Top 25 LGBTQ Christian books of 2015 - from Jesus in Love Blog

In my haste to run through a list of best gay fiction of the year in the previous posting (and Tennessee's biography), I should have clarified that I was looking primarily at 'secular' gay fiction, but with an eye wide...

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Gay Books of the Year

Have been neglecting this blog of late, but not the issues it deals with. At the moment I'm on a reading spree of some of the 'best gay LGBT books of the year" depending on who you listen to.  I hope to review quite...

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Rest in Peace Father John McNeil

One of the very great patron saints of the gay rights movement in the Catholic Church and the  US passed away on September 22. I can't begin to express how much I owe to him and how deeply his death has moved me....

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Back from Summer Camp

Just returned from eight intense non stop weeks of summer camp with Czech kids. Exhausted beyond words, but I wouldn't have missed a moment of it. Thankfully, the world and it's woes were far, far away from us. Now it's...

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Let the Wedding Bells Ring

Love Wins ...

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Ruminations on Ireland, Oscar and Jahar

Been neglecting this blog of late, since I'm running two other blogs at the same time, but that doesn't mean I haven't kept a keen eye on all things gay and LGBT, including the historic vote in Ireland, which was...

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Genuine Humanity in Boston

On the way to the little village of Lisnice, CZ...in the Land of Oz This is what decency and common humanity look like - in this insightful, compassionate look at Boston 'Bomber' Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Heather is a defense...

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The Confused Citizen's Guide to the Boston Marathon Bombings

Just posted this at my new blog, Prague Noir: Ruminations of a Crime Novelist.  In response to requests from friends and students (and with hope in my heart and a prayer for justice), I've compiled this short summary...

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Gay News of the Week

Gay News of the Week - some cheering and uplifting, some not so much. First, a charming and inspiring incident from a Las Vegas high school: Jacob Lescenski, a Las Vegas, Nevada high school student, is straight. His...

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The Franciscan (Pope Francis): A Book Review

Partly because of my theological background, I was asked by the publishers to provide an honest review of The Franciscan, a religious suspense thriller by WR. Park. Written some fourteen years ago, the plot...

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The Fifth Gospel - a Vatican thriller

Book review of The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell This was an intelligent, erudite thriller that held me in suspense for the first 80% of the book. However, I was quite disappointed with the left turn it took towards...

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Boston Marathon Bombing Verdict/Revised

In a state of mourning today over the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty verdict in the Boston Marathon Bombing trial - though the verdict was certainly expected and no surprise. I've followed this case meticulously in exact...

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Gay Passion of Christ Envisioned and Attacked

Kittredge Cherry, author of the wonderful Jesus in Love Blog, has just recently published an article at Huffington Post about her remarkable book, The Passion of Christ, A Gay Vision, with paintings done by the extraordinary...

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