It’s ok to be wounded on Easter
A part of me wants to believe that the Resurrection means an erasure of all of the ways I have wronged and been wrong.
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Benedict and the Crisis: What does theologizing have to do with the abuse of children?
When children are being raped by priests, why should we care whether theologians focus on a morality grounded in Greek philosophy or a pragmatic theology that exclusively utilizes Scriptural texts?
Book Review: Kiese Laymon’s Heavy
Kiese centers his narrative on bodies: black bodies, heavy bodies, the body of his mother, and the body of her son.
I Tell You for Mercy
For a gay man to offer the Church anything other than anger is to go beyond the realm of justice.
On the value of queer writers
Don’t just ask us to be your token, or to speak out “as the gay person.” Just ask us to speak.
Book Review: Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
One thing I learned from Chee: no honest writer can simply write “what happened.” Especially diving into his later essays,Continue Reading
Book Review: Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know
Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know is perhaps the most understated memoir I’ve read thus far. But that doesn’tContinue Reading
In The Atlantic: Parents Respond to the Clergy Abuse Crisis
“There’s no way I would let my child be an altar server.”
The Death of Objective Morality
Reliance upon “objective morality” is just as much a practice of our pride as it is our submission to anything outside of ourselves.
Communication of Truth
The truth will endure, whether or not I agree with it (or anyone else does).
Chris Damian 