Dick Button, the voice of figure skating for half a decade, taught us what figure skating was supposed to be.
Eve Tushnet
Eve Tushnet is the co-founder of Building Catholic Futures, a nonprofit equipping Catholic institutions to serve and share the Gospel with LGBT+ people. She is the author of two books about gay Christian spiritual lives, and two novels.
Posted inFaith, Features
How one nonprofit works to help clergy abuse survivors on a path toward healing
Survivors deserve to experience the church in a way that restores, nourishes and heals.
Posted inFaith, Features
Young LGBT Catholics need to know they belong in the church. I’m creating a curriculum to tell them that.
Our hope is that, by the time a young person begins asking questions about their own sexual orientation, they already trust that there is a place for gay people in the Catholic Church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Why are there so many movies about nuns—and so few about monks?
There are some truly excellent films about monks, with deep insights into the love of God and the nature of sacrifice. But why aren’t there more?
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Great Freedom’ is about longing for connection at a dangerous time to be gay
‘Great Freedom’ is an exploration of the nature of eros: the many acts, only some of them sexual, toward which it can propel us.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Urban planning can facilitate friendship — and the Catholic Church can help
We need a new image of what it means to be a good neighbor.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Inside the catastrophe itself: Blame and shame in the short stories of Danielle Evans
Many of the short stories in Danielle Evans’s new collection address the reality that so many of our current conflicts center on how to understand, heal from, punish, honor or make amends for past actions.
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Conversion therapy is still happening in Catholic spaces—and its effects on L.G.B.T. people can be devastating
Although only a small minority of L.G.B.T. Catholics will ever seek conversion therapy, the assumptions underlying that therapy often influence the message many gay Catholics hear in the confessional and from friends and mentors.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Friendship is a place of sacrifice—and sanctification
‘Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close’ by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman offers a defense of sacrificial friendship.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
‘Minari’: A delicate look at a Korean-American family’s fierce love and complex faith
Arkansas is a land of opportunity for the Yis, as well as the site of their suffering.