The Dark Side of Conversion Therapy No One Talks About - Chiles v Salazar
We unpack how “Reintegrative Therapy” works, why it’s so dangerous, and how confusing boundaries can create lasting harm.| chrisdamian.substack.com
We unpack how “Reintegrative Therapy” works, why it’s so dangerous, and how confusing boundaries can create lasting harm.| chrisdamian.substack.com
They help challenge the Church’s current stance towards homosexuality.| chrisdamian.substack.com
It’s likely that the ability of Anatrella and other Church leaders to abuse arose, in part, because of the ex-gay narrative that they furthered.| chrisdamian.substack.com
I had been browsing Grindr earlier in the day, and priest was not the vibe.| chrisdamian.substack.com
MacIntyre, Coakley, and Benedict push us to rethink the meaning of hedonism and asceticism.| chrisdamian.substack.com
Today's newsletter: hope and the imagination, the genesis of gender, and love in friendship| chrisdamian.substack.com
The University had agreed to the position: gay persons need not apply.| chrisdamian.substack.com
Catholics often say the Church’s teaching on homosexuality is timeless—unchanging since the beginning. But what if that’s not true?| Chris Damian writes
Nicolosi's own study is valuable as an illustration of why one should be skeptical of him.| Chris Damian writes
We unpack the cost of silence, the day a bishop moved to fire him over a podcast, the blurred lines between “healing ministry” and therapy, and how grief and gratitude can coexist.| Chris Damian writes
In my latest interview, licensed psychologist and Catholic author Dr. Julia Sadusky joins me to talk about real-world care for gender-questioning teens.| Chris Damian writes
The ex-gay movement never really went away—it just rebranded.| chrisdamian.substack.com
Catholicism, (homo)sexuality, creativity, race, philosophy, theology, law. Click to read Chris Damian writes, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| chrisdamian.substack.com
It's only through a series of departures and returns that life can start to constitute an image.| chrisdamian.substack.com
Revisionist history, Zoom accessibility, the Gospels' unclean, and more!| chrisdamian.substack.com
The diocese seemed to suggest that the person in need of healing was not the abuse survivor, but was the priest who dismissed her.| chrisdamian.substack.com
This is not an essay aimed an innocence. It is an essay aimed at escape.| chrisdamian.substack.com
A conversation with David Palmieri, a Catholic school teacher who has nearly 30 years of experience accompanying LGBTQ+ kids| Chris Damian writes
If these women's arguments are the best that Catholicism has to offer in these spaces, it doesn't bode well for the Church...| Chris Damian writes
I’m hoping this will be a new way to help educate people about the power of the Catholic tradition and the dangers that arise when we present it wrongly.| Chris Damian writes
It's ok if you're struggling to feel empathy.| chrisdamian.substack.com
One lesson Mary Rice Hasson, Theresa Farnan, and Susan Selner-Wright teach us about identity: you can argue in bad faith and still identify as a faithful Catholic.| Chris Damian writes
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops are among those who have submitted briefs opposing the minor conversion therapy ban.| Chris Damian writes
The day after I got back to Minneapolis, children were shot dead during their first school Mass of the year.| chrisdamian.substack.com
One rioter pardoned by Trump was later sentenced to life for an assassination plot against law enforcement officers.| chrisdamian.substack.com
Our government is currently wasting more than $5 million per day detaining people with no criminal record.| chrisdamian.substack.com
I outlived Jesus. Now what?| chrisdamian.substack.com
I had this narrative about the direction of the increasingly pro-choice country. I feared that one day we would be targeted and imprisoned for our views.| chrisdamian.substack.com
Asking me a question about anything (literally anything) might lead to a conversation about Aristotle or Hitler or Mindy Kaling.| chrisdamian.substack.com
Legal protections I had at the start of the year are now gone.| chrisdamian.substack.com
Listen now | An unmarried Catholic school teacher found herself with an unplanned pregnancy, a sick baby, and a school that wanted to buy her silence.| chrisdamian.substack.com
On growing from being a naked Jennifer Lawrence| chrisdamian.substack.com
I talk with Stephen about politics, Catholicism, sexuality, and discourse across divides.| chrisdamian.substack.com
I had been browsing Grindr earlier in the day, and priest was not the vibe.| chrisdamian.substack.com
What do alien abduction and broken toys have to do with the queer Catholic experience?| chrisdamian.substack.com
It's only through a series of departures and returns that life can start to constitute an image.| chrisdamian.substack.com
Sorry, parents. (But also, not sorry. And also, thanks.)| chrisdamian.substack.com
Stein suggests a continuous construction and deconstruction and reconstruction of the concept “woman.”| chrisdamian.substack.com
Reading Edith Stein's autobiography| chrisdamian.substack.com
I cannot think of evangelization without thinking of conquest and violence and death and homes burned to the ground and people grieving and lost.| chrisdamian.substack.com
On holding many things.| chrisdamian.substack.com
