Post Index

My index of posts and topics discussed here!

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