A Night Centered on Welcoming the Stranger There’s always been a tendency in Christianity to isolate from the world. We see it even in the earliest days of the Church, when Peter himself struggled to reach beyond his familiar circle until Paul called him out for refusing to eat with Gentiles (cf. Galatians 2). What makes Christianity so groundbreaking is how it pushes against our human tendency to protect and withdraw. Throughout the scriptures, God challenges us to go beyond

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In the wake of the two shootings claiming the lives of a prominent Christian speaker and two children at a Catholic school, a troubling...

He asked me to call him something other than his legal name—I didn’t feel comfortable with that.

I was heavily influenced in high school and college by my involvement with FOCUS and absorbed the oft-preached contrast between...

Pro-life means to care for the whole person, Catholics will bring the baby into the world but then throw the queers out with the bathwater.

There’s a unique thrill to critiquing great theological writers, and C.S. Lewis has not escaped my reach.

People don’t stay Catholic because the people are perfect. Few communities understand this as acutely as LGBT Catholics.

The response to the Olympic opening ceremony is another clear example of how the church fails to love those it calls enemies.

As a vocal Catholic acquiring a philosophy degree at a secular state school, I brashly weaved Catholic philosophy into all of my papers.

Falling in love with mountaineering has altered my life in so many ways, but it hasn’t changed the fact that I’m still scared of heights.

One thing kept tripping up my conversations with vocations directors: I had to tell them I was attracted to men.

I’d driven past the gay bar multiple times and was now sitting in my car across the street, mustering up the courage to go in.

Which is more controversial: quoting Pope Francis or bringing up homosexuality?

The challenging triad: adhere to the authority of Catholicism, help someone live with their true identity, and care for the individual.

I’m gonna get the "Anti-Woke Police" called on me because some Catholic circles really push back when I bring up inclusivity.

I thought coming out meant pursuing a shadow of love, not the real thing.