LGBTQ history: Catholic opposition to the Briggs Initiative
The defense of gay teachers is an important part of American Catholic history.
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On shitty friendships
“Lately I’ve been imagining a life of showing up for others, celebrating them, when they reach certain milestones. And then those people never showing up to celebrate mine.”
On Pride Purity
“If you are going to a church that is not actively putting in the work to understand and affirm Queerness, you are not an ally.”
When masturbation isn’t about “inordinate sexual desire”
An excess or deficiency in one arena can bring about vice in another. And a focus on sexual desire-as-excess can hide this fact.
Why Christian apologists give such bad advice
They’ve severely underestimated the extent to which moral failures can be attributed to failures of imagination.
LGBTQ Discrimination and Religious Freedom Seminar: Sign Up Now!
We’ll learn about and discuss religious freedom and LGBTQ discrimination in Catholic Social Teaching, USCCB legal briefings, and American law.
In What Ways am I a Conservative?
Conservative does not just mean “pro-life.”
The Capitol “Plan,” the “Liberal Media,” and the “Christian truth”
There was no “plan.” Those inciting violence didn’t need one, and they knew it.
Another response, as Christians continue to defend Trump
I understand that this may be uncomfortable for you as someone who has so vocally supported Trump.
5 Ways I’ve Seen Christians Respond to Yesterday’s Insurrection
Those people erected both a cross and a noose outside the Capitol building, seeming to suggest: we Christians will lynch you.
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