The Aventura’s low driver’s seat and huge windshield afford your thinking man maybe a little more view of the sky than he’d like. The sky is low and gray and loose and seems to hang. There’s something baggy about the sky. It’s impossible to tell whether snow is actually still falling or whether just a little snow that’s already fallen is blowing around. Read more
just a touch late for Columbus Day: Few art forms are as self-consciously nostalgic as the platinum photograph. The Instagram filter of its day, platinum printing was used at the end of the 19th century to convey a stylized, distant past. The velvety blacks and glowing whites could make an image’s textures feel soft and enclosed, liquid, no longer entirely real. Some of the most famous images of American Indians were made using this process. If you picture a stern... Read more
based solely on the relatio so far since I wrote this early this morning. Gotta do Russian homework but will read the other stuff coming out of the Synod asap. I am but a hamster in the whirling news cycle. Obviously the “relatio” is not official Church doctrine etc etc etc, and I have no idea how much it even reflects the conversations and thinking of the bishops. I tend to expect the worst from them; put not your trust... Read more
Of course–the Crocodiles dig at each other with their knobby elbows and guffaw and wheeze–they say when they tell Gately to either Hang In AA and get rabidly Active or else die in slime of course it’s only a suggestion. Read more
You know you want it: via some guy on Twitter Read more
Hello! I’m cheating here and basically just writing up my notes from the talk I gave at the Trinity School for Ministry conference this past weekend. (All the sessions will be available–some as video, some as podcast–and I’m super looking forward to listening to the sessions I missed, e.g. Melinda Selmys exploring transgender identity through the lens of Flannery O’Connor’s “Temple of the Holy Ghost.”) This topic is obviously especially relevant given the buzz around “gradualism” at the Synod. I... Read more
Beautiful. Via Walter Olson. Read more
Arm out like a hack’s arm, Gately blasts through B.U. country. As in backpack and personal-stereo and designer-fatigues country. Soft-faced boys with backpacks and high hard hair and seamless foreheads. Totally lineless untroubled foreheads like cream cheese or ironed sheets. All the storefronts here are for clothes or TP cartridges or posters. Gately’s had lines in his big forehead since he was about twelve. It’s here he especially likes making people throw their packages in the air and dive for... Read more
by Liliana Segura: On a snowy evening in late March, just over a year after walking out of prison, where he had spent 23 years for a crime he didn’t commit, William Lopez entered a CVS in the Bronx and did something inexplicable. After paying for a prescription at the pharmacy counter, he paused to grab some other things—two sticks of Old Spice deodorant and some allergy medicine. Then, without paying, and in full view of a security guard, he... Read more
I’ve heard this claim a few times–don’t feel like rounding up links, hope you will trust me!–and it’s an understandable concern. “Ex-gay” groups have lost a lot of credibility lately; the largest ex-gay ministry, Exodus International, shut its doors last year and its president issued an apology for the harm it had caused. So it’s natural to wonder whether the many problems of the ex-gay movement would go undercover, and reemerge in some new disguise. Meanwhile celibate lgbt Christians are... Read more
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