Andrew Comiskey
Does the Church Kill ‘Gay’ People?
Part 2: The MacGuffin of Conversion Therapy This is the second blog of our three-part series. If you haven’t already, please read part 1...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Sep 11
- 3 min
Does the Church Kill ‘Gay’ People?
Part 1: Mistaken Identity Simon Kent Fung does. Believe the Church kills ‘gay’ people, that is, like Alana Chen on whom he based his...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Aug 1
- 3 min
Miracles of Becoming Whole
Previously published in Desert Stream’s 2023 Mid-Year Report Jesus heals the sexually disintegrated. I know this because He healed me of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jul 24
- 3 min
Fault Line
‘Gay’ selves splinter into a ‘trans’ nation. The moral and psychological fault line underneath today’s homosexuality widens into a...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jul 10
- 2 min
After Pride: Pouring Out
‘Freedom consists not in doing what we like but in having the right to do what we ought.’ -St. John Paul II After a couple weeks of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jul 3
- 2 min
After Pride: Icons
I liked these guys but wouldn’t agree that they were ‘married.’ ‘Friends with benefits’ better described them. As we talked, it was clear...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jun 13
- 3 min
Language of Love: A Letter to My Kids
After I spoke to one of my children about why I take pains (and risk causing pain) to not use LGBTQ+ language in defining people, I wrote...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jun 1
- 2 min
Authentic Love
Ann meant well but her eyes, filling slowly with tears, belied her. She responded confidently at first to my question as to why she was...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 28
- 2 min
Look Listen Live
‘When we find ourselves in the presence of such beautiful souls, we cannot but discover in them an obvious sign of the experience of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- May 1
- 3 min
Dignity in Diapers?
Pope Francis’ poor word choice in describing the Church’s catechism on sexuality as ‘still in diapers’ (‘The Pope: Answers’, Hulu) can’t...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Apr 3
- 2 min
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Restores
Dear Pope Francis, We enter Holy Week fixed on Jesus. His wounds are magnetic to us, the wounded. I am grateful for your exhortation to...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 27
- 3 min
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Disciplines
Dear Pope Francis, I just returned from a Living Waters group where Jesus is healing broken lives aspiring to chastity. My co-teacher...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 20
- 3 min
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Guides
Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for fathering us generously. You eschew formalities, which invites us to pour out contradictions—desires in...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 13
- 3 min
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Clarifies
Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for championing the oppressed; you help create level ground on which they regain footing and dignity. As the...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 6
- 3 min
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Confirms
Dear Pope Francis, You exemplify a father who draws near to sons and daughters to dignify them. You encourage us to aspire to more, to...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Open Letter to Pope Francis: A Father Listens
Pope Francis, Forgive my mild resistance to the ‘synod on synodality.’ The name itself tempts me to revert to evangelicalism; I resist. I...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 30
- 2 min
Sin of Omission
‘We are all children of God and God loves us as we are…’ Pope Francis, on loving ‘LGBTQ+-identified’ people Pope Francis rightly...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 8
- 3 min
Epiphany of Benedict XVI
If Epiphany means to make something clear, then late great Pope Benedict is the Feast’s exemplar. ‘Stand firm in the faith! Don’t let...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Dec 12, 2022
- 3 min
Joyful Generation: Advent of Integration 3
‘Perhaps what we modern people most need is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Dec 5, 2022
- 3 min
Declare Your Ground: Advent of Integration 2
‘If you don’t stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all’ (Is. 7:9). Christian, never apologize for upholding persons in their...
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