Tag: 2010
Sexuality, certainty and salvation
In this interview with the Australian broadcaster ABC, James Alison reflects on his own experience as a gay Catholic, on the givenness of sexual orientation, and on what he calls “the shape of God’s affection”. (Audio and transcript)
On being Catholic and gay, René Girard and penal substitution
James Alison speaks to the Sunday Nights programme of the Australian radio station ABC Local. (stream and download)
“Like being dragged through a bush backwards”: hints of the shape of conversion’s adventure
Talk for Charles Sturt University, Canberra, 14th September 2010. It is a very great honour to have been asked by you to share some thoughts about conversion in your midst. You have invited me to develop hints of the way that the understanding of Christianity which I have been pursuing in the light of the…
From impossibility to responsibility: developing new narratives for gay catholic living
A talk for the Georgetown University LGBTQ Center delivered on 27 January 2010 as part of the series entitled The Sacred and The Sexual: Deepening the Conversation on Campus. If, on a Sunday evening, I go down to the street on which my apartment block stands in São Paulo, of one thing I can be sure. There…