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Oct 12, 202412 min read
My Father Gives Me Bread: What the LGBTQ+ Community Needs from the Church
Ed. Note: This essay, originally published in What We Need Now , is written by dear friend of DSM Amy Hamilton. Her message of God’s...
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Marco Casanova
Oct 7, 20243 min read
Queer Eyed? Nah, Eyes on the Prize
“We must understand the term ‘helpmate’ in its most basic meaning. Woman was given to man so that he can understand himself, and...
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Andrew Comiskey
Sep 2, 20243 min read
Smoke, Not Fire
Originally Published 01/01/18 Two weeks ago, a Roman Catholic priest from Milwaukee came out as ‘gay’—made by God that way—to his...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jul 8, 20243 min read
No ‘Mixed’ Marriages
‘Mixed’ marriages connote a hint of racism—historically a union of different ethnicities, non-Anglos casting a shadow over the ‘white’...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jun 17, 20244 min read
Kingdom Kindness: Marriage Heals
We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jun 1, 20243 min read
Kingdom Kindness: June Bride
We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...
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Marco Casanova
May 27, 20243 min read
No Gimmicks Part II
Ania and I bonded over our mutual affection for the whole Body of Christ, in our case, the Catholic Church. Why? The Church was healing...
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Andrew Comiskey
May 13, 20244 min read
Just Mercy: Why IHOPKC Needs a New Third-Party Investigation
‘Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.’ Thomas Aquinas Remarkable. Tragic. IHOPKC is...
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Marco Casanova
Apr 15, 20243 min read
You’re not Gay. You’re a Gift.
Homosexuality is symptomatic of a wound. Whenever I experience same-sex attraction, I connect with a wound related to masculine...
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Marco Casanova
Mar 9, 20244 min read
Courage of Our Convictions #1
“The bishops are oblivious to the implications of Fiducia Supplicans,” I grumbled to my spiritual director. “I don’t think that’s true,...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 17, 20233 min read
Rousing Her Radiance: Day 38
Living Truth ‘You are Peter, and on this Rock, I will build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.’ (Matt. 16:18)....
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 12, 20233 min read
Rousing Her Radiance: Day 33
Contending for Transformation ‘Jesus is a foe of any kind of fatalistic mindset that reduces His creation to something less than what He...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 6, 20233 min read
Rousing Her Radiance: Day 27
Overcoming Domestic Violence ‘Without a firm understanding of our biological sex and the God-given purpose of men and women to love,...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 31, 20233 min read
Rousing Her Radiance: Day 21
Deeper Ache ‘Those who are whole don’t need a doctor but those who are sick. I come not to call the righteous but sinners to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 25, 20234 min read
Rousing Her Radiance: Day 15
Leveraging Church Hypocrisy #1 ‘If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who I am to judge him?’- Pope Francis The leaning...
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Andrew Comiskey
Sep 18, 20233 min read
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, 20233 min read
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
Mar 20, 20233 min read
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
Feb 20, 20232 min read
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
Dec 26, 20223 min read
Flesh and Stones
Why does Christmas Day fold into the stoning of Stephen? Why does your calendar, O Church, disturb our reverie with bloodshed? Why must...
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