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Ron Belgau: why am I here?
First, who am I? I am a Catholic graduate student in Philosophy at Saint Louis University. Before grad school, from the end of my teens to my mid twenties, I worked as a programmer at Microsoft. Now, I...
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Wesley Hill: why am I here?
Greetings, folks. My name is Wes, and along with Ron, I’m one of the guys who helped start this blog. Here’s a bit about me and why I’m here. Currently, I’m trying to finish up a PhD in New Testament...
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Day of Silence 2013
When discussing anti-bullying initiatives, many Christians are quite concerned about parents who have to deal with school curricula discussing LGBT issues by talking to their kids about these issues...
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On Coming Out
In my experience, the best predictor of emotional health for an LGBT person is generally how many people he or she has come out to. This effect is most dramatic between someone who is completely...
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Spiritual Friendship on Social Media
We’ve now added a Spiritual Friendship Facebook page, a Twitter account (and even a Google+ page!) for those of you who prefer to interact on those platforms. At the moment, we’re just sharing links to...
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The Gift of Celibacy
[This is the second in a series of three posts on celibacy. The first was What Does Genesis 2:18 Really Teach?] I’m frustrated with a lot of the way many Christians talk about “the gift of celibacy.”...
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New Design for Spiritual Friendship
As should be fairly obvious if you are reading this (and have ever read a post at Spiritual Friendship before), we have dramatically altered the website design. When Wesley and I created Spiritual...
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Rowan Williams Tells ‘Persecuted’ Western Christians to Grow Up
Since blog traffic tends to be lower on the weekends than during the week, most of the serious blog content—full posts written by our bloggers—will be posted during the week. I will use the weekends to...
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Some Tools of Chaste Living: Introduction
A dear friend recently asked me: how do you pursue chastity in a celibate state? I realized that I have never really written much on this question, though it is deeply significant to the whole project...
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The Many Facets of Christian Friendship
This may be of interest to some of our readers: The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture is featuring several pieces on friendship on their website at the moment. Logan Melh-Laituri...
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Sin and Sexual Minorities Part 1: Introduction
In Christian discussions about sexual identity issues, the notions of “sin” and “morality” often come up. Typically, gay sex is in focus. There are often complaints about how the gay community is...
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Sin and Sexual Minorities Part 3: Sins of Word and Deed
Sexual minority people are often the victims of several forms of overt sins of word and deed. Many of these are actions that we can all acknowledge are absolutely sinful. However, I find that many...
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Sin and Sexual Minorities Part 4: Sins of Omission
In the previous post of this series, I discussed overt sins of word and deed, where the nature of the sin is doing something that we should not do. In this post, I will discuss one major sin of...
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Sin and Sexual Minorities Part 5: Sins of the Heart
Scripture clearly teaches that sin comes from the heart. For example, in Matthew 15:18-20, Jesus teaches that the sins that defile a person come from inside a person’s heart, rather than from outside....
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Sin and Sexual Minorities Part 6: How Doctrine Matters
Up until now in this series, I have focused on sins against sexual minority people. As I alluded to in the introduction, I will now turn to some initial reflections on how to work this into a holistic...
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Sin and Sexual Minorities Part 7: Of Logs and Specks
In this final post of my series on sin and sexual minorities, I will examine an additional major principle that is useful in determining what sins we should prioritize addressing, and I will conclude...
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Missing Housemates
Via Helen Rittelmeyer on Twitter, here is a lovely post by Brooke Conti on what we miss when we miss friendships from our younger days: When I was in my twenties, I was enmeshed in my friends’ lives in...
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Solidarity Doesn’t Equal Condescension
A couple of the commenters on my last post have pointed out that this line from Chris Roberts—“Classic, orthodox celibates are the adopted aunts and uncles of a generous, hospitable household”—could be...
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Talking with Father Josiah Trenham
And one more video. While I was out in California to talk at Biola, I also spoke with Father Josiah Trenham, the pastor of St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside. Here’s the interview (with a rather...
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My Experience of Bisexuality
I wanted to follow up Kyle’s excellent recent post on the complexity of sexual identity with my own account of bisexuality. I’m certainly not trying to characterize Tom Daley or anyone else, but I...
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