June 3, 2026
My mother used to say I was "born in a jar with one eye." This is the story of the boy in that jar — bullied, converted, ordained, undone and remade by Chicago's North Side — who finally learned that gayness was the best thing about him.
May 25, 2026
A reflection on giving up flight training, the shock of midlife, and how to land when life gets big. The ideal glide speed is a life lesson.
May 9, 2026
What if the danger isn't that AI becomes too alien, but that it becomes too human? A "theological" case for letting AI stay strange.
Ken Martin says he "just doesn't care." After his Pod Save America interview and the buried after-action report, neither do we. Gurl, you can go.
March 9, 2026
At a recent lecture on bridging psychoanalytic and psychedelic therapies, the promised ethical considerations never quite arrived. What emerged instead was something more revealing: an institution confronting its own institutionalization.
February 23, 2026
Andrew Sullivan gets a few things right: public support for trans freedom has narrowed, and winning elections matters. But when you strip away his reasonable concessions, what remains is not political argument — it is projection. This post applies John Rawls's concept of public reason to Sullivan's anti-trans screeds and finds them wanting. Sullivan's fantasy of gay kids being forced to transition by evil doctors is not a basis for public policy. It is a private obsession dressed up as political commentary. And the real world keeps telling him so.
February 19, 2026
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.
January 28, 2026
A queer reading of *The Bear,* passion, pleasure, and the surprising power of love to free us from the misery of goals.
September 20, 2025
A quick take on two books, *The Anxious Generation* and *How We Grow Up.* Tweens and teens need more inclusionary feminists in their lives.
September 7, 2025
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.
September 28, 2026
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