Taking queerness seriously as a theological category -- a brilliant discussion on today's episode of my podcast maxwellkuzma.substack.com/p/queer-virt...
Queer Virtue: A Theological Lens for Christianity
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Transgender man, lifelong Catholic, NCR Columnist, Board Member DignityUSA, Host of Whiplash Podcast Subscribe to my newsletter for a weekly podcast episode on Monday and an essay on Wednesday: www.maxwellkuzma.substack.com/
Who has the authority to contribute to the church's discernment of truth? Synodality requires engagement with LGBTQ Catholics — and not just the 'right' ones. Via @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social in NCR Opinion... #LGBTQ #Catholic www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
Synodality requires engagement with LGBTQ Catholics — and not just the 'right' ones
"When people's lives expose the limits of our existing frameworks, the appropriate Christian response is not immediate dismissal but deeper discernment," Maxwell Kuzma writes.
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“As Catholics, we believe that all persons are created in the image and likeness of God and therefore, have an inherent human dignity. Every human person, migrant or otherwise, must be treated as such. Disregard for this should never be normalized in our society.”
A Catholic bishop in Michigan is speaking out after ICE arrests shook his community
“Our system has been broken for more than 40 years, and our government leaders do not seem to want to try and fix the problem,” Bishop Robert D. Gruss said in a statement.
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You can still sign up to @londonjesuit.bsky.social & @cdjtheology.bsky.social's Theology4Trans Studies conference! 2 days exploring the interface between theology & trans studies at US-friendly times & trans-friendly prices 20-21 Aug, £5, online londonjesuitcentre.churchsuite.com/events/wevpt...
Theology4Trans Studies (online conference) (20-Aug-2026)
Conference overviewOver the past few years, Christian theology has begun to take more interest in transness. Transness is recognised as an element within our contemporary metaphysical, ethical and pol...
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Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
"The new water treatment technology captures plastic particle down to 30 nanometres while also pulling out toxic heavy heavy metals, drug residues, and industrial dyes. The findings were published in the Chemical Engineering Journal..."
Scientists built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of microplastics and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise in removing some PFAS
Scientists at RMIT University in Australia have built a reusable magnetic material that removed more than 95% of micro- and nanoplastics from water within one hour and showed early promise against som...
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Even when a Nolan movie doesn’t resonate with me (I usually like them but don’t love them), I appreciate them for giving straight men an opportunity to openly weep
There’s definitely a lot of pretending going on with racism.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2w agoIt is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
The saga continues. The eroding of rights is done thru "small" stories that dont get a lot of publicity. Until one day, you realize you dont have any abcnews.com/Politics/wir...
Education Department rescinds disparate impact rule, a key tool used to assess school discrimination
The Education Department will no longer consider school policies that disproportionately harm one group of students as discriminatory unless the discrimination is intentional, rescinding a decades-lon...
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 8mo agoI dont you cam grasp just how ground shaking this is. This is a 8.0 on the Richter scale. "Disparate impact" was one of the only things keeping the 1964 Civil Rights Act working www.jns.org/disparate-im...
This whole Taylor farms thing and all the food being infected with parasites. It's actually a very good example of why these conglomerants and monopolies shouldn't exist. You shouldn't be able to operate under one name and own 30 brands that do the exact same thing
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.
A thoughtful piece on masculinity. It pushes back against the idea that masculinity can be reduced to biology, or “restored” through testosterone, and instead asks what kind of lives men are actually able to build. Worth a look. www.statnews.com/2026/07/21/c...
Pete Hegseth, ‘The Odyssey,’ and the testosterone myth
The poet didn’t say “sing to me, Muse, of a man with optimized endocrine panels," writes urologist Elizabeth Dray.
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"No moral panic is more unoriginal than the fear that contemporary men are no longer as manly as the heroes who preceded them."
Pete Hegseth, ‘The Odyssey,’ and the testosterone myth
The poet didn’t say “sing to me, Muse, of a man with optimized endocrine panels," writes urologist Elizabeth Dray.
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Several health experts said they were puzzled by the Pentagon's announcement on testosterone testing and are concerned it may lead to unnecessary — or even harmful — treatment. 👉 ebx.sh/yo9pL8
The air is full of smoke, the food is full of parasites, and the water is full of data center bacteria but at least we stopped all that DEI children's cancer research!
RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...
What to know about cyclosporiasis, the intestinal illness hitting the U.S.
A surge of cases of the intestinal illness that causes diarrhea and fatigue has been detected in 34 states. Here's how what to do if you suspect you have it and how to avoid infection.
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"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."
Why we still don’t know what foods are the source of the cyclospora outbreak
“You cannot thin a system, defer the tools that would speed it up, and then wonder why the public is left guessing,” writes epidemiologist Katrine Wallace.
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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
Part 2 of our chat with Sam at the Political Theology Network is out! Even better than the first one if you ask me. @mattbernico.bsky.social says some very cool things about organizing specifically. politicaltheology.com/degrowth-chr...
Degrowth, Christianity, and Liberation: A Conversation with Dean Dettloff and Matt Bernico (Part 2) | Political Theology Network
A few weeks ago, Dean Dettloff and Matthew Bernico met with Catholic Re-Visions’ co-convener Samuel Huard for a discussion about their new book Enough Is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism…
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Dean Dettloff@deandettloff.bsky.social · last mo.Grateful to our friend Sam at the Political Theology Network for this first part of a conversation with @mattbernico.bsky.social and I on our book, degrowth, and more. politicaltheology.com/degrowth-chr...
Luke 6 reveals a Gospel where God's blessings fall not on the comfortable, but on those who have known rejection, grief, hunger, and hope. justiceunbound.org/queeringluke6/
Queering the Bible: Luke 6 - Unbound
What Luke 6 is doing so forcefully is what liberation theology spells out directly: God is not encountered in abstract ideas separated from history, but in the concrete realities of hunger, exclusion,...
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the new york times calling them "rebel Catholics" makes them seem way more cool than they actually are, lol. Oooh the latin mass, so rebellious...
This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.
