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Revelation
[This post was originally written for Friday, October 14. A combination of weather-related travel delays and getting feedback from my friend Chris delayed posting until now.] In the fall of 2009, I...
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When Friendship Isn’t a “Solution”
Paul Wadell, author of some of the few contemporary treatments of friendship in the Christian tradition (that draw on St. Aelred, among others), has an article in an old issue of the Christian Century...
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“Beyond marriage and religious life”
Our own Eve Tushnet has a new piece in America magazine about non-marital ways people can belong to one another. I recommend it enthusiastically. My housemates Aidan and Melanie Smith and I—about whom...
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Permission to Lament
In one of Henri Nouwen’s newly published letters, there comes this moment of real human transparency and frailty: What I keep hoping for are friends who protect, support and care for my celibate choice...
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On Gay Loneliness
This Huffington Post article, by Michael Hobbes, on “gay loneliness after gay rights” has been making the rounds. I first saw it when a friend of mine sent me the link last week, and I was truly moved...
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How Should We Then Live?
The recent debate surrounding the essay “Conjugal Friendship” by Giacomo Sanfilippo has yet again reminded me of a the importance of dialogue surrounding sexual minorities in the Orthodox Church. I’m...
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Heartbreak and Celibacy Pt. 1
Part 1: What Heartbreak and Heartache Have Taught Me About Myself How do you live with heartbreak when you were never supposed to fall in love? What happens when you fall in love with a friend and you...
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Heartbreak and Celibacy Pt. 2
(See Part 1) Part 2: What Heartbreak and Heartache Have Taught Me About Heart The second time I fell in love was with a new friend I met during my last year in St. Louis. I’ll call him Brad. This time,...
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Heartbreak and Celibacy Pt. 3
(See Part 1 & Part 2) Part 3: What Heartbreak and Heartache Have Taught Me About Community I’m a verbal processor and am usually a miserable failure at not gushing most details of my life with...
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Loneliness and the Celibate Gay Christian
This is a guest post by Julia Sadusky, a doctoral candidate in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at Regent University, where she previously served as the Research Assistant for the Institute...
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