If you missed the live stream of @trippfuller.bsky.social, @paulhoard.bsky.social, and I talking about AI and the Christmas story, fear not! You can watch the recording here. In this clip, we riff on desire, flourishing, The Good Place & Zechariah losing his voice. open.substack.com/pub/personal...

@paulhoard.bsky.social and I are so honored to have our book included on Dwight's Top 10 books of the year! And this list is fantastic. I absolutely recommend all of these! dwightfriesen.com/2025/12/5204...

Welcome to the season finale of @queerpolifaith.bsky.social! Today's episode is a conversation I had with @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social about #bullshit. It is part 2 of our conversation about their book #Eucontamination: Disgust Theology and the Christian Life from August

Y'all this event is going to be February, virtual registration is available (and free to students I believe), @paulhoard.bsky.social and I are gonna be presenting, and my counselor friends will even get CEUs for it. You should definitely sign!!! open.substack.com/pub/paulhoar...

NGL I like how the ridiculous threats from Hegseth have prompted Kelly to start treating this fascist regime with the disdain it deserved all along. They will come for the rest of you and it will be better to act together now.

Today I am dropping the first of my brother @paulhoard.bsky.social 's Essay in his Lacanian Virtue Ethics Series. I plan to post Paul's essays (with a little additional commentary from me at the end) as my Friday posts for a while. open.spotify.com/episode/798d...

paulhoard.substack.com/p/not-whole-... A short essay on Lacan and humility

New essay on fidelity and friendship just dropped. open.substack.com/pub/paulhoar...

Had a couple of really good conversations now with @paulhoard.bsky.social and @billieiswriting.bsky.social regarding their new book, Eucontamination. This one is focused more on the Bible and theology. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

“For if we ever fully belonged—if we were completed—we would lose the very condition that makes love possible.” A thoughtful, provocative essay. It prompted this in me: loving my community is sorta like loving my own body — it isn’t perfect; it’s mine & I accept it even as I try to improve it.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

Eucontamination Ch. 2 (because this is apparently what I'm doing this weekend 😄) "Disgust is not so much about inherent qualities of an object, person, or group but about the concern they create around contamination. Nothing is *inherently* disgusting."

All that to say, yeah. Disgust doesn't care about logic, and it is a powerful motivator. To deal with any of these messes we're in, we're going to have to undermine the disgust reaction, so thank you to Paul and Billie for jumping into the work.

Oh my gosh I love this so much!

For the record, the technical term for language spoken or written without regard for the truth, designed only to shape the listener's/reader's imagined reality in a particular way is "bullshit". @paulhoard.bsky.social and I wrote about that (building on Frankfurt) in our book.

If you wait to decide until the federal government calls the question, the temptation to justify making the "safe" decision will be overwhelming. As my brother writes: integrity requires commitment to the unfinished and uncertain; reject the fantasy of security. open.substack.com/pub/paulhoar... 6/

"Authoritarianism treats critique not as feedback, but as infection." This line makes my mind go to the theology of disgust that @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social talk about in their book.....

"Courage is the risk of fidelity when fantasy fails—the act that carries us further than fear would allow, without any guarantee that it will make us whole." Y'all need to stop sleeping on the 🔥 my brother has been writing.

In our book "Eucontamination" @paulhoard.bsky.social and I talk about the Disgust cycle [nausea—trigger—vomit—rationalize] which drives social expulsion at every level from stigma to ethnic cleansing and genocide. These folks are so thirsty to make a trigger stick! 1/4

Excited to be presenting with @billieiswriting.bsky.social, @tamicenamaespeaks.bsky.social, and @orthoparadoxy.bsky.social at Theology Beer Camp this October!

Yay! Trans woman interviewing another trans woman (and my "token cis" brother @paulhoard.bsky.social ) about our scholarship! Check it out!

This was fun. Love working with my sister!

Eeek! I feel like a real author! @paulhoard.bsky.social and I will be presenting on the subversive power of Queer joy at 1:00 tomorrow and then signing books at 2:00 at Wild Goose!

Welcome to a very special episode of @queerpolifaith.bsky.social! Today, I am interviewing @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social about the book #Eucontamination Disgust Theology and the Christian Life which came out on August 1. We start off by discussing what eucontamination is

NEW EPISODE: We’re back! And honored to have @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social hanging out with @muzach.bsky.social and I. We talk their great new book Eucontamination! Listen in and pick up a copy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Took a minute to shake the rust off, but it was so nice to catch up with friends. @davelester80.bsky.social and I have been talking with @paulhoard.bsky.social and @billieiswriting.bsky.social for nearly 3 years now, and couldn't be more proud of them now that it's actually out. Take a listen!

"The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world." — Seamus Heaney

I’m adding this to my book club reading list

Who all is gonna be at Wild Goose 2025? @paulhoard.bsky.social and I will be there doing our Eucontamination stuff and I would love to meet you in person!

Eucontamination by @paulhoard.bsky.social and @billieiswriting.bsky.social which is great! I think you would dig it @jackjenkins.me and a lot of very relevant analysis of the current religious/ political landscape. www.amazon.com/Eucontaminat...

I'm only one chapter in, and already 'Eucontamination' By @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social is blowing my mind! I've heard several podcasts, so the basics are sort of familiar already, but my brain is buzzing and boiling with connections I see to my own life and context, not 1/

Something that became increasingly apparent to me as I worked on "Eucontamination" with my brother @paulhoard.bsky.social is just how passionately people cling to their imagined realities in defiance of Truth or actual Reality. 4/

Schools (my home school district) allowing books about queer characters to be read in classrooms. In two weeks, I will present an interview I had with @billieiswriting.bsky.social and @paulhoard.bsky.social about their book which came out on August 1st. It was all sorts of fun and I think you'll

New books! New books! New books! @billieiswriting.bsky.social stoked y'all's book is out! @paulhoard.bsky.social see you in class next month! XD

The best email I've received in a VERY long time 😍🔥🔥🔥 @billieiswriting.bsky.social @paulhoard.bsky.social book is on its way...! 😍🔥🔥🔥

If Christ is not to be found among the marginalized, the stigmatized, and the outcast then He will not be found anywhere. To locate "Jesus" among the wealthy, the privileged, and the powerful is to mistake Christ for Anti-Christ. @paulhoard.bsky.social

Y'all I am absolutely loving all the pictures of people getting our book. Thank you so much for tagging me and @paulhoard.bsky.social in them. And please keep it up!

Few voices have unsettled and expanded my theological imagination like @billieiswriting.bsky.social. *Eucontamination* promises to keep pushing me, challenging comfort, deepening conviction, and transforming how I think about faith. @paulhoard.bsky.social #eucontamination #billiehoard #paulhoard

We have to date to ask "what if there's more?" @paulhoard.bsky.social

A church which fails to stand with the oppressed is a church that has rejected Christ. @paulhoard.bsky.social

I am so glad you like it! And yeah that section was one of my favorites (and most moving to me) to write. 🥹