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Finding New Ways Beyond Shame and Honor

To encounter today’s Gospel, we need to recognize that these systems in which we dwell are based on the practice of honor and shame. Read More

On Synodality and Awakening

Are we awake? Is the Church awake? Is the Church a foolish bridesmaid or a wise one? Read More

Be Cautious in Trusting Secular ‘Kings’

This issue has been a tangled mess for us in the queer segment of the population. Difficulties arise from both the “wall of separation” and from the “inherently intertwined” points of view. Read More

“You Have Made Them Equal to Us”

God’s ways, however, are different from our human ways. Much to our shock and horror, God insists on everyone being treated truly as equals. Read More

A “Key to the Kingdom” for Queer Liberation

Too many LGBTQ individuals have felt so bound by the judgements of the Church that they do not dare approach God. Read More

A House of Prayer for ALL Peoples

It is not hard to make the leap from the Canaanite Foreigner to those of us who identify as LGBTQIA+. Read More

Sweat the Small Stuff

These small steps are easy to sneer at as performative or vacuous, and they can be without ongoing learning and change. But more so they are little hints of divine queer futurity, signs of another possible world. Read More

Treasures Hidden in LGBTQ+ Lives

To LGBTQ+ Catholics, the presence of God is the treasure hidden in the field of your own life. I, and we all, need your buried treasures. Read More

We Must Sow LGBTQ+ Seeds in the Synod, Even When Most Fail

Yet, the bulk of the parable and Jesus' explanation is not actually about the apparent heroes, the seeds in rich soil. Instead, more attention is paid to the failures. Three-quarters of the seeds cast out by the parable's sower simply died. But this is not about failure. Read More

Are Queer Catholics Reading the Same Scripture as Some Church Leaders?

As a queer Catholic, sometimes I sit in Mass and wonder if our church leaders are reading the same scripture that I am. Today’s readings are one of those moments. Read More