Articles for category: (Queer) Christianity

April 7, 2026

twhoshaw

AI DOC Harris Tristan film cover on APOCALOPTIMISM.

Are you an APOCALOPTIMIST? I am.

Tristan Harris's "apocaloptimism" — political activism for a pro-human AI future — may be missing something crucial: *the anti-human present is already here.* Drawing on queer theory, Pauline theology, and a revealing visit to Judson Memorial Church, this post argues that the proliferation of AIs reflects our collective exhaustion with the tedium of modern life and its normative authorities. Where the church offers the tired prescription of more God-talk, AIs may be better positioned to help people pursue the intimate lives they actually want. Against the mainline Protestant culture of self-care as mourning past intimate lives, the Pauline command to simply "love one another" points toward something both livelier and queerer. With Harris, and against him, the author lands as an apocaloptimist — betting that honest reckoning with the revelation of our anti-human present can still open toward a more human future.

February 19, 2026

twhoshaw

Hoshaw's version of Bingen's Creation of the Soul for a post on placental relations, theology, viability, and abortion.

Placental Relations: Theology, Viability, and Roe v. Wade

What if Roe v. Wade was wiser than either its defenders or its critics realized? In this post, I take an unconventional path through medieval theology, Peter Sloterdijk's philosophy of the placenta, and Hildegard of Bingen's vision of ensoulment to argue that the Roe Court's viability standard wasn't arbitrary legal improvisation — it was judicial wisdom rooted in a remarkably consistent convergence of theological tradition and modern medicine. Along the way, I make the case that consistent originalism actually leads to a more radical pro-choice conclusion than Roe ever did, and that Dobbs, for all its claims of constitutional fidelity, is just as extra-legal as the decision it overturned — only less honest about it.