otherness

  • Gender Identity & Faith

  • The Genesis of Gender: A review

  • James Heaney on gender identity

  • Love Thy Neighbor: Elizabeth Anscombe, Queer Identities, and What it Means to Believe Someone

  • What I’m watching: sexism and its perpetrators

  • Why Catholic arguments about trans persons don’t work

  • Why would canon lawyers support “preferred pronouns”?

Home

  • The feminist’s bathroom

  • To eavesdrop is human

  • Zoom accessibility

Law and Politics

  • Academia, entertainment, activism, and social change

  • “Bishop Barron wasn’t involved”

  • Brief thoughts on the Rittenhouse verdict

  • Eavesdropping on the collapse of “religious liberty”

  • Eviction “relief” delays homelessness, rather than prevents it

  • LGBTQ+ discrimination and religious liberty law

  • Scandal, the abuse crisis, and and unmarried pregnant women in Catholic schools

  • The State and the disobedient Christian

  • The USCCB wouldn’t let me share the Catechism

  • Why we still need diversity programs

LGBTQ+: conversion therapy and ex-gay stuff

  • Catholic promotion of conversion therapy: the list

  • Catholicism and conversion therapy: a recorded conversation with Christopher Dowling (part 1)

  • Catholicism and conversion therapy: a recorded conversation with Christopher Dowling (part 2)

  • Catholicism and conversion therapy: key names

  • On the father of conversion therapy: a recorded conversation with Scott Herr

  • Getting to the root of conversion therapy

  • Love Thy Neighbor: Elizabeth Anscombe, Queer Identities, and What it Means to Believe Someone

  • My diocese’s seminarians went through conversion therapy, and didn’t know it

  • ToB Catholics primed me to reject the Church’s approach to homosexuality

LGBTQ+ relationships

  • The blessing of “same-sex unions”

  • The CDF moves towards affirming same-sex relationships

  • Failed formation: Archbishop Naumann’s response to a gay couple

  • Gay Catholic dating: sin or heartbreak

  • I have a boyfriend. Want to talk about it?

  • Love and friendship

  • Why call it dating?

LGBTQ+ violence, silencing, and discrimination

  • Banning gay seminarians won’t end gay priests

  • Clerical transparency vs. ‘coming out’

  • Gay Catholic disclosure as civil disobedience

  • I almost worked for the Holy See: a gay Catholic’s response to discrimination

  • I was threatened because of my sexuality

  • LGBTQ+ discrimination and religious liberty law

  • Victims, perpetrators, and the perspective of the Church

  • When the liberals come for the Church, and changing fears of violence

LGBTQ+ misc.

  • Chaput, Martin, and Catholics who use bad logic

  • Contra ‘traditional marriage’: disentangling friendship from the Catholic marital union

  • Gay Christian conversations: is it time to leave behind “side a” and “side b”?

  • Is Courage International good or bad?

  • My discussion with ReConstructing Catholic

  • Eating disorders, objective disorder, and gay in the Church

  • Freud and Courage International

  • Homosexuality and the clergy abuse crisis: an overview

  • Is the catechism homophobic?

  • LGBTQ+ history: Catholic opposition to the Briggs Initiative

  • “Living the Truth in Love”: A response

  • My parents’ friends who died of AIDS

  • The Pillar controversy: a list of problems

  • On pride purity

  • A priest’s seduction

  • Priests and double lives

  • On Natural Law errors

  • On pride purity

  • On shitty friendships

  • On victimhood

  • Our Archdiocesan Synod’s missed opportunities

  • Patriarch Kirill, litmus tests, and gay parades

  • Stop being ‘celibate,’ stop apologizing

  • Stop calling out homophobes

  • Survivorship bias and the disaffiliated

  • ToB Catholics primed me to reject the Church’s approach to homosexuality

  • Queer imaginings: hedonism, asceticism, and the transformation of desire

  • Weigel, Courage, and McCarrick: Let’s get real

  • What good does a good need?

  • What if McCarrick wasn’t gay?

  • When gay people are told to walk

Liberal arts and the intellectual life

  • Academia, entertainment, activism, and social change

  • Contra academic publishing

  • Ways of knowing: can reporters be ‘objective’?

  • The intellectual life outside of academia

  • The nature of our disagreements

  • Why your bishop didn’t read Aquinas

  • To Win as Notre Dame

Misc

  • A look back on 2021

  • On being second choice

  • How to sleep in an airport

  • NET Ministries

  • No more trigger warnings?

  • On trolls

  • The rape that made Theranos

  • Why poor people don’t save

Natural law and virtue ethics

  • Freud and Courage International

  • Freud, Aristotle, and the non-rational soul

  • Is the catechism homophobic?

  • Jane the Virgin (and the telenovela’s contribution to virtue ethics)

  • Parish priests, stock traders, and their limited moral reasoning

  • On Natural Law errors

  • Orthodox second (and third) marriage

  • Queer imaginings: hedonism, asceticism, and the transformation of desire

  • What good does a good need?

  • When masturbation isn’t about “inordinate sexual desire”

  • Why Catholic arguments about trans persons don’t work

  • Why Christian apologists give such bad advice

Talks and recorded conversations

  • Unmarried, pregnant, Catholic school teacher

  • Catholic priest: you can keep your job if you get married next month

  • Love Thy Neighbor: Elizabeth Anscombe, Queer Identities, and What it Means to Believe Someone

  • My discussion with ReConstructing Catholic

  • On the father of conversion therapy: a recorded conversation with Scott Herr

  • Catholicism and conversion therapy: a recorded conversation with Christopher Dowling (part 2)

  • Conversion therapy and Catholicism: a conversation with Christopher Dowling (part one)

  • Why remain Catholic?

  • Responding to the clergy abuse crisis: how a law background influenced a local response

  • Birth through the Cross: eros, asceticism, and Francis of Assisi

Word on Fire

  • Sexual misconduct and employee intimidation at Word on Fire

  • The Word on Fire piece: FAQs

  • Misogyny at Word on Fire

  • More words on fire: an ex-employee’s statement

  • On the value of professional Catholic communications: a case study

  • Renewing Word on Fire: a list for change

  • How chastity enables sexual violence

  • “Bishop Barron wasn’t involved”

  • Word on Fire on Fire

  • Celebrity conversions

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