Growing up in a conservative evangelical church, the closest I came to understanding queer theology was in narrow, binary terms. Queer theology was theology...
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The recently released declaration “Fiducia Supplicans” has spurred quite the online discourse. With responses ranging from calls for schism to false assertions...
Of all the liturgical seasons, Advent is my favorite. I love its sense of expectation, that image of God coming as a light in the darkness, which so resonates...
On a brisk winter day in the Kingdom of Sicily, around the year 1250, two young men made a journey to the Shrine of Montevergine. The local villagers, seeing...
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love.”(1 John...
This World Youth Day, I went with a group of pilgrims that waved a pride flag amid a sea of nation flags. I was part of a group of eight people who went to...
Robert Harris is a 33-year-old Black, queer Catholic in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He came to Catholicism at 14, around the time he began developing an awareness of...
I am not the most bible-literate minister. I can’t rattle off many verses by heart; I am living proof of the old joke that Catholics don’t often read their...
And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched the...
“Is God a boy?” my son asked me. He was almost 4 at the time, and he had already determined he was a boy and Mommy was a girl. He’d accepted a basic assumption...
