In this episode, Abigail Favale has a conversation with Eve Tushnet and Wesley Hill about homosexuality, celibacy, friendship, and community in the context of the Church. What does it look like to follow the Way of Jesus while being attracted to the same sex? What does the Bible say about friendship between members of the same sex?  How has a focus on romantic love affected the way the church communities operate?

Eve Tushnet is the author of Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith (winner of the 2015 Catholic Press Award for books on Gender Issues) and two novels, Amends and Punishment: A Love Story. She is the editor of the anthology Christ’s Body, Christ’s Wounds: Staying Catholic When You’ve Been Hurt in the Church. She has written on the paths of love available to gay Christians for a wide range of publications, including America, the American Conservative, Commonweal, and Christianity Today, and online at the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Washington Post; she speaks frequently on these subjects, at venues ranging from the Gay Christian Network conference to seminaries, parishes, Theology on Tap, and universities.

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Wesley Hill is associate professor of New Testament at Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan and an assisting priest at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His PhD in New Testament is from Durham University in the UK. He is the author of Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality, Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters, Spiritual Friendship: Finding Love in the Church as a Celibate Gay Christian, and The Lord’s Prayer: A Guide to Praying to Our Father. A contributing editor for Comment magazine, he writes regularly for Christianity Today, The Living Church, and other publications.

Professor Abigail Favale completed her doctorate at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she was a recipient of the competitive Overseas Research Award. In 2011, her dissertation was granted the Samuel Rutherford Prize for the most distinguished thesis in English literature.

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