Gospel For Gays

Of Pearls and Swine

For years I’ve been fascinated and perplexed by the story of the demoniac and the herd of pigs – both of which are unclean, according to the Law, since the demoniac is a pagan who lives among the tombs and pigs are – well – pigs. Jesus restores the demoniac to life and sound mind, while the pigs stampede into the sea.
Maybe it’s my experience as a gay man that resonates obscurely through that story. Despite all the pious cant about “loving the sinner but not the sin”, we’re considered unclean by the mainstream church, by which I mean an awful lot of very well-meaning, nice, polite people.

Favorite Gospels

These six Gospels are my favorites and are the core texts from which this web site springs. They follow the arc of Jesus’s life beginning with an early healing that breaks the social ostracism of his day and end with his death cry. This is why I call these “favorites”…

My Return

I quit going to mass when the Canadian bishops jumped into a federal election campaign, leading the charge against gay marriage.
“You guys had a choice,” I reasoned.  “You could have accepted the inevitable.  You could have simply reaffirmed that the sacrament of marriage is unchanged, irrespective of what secular society does.
“Instead, you campaigned against a [...]

Jesus Forsaken

I began this piece on Good Friday, and it did not come easily. It is not an easy subject, and I have a long personal relationship with Jesus Forsaken.

I deeply loved my mother, a needy, possessive, self-hating, beautiful alcoholic whose constant question was, “but why?”, as in “But why go on? Why bother? What’s the point?”