September 7, 2025
Excitable Truth? On Speaking the Truth in Love
What does speaking the truth in love mean? It means sharing truth with a sense of irony. Truth is just not that serious. Truth is (un)serious.
Articles for author: twhoshaw
What is life due?
Collective life requires us to pay attention. Yet, we seem to "know" that life is not always worth its due. Traction feels good.
Coming Soon
New post on the purposes of theory and two new episodes of The New Thoughts Podcast coming soon! Trans Desire and Social Media are my topics.
July 31, 2025
God’s Semen and Alien Mushrooms: The Christology of Joe Rogan?
Does Joe Rogan believe Jesus Christ is an alien mushroom born of God’s semen? It seems so. And that's interesting, right?!
The Digital Cleric: AI, Theology, and the End of Textual Authority
AI represents the *ongoing* clerical tradition of the death of God. It merely reinforces the displacement of theology by hermeneutics/method.
July 6, 2025
Against (Virtually) Normal: Law, Politics, and the Trans/Queer Body
Andrew Sullivan follows the SCOTUS majority, naturalizing a conservative theology of sex while masquerading it as liberal neutrality.
June 14, 2025
Gay Erasure? No thanks.
Who is afraid of gayness? We, all of us, need gayness. We need gay marriage. We need gay pride. We need gay parenting. May it be so. Amen.
June 11, 2025
Weird Delight
I am delighted by these weird, radically centered spaces where the things of the world no one wants gather and cannot (easily) be reached.
May 15, 2025
The Entangled Society
The entangled society is not the society of no! or yes we can!--it is the society of see what happens when you (are) stop(ped) and you play.
May 8, 2025
Friendship/Communion
Friendship and/as communion.
