{"id":9453,"date":"2015-02-11T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9453"},"modified":"2015-02-11T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:33:25","slug":"the-gay-catholic-writer-who-changed-my-life-wesley-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/02\/the-gay-catholic-writer-who-changed-my-life-wesley-hill.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Gay Catholic Writer Who Changed My Life&#8221;: Wesley Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>gives a super-kind review of my book for <em>Christianity Today<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"text\">\u2026Tushnet is a gay Catholic writer who embraces her church\u2019s teaching on marriage and sexuality. By the time I learned about her, I\u2019d been admitting to myself for a few years that I was gay, though I hadn\u2019t told many other people yet. I was still too frightened and unsure of what kind of welcome (or lack thereof) I\u2019d receive. You know those novels and movies about the yearning, aching twentysomethings who are trying to disentangle and sort out their erotic and religious longings, while dreading loneliness and rejection above all else? That was me. Imagine Charles Ryder from <span class=\"citation\">Brideshead Revisited<\/span>, all angsty and insecure, but with a small-town-USA upbringing, and you\u2019ll get the picture. I needed a lifeline. I was hungry to know I wasn\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2015\/february-web-only\/gay-catholic-writer-who-changed-my-life.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gives a super-kind review of my book for Christianity Today: \u2026Tushnet is a gay Catholic writer who embraces her church\u2019s teaching on marriage and sexuality. By the time I learned about her, I\u2019d been admitting to myself for a few years that I was gay, though I hadn\u2019t told many other people yet. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[1264,30,73],"class_list":["post-9453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-catholic-whatnot","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-gay-catholic-whatnot","tag-mackerel-snapping-2","tag-wesley-hill"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;The Gay Catholic Writer Who Changed My Life&quot;: Wesley Hill<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"gives a super-kind review of my book for Christianity Today: ...Tushnet is a gay Catholic writer who embraces her church\u2019s teaching on marriage and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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