William Lindsey
I'm a theologian who writes about the interplay of belief and culture, spirituality and its connection to social activism, challenging the religious right's claim to own God, calling the churches to accountability for injustice to LGBT persons, creating dialogue with anyone who wants to build a more humane world, and stopping bullying of LGBT youth in schools.
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Bilgrimage
http://www.bilgrimage.blogspot.com/
Me on pilgrimage, sharing my journey to hope's horizon . . . . I'm a theologian who writes about the interplay of belief and culture, spirituality and its connection to social activism, challenging the religious right's claim to own God, calling the churches to accountability for injustice to LGBT persons, creating dialogue with anyone who wants to build a more humane world, and stopping bullying of LGBT youth in schools.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )
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More on Controversy About Baptizing Children of Same-Sex Couples: David Gibson...
And speaking of definitions of family and insider-outsider lines that seek to make some families more significant, normative, meaningful, or "traditional" than... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
"Traditional" Family and the Bible: Snapshots from Recent Discussions of the...
Matthew 12: 46-48In her recent book, How the West Really Lost God, Mary Eberstadt argues that the decline of the traditional family has led to the secularizatio... Read more
Posted on 29 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Cooking to Save the Planet: Lentil Soup
Lentils first came to my attention when I went to college in New Orleans and stayed to work there a number of years, returning after I finished graduate... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Religion and the Struggle for Rights for Women and Gay Folks Today: Fred Clark o...
I've repeatedly noted here my frustration that many of those commenting on civil rights issues today, particularly within the academic and journalistic... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
As Same-Sex Couples Bring Children for Baptism, How Will Church Respond: Purity...
Here's an example of what I meant when I just wrote, "The testimony of the prophets is very clear about these issues: love, justice, and mercy trump purity code... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
More on Strange Confluence of Concern of LDS, Catholic, and Right-Wing...
Yesterday, I wrote about how strange (but not strange in the least, as we think about it) it is that religious communities so wildly unlike as the LDS church,... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Footnote to Footnote to Footnote: The Story of the Home for Unwed Mothers in...
A footnote to a footnote to a footnote: some days back, I noted that in the initial thread here discussing the story of the unmarked graves of children and... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
What Do the LDS Church and the Catholic Church Have in Common These Days? Think...
What do the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Catholic church, and the churches of the right wing of American evangelicalism have in common? Read more
Posted on 26 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Weekend Party Celebrating Our Marriage: Love Does Matter (No Matter What Catholi...
I've been away from the blog for several days, dear friends, because Steve and I organized a little party this past Saturday to celebrate our marriage with loca... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
What Do You Do When Everyone Else Throws a Human Rights Party, but Your Church...
What do you do when you belong — when you chose to belong — to a church which preaches that every human being deserves human rights, including the right to work... Read more
Posted on 20 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Tweets About NOM's "March for (Some People's) Marriage"
Some of the best tweets so far from #March4Marriage hashtag feed and elsewhere on Twitter, about the National Organization for Marriage's "March for (Some... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Republican Captivity" of USCCB, and...
Bob Waldrop, founder of the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma City, writing at his Bobaganda! website: In the future, when sufficient time has... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
New "Secret, Shadowy Version of NOM" Formed: Continuing Thick Ties of National...
Interesting news about the National Organization for Marriage, which is staging the "March for (Some People's) Marriage" in Washington, DC, today: Jeremy... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage 2.0: What Do Fortnights, Marriage Marches,...
More birdcage droppings for you today (these are definitely the stinky kind):All at the very same time — surprise! — • The U.S. Read more
Posted on 18 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Stories We're Finally Old Enough to Tell: My Grandmother's Sunday School Report
Mississippi (and Arkansas and Louisiana) writer Ellen Douglas waited until she was in her late 70s to publish her book entitled Truth: Four Stories I Am... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Mid-Week News Snippets: Teresa Forcades on Gay Love, Cordileone and NOM,...
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video ArchiveAt Gay Mystic, Jayden Cameron uses the occasion of the... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Phil Lawler Upbraids Bill Donohue for...
At CatholicCulture, Phil Lawler (no bleeding-heart liberal, he), takes Bill Donohue to task for his continued insistence that Archbishop Robert Carlson is... Read more
Posted on 18 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Iraq Situation, the Media, and the "Festival of the Undead Wrong" (with...
To call the following a meme among commentators looking at American news and mainstream media in the last three days would be a vast understatement (there are... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Matthew Fox on Benedict XVI (in Introduction to Norbert Krapf's Catholic Boy...
I'm doing a lot of reading lately, and it occurs to me to share the fruits of that labor with you by way of snippets from things I'm reading, with occasional... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Hans Küng's Can We Save the Catholic Church? on Anti-Vatican II Decision of...
Three more passages from Hans Küng's book Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013) that leap out at me as the U.S. Read more
Posted on 17 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY