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Flame: on autism, disidentification, desire, and social anxiety
May 14, 2025
When I was a senior in high school, I got an unexpected email from my English teacher. Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,...
Ten Thousand Angels
April 1, 2025
‘Charity think no evil, and charity never faileth: Let me feed you with a song.’ --Owen Pallett, ‘The Secret Seven’ The composer cut off the choir mid-...
Words Are Futile Devices: The Inarticulable Queerness of Sufjan Stevens
October 27, 2023
'My body moves in mystic ways.'
On choosing to be gay
July 6, 2023
I chose to be gay. I don’t mean that I necessarily chose to have the particular desires, inclinations, or preferences that I do (although I certainly don’t...
Theopoetics of Exhaustion
April 6, 2023
I I sometimes worry about this newsletter becoming too much of a downer. It was born out of a desire to hold open a space between ‘queer’ and ‘Christian’...
In the bleak midwinter
December 19, 2022
Impressions of Advent
Will Love Prevail?
November 27, 2022
An introduction to gay feelings, religious feelings, and gay religious feelings
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November 15, 2022
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