Eve Tushnet
Long before they reached 1st St., N.E., Glynnis found that so much had changed, disappeared, but everything that was important to white people remained. (from the collection All Aunt Hagar’s Children) Read more
Long before they reached 1st St., N.E., Glynnis found that so much had changed, disappeared, but everything that was important to white people remained. (from the collection All Aunt Hagar’s Children) Read more
Alicia de los Reyes and me: Alicia: You said you love the Church, but you don’t necessarily like Catholicism. When I was Catholic, I liked being Catholic, but I didn’t love every aspect of the Church or of going to Mass. What are some aspects you don’t *like* about the Church, but stick with anyway? Eve: Hmm, this is a good question. It’s hard for me to sort out stuff I don’t understand from stuff I dislike (which maybe says not-great... Read more
Hi y’all. Last week I had the chance to speak at the terrific BookMarx bookstore in Steubenville, OH. (“I’m here to do a job, I won’t buy anything. …I’ll just buy like one or two very slender books.” Walked out with a stack of sci-fi, Rumer Godden, and Italian epics. Some men, some men….) I’d been asked to speak on “unjust discrimination” against gay people, a term which comes from the Catechism. This is roughly what I said. I started... Read more
Gorgeous pictures. Not a working church, I think, more of an idea, but still. Via MLY> Read more
interviewed in Australia about her new (and excellent) book. I’m in this at the end, where Libresco says some very kind things: …I think the other thing is that because I came from outside the faith there are lots of things that look weird or look hard to me so I got to explore them in a way that you wouldn’t maybe if you take them for granted. If confession is a natural part of your life – you grew... Read more
Part one of an exchange between me and Alicia de los Reyes at Patheos Progressive Christian. “We can’t help ourselves” is not a bad summary of one part of the gospel (the First Step part), also…. Many of you may know Eve Tushnet from her blog here on Patheos, where she writes about being gay, celibate, and Catholic (along with World Figure Skating Championship costumes and other events of note). Eve grew up “somewhere between agnostic and Jewish” and converted to Catholicism... Read more
Briefly: The Deadly Doll’s House looks at The Taking of Deborah Logan. It’s a spoilerous review, but the Doll has a much more precise diagnosis of the movie’s flaws than I managed: “[T]he shame is that, while The Taking of Deborah Logan is a good film, the horror story it tells can simply not come close to the terror it creates simply by documenting [Alzheimer’s]. …The shame of The Taking of Deborah Logan is that, as you might suspect, the... Read more
riffing on the relevance of a book about gay celibacy for people who are neither gay nor celibate: …Hill explores how our cultural expectations affect people who, for whatever reason, don’t expect to marry or have kids. How do we give and receive love? How do we lead lives which are fruitful and not just lonely expanses of time-before-death? So often gay people in the “traditional” (for lack of a better word) churches receive no hint that we, too, have... Read more
YOU’RE WELCOME. …With Luxury’s members now scattered across the U.S., Trophies was recorded in Atlanta after a successful crowd-funding campaign in 2014 — which, after so much time away, says a lot about Luxury’s cult following. It comes 10 years after its fourth album, Health & Sport, which is no big deal; many bands take extended breaks. Luxury’s no different, except that three of its members — brothers Lee and Jamey Bozeman (guitars, vocals) and Chris Foley (bass) —became Orthodox... Read more
I’ve read Butler’s phenomenal sci-fi short story collection Bloodchild, but this is the first time I’ve dived into one of her novels. It’s about a California slowly being devastated by climate change, where society is breaking down daily, just slowly enough that people can stay in denial. A teenage girl in a relatively-privileged multiracial gated community is the only one who will admit that the future will be murder; she plans for emergencies and begins to craft a new religion... Read more
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