A queer history of Christianity
From Augustine to Bonhoeffer to Joshua Harris, the secret is out.
10 min readAug 2, 2019
Augustine of Hippo, the famous 4th century Catholic, writes in his Confessions of his friend Alypius dying. “For I felt that my soul and his were one soul in two bodies, and therefore life was a horror to me, since I did not want to live as a half; and yet I was also afraid to die lest he, whom I had loved so much, would completely die.”
It’s nice to have something to live for?
