Category Memoir

A solitary traveller walks a winding country road through a rural landscape at sunset, passing several small churches beneath a luminous evening sky filled with the first emerging stars.

A Town Full of Churches: Where Many Paths Became One

As I prepare to attend the 14th Anniversary Mass of All Inclusive Ministries, I find myself reflecting on a path no one could have predicted—and on all the churches that helped shape it. If someone had told the boy I once was that he would one day become a Catholic, help establish an LGBTQ Catholic ministry, and spend decades as a professional astrologer, I would have found it utterly improbable.

Formal portrait of the author's father, whose life and work inspired the memoir Tobacco Run.

Tobacco Run: How My Father Taught Me to See God

When I was five, I had my first conversation with my father about the existence of God — or at least the first conversation I can remember.

That I would have such a conversation with Dad was not, in itself, remarkable. He was preoccupied with religion, though very much from his own particular angle. He would talk about God with whomever happened to be available.