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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New Book by Sister Teresa Forcades, És a Les Nostres Mans: Democracy Possible...
At Iglesia Descalza, Rebel Girl offers a translation of an article at the website of the Spanish daily ABC announcing the publication of Sister Teresa Forcades'... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Hans Küng's Can We Save the Catholic Church?: On the Complicity of Theologians i...
A theme that emerges at several points in Hans Küng's book Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013), and which catches my eye, is the... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
More on Archbishop Robert Carlson's Testimony in Minnesota Abuse Cases:...
Last week, I linked to Lily Fowler's article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch regarding the deposition of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson's last month in a sexual... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Copy of Our Wedding Announcement, One Month (and a Day) Down the Road
Well, it has been a month (and a day) since our marriage, and though Friday the 13th might not be the most auspicious day to share this document with you, what... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
New Ways Ministry Claims "No Ethical Reflection Has Been Done" About Firing of...
At the blog of New Ways Ministry, Bondings 2.0, Francis DeBernardo writes, The most troubling issue of the last few months has been the rash of people fired fro... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church?: Implications for U.S. Catholic...
Another reminder of what makes the church the church from Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013):The Church’s credibility... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church? on What Makes Church Church (Hint:...
Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013), on what makes a church a church — at the most fundamental level of all:Without a... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Footnotes: Women, Violence, and Marriage; Irish Homes for Unwed Mothers;...
FootnotesFootnotes to previous discussions here this week:At Slate, Amanda Marcotte responds to W. Bradford Wilcox and Robin Fretwell Wilson's Washington Post... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
As Southern Baptists, Catholic Bishops, and Mormons Keep Gays in Crosshairs,...
While the men leading the Southern Baptists, U.S. Catholics, and Latter Day Saints are shoring up the battlements and notching their arrows for stepped-up war... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
In Two Days, Southern Baptist Convention, U.S. Catholic Bishops, and LDS Church...
Connect the dots:First, this happens: Yet in this time of cultural challenge, the SBC [i.e., Southern Baptist Convention] decided to double down and turn to... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Mark Joseph Stern on NOM's Collapse — "Nothing Left but a Record of Morally...
At Slate, Mark Joseph Stern takes a look at how the National Organization for Marriage, which was once so cocky about its ability to emit an "unremitting... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Mid-Week News Items: Guns and Guys, Right-Wing Extremism, Racism, Misogyny, and...
The following news snippets have to do with political issues including guns, guys, gender and race, violence against women, and the GOP's agenda of total... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Mid-Week News Items: Marriage Equality and Religious Groups
More mid-week news tidbits, these focusing on religion and gay issues (the Cincinnati story discussed below does focus on gay issues, since it's about the... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Mid-Week News Items: Irish Homes for Unwed Mothers, Religious Freedom and...
A selection of snippets from news articles and commentary that have caught my eye in the last day or so — these all on Catholic-related themes:First, several... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church?: Küng Casts Cold Eye on "Monstrous...
In his book Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013) Hans Küng casts a very cold eye on the massive PR-savvy rallies that began to be a... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Archbishop Carlson States He Did Not Know...
This is one of the really stinky sort of Catholic birdcage droppings: in his deposition last month about his period as a bishop of St. Read more
Posted on 10 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Testosterone, Castration, the American Political Right: A Consideration of the...
When I expressed my impatience recently with theories that ground male misbehavior in nature (specifically, in testosterone), Colleen Baker responded with the... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Shootings in Georgia and Las Vegas: Why Do the Media Avoid Stating the Obvious,...
And speaking of the difficulty of ascertaining facts in news stories when the media don't want to do their job and challenge prevailing myths and dominant... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
The Tuam Story: Tablet's Helpful Summary of Salient Facts This Morning
As my posting yesterday about the Tuam story suggests (well, to me, at least), we're now going to see a lot of to-ing and fro-ing with this story. Read more
Posted on 10 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Footnote to Story About Irish Mass Grave: Story Appears Only to Grow Worse
Another footnote today to previous discussions on this blog: last week, in the thread discussing the story of the mass grave of babies and young children found... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY