reports: The first time I wrote about Alstory Simon, then a Milwaukee north sider, was in 1999, right after he confessed to a double murder in Chicago. Simon’s shocking admission — not to police but to an investigator working for Northwestern University’s Medill Innocence Project — led to the release and pardon of a man on death row for the crime, and ultimately to the death penalty being abolished in Illinois. Two years later, I wrote about Simon again. This... Read more
You’ll have to put up with some technical glitches. Pretend that we’re a slightly scratched record from that used-books-and-music shop you visit in your dreams. Libresco’s post; also wow, my facial expressions are ridiculous. I look like I’m made of Silly Putty. Read more
imitates a laser gun. Glorious. via Andrew Sullivan. Read more
enjoy! AQC: Now that your book is out on shelves, what book or books do you think are still missing from the conversation? What are some of the books on LGBT people in the Church that you’d love to see a different author write? ET: There are so many more books to be written! There’s a whole book to be done about celibacy in partnership. There should be a book directed more toward pastors, spiritual directors, counselors etc. There should be... Read more
Over the past couple weeks I’ve had a lot of opportunities to hang out with lgbt Christians who accept and strive to follow the historical Christian sexual ethic. It’s been a great chance to see the diversity of our community. But we also have a lot in common; and one depressing thing many of us turned out to have in common was experience of discrimination due to our sexual orientation. I admit I was surprised to learn just how many... Read more
Finished it and flipped back to the very first page. Hugely tempted to just go in for an immediate re-read. It’s an engrossing, brutal book. I found the first 100 pages or so a really mixed bag–my one real criticism is that the book itself sometimes seems… bewildered and amused?… by the existence of people who aren’t white. There are definitely exceptions. The Hugs Not Drugs/”shit down your neck” scene is fantastic, and feels real, or rather feels exaggerated in... Read more
Any article bringing more attention to Don Colacho is an article I want you to read: …If conservatives are characterized by nostalgia, reactionaries are characterized by decadence. Conservatives build networks and speak in sound bites; reactionaries build mausoleums and speak in epitaphs. Reactionaries are aesthetic rather than practical thinkers. They play alongside, if not across, the border of tragedy and fatalism. Civil debate is meaningless to the side that has already lost. more Read more
I have another opportunity to use my “eye-boobs” tag. see the calamities! (via Libresco) Read more
I noted a while ago that there’s nothing about celibate partnerships in my book because when I wrote it I didn’t know anyone living that vocation. I’ve been trying to learn more, and one question I gnawed on for a while was the question of what made a celibate partnership different from a devoted and/or vowed friendship. On the one hand I did have the knee-jerk reaction of, “Isn’t this the same thing as friendship?”, but on the other hand,... Read more
a post with lots to say about political praxis as well as, you know, gouging the families of prisoners: …There is a salutary purpose to be served by people like Henson, who believe that good government can offer valuable solutions to vexing problems. The positive wishes for new ideas provide a force that drives innovations that do, in many instances, make things better than they were before. Even if they don’t turn out perfectly, or as well as hoped, they can... Read more
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