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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Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church?: Küng's Diagnosis of a Church Sick...
I'm nearing the end of Hans Küng's book Can We Save the Catholic Church? (London: William Collins, 2013), about which I began blogging several days ago. Read more
Posted on 09 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Further Updates, Same-Sex Marriage in Arkansas: Democrat-Gazette Publishes...
Last week, I expressed doubt about whether my state's newspaper of record, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, would publish Judge Wendell Griffen's rejoinder to an... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
"There's Doctor Em," Steve Says, and the Giftie Holds a Looking Glass Up to My...
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!" Robbie Burns wrote. Here's the shiny, shaming looking glass the ever-active little... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Wisconsin Judge Crabb to Defenders of Traditional Marriage: You Do Understand...
Federal Judge Barbara Crabb in her ruling yesterday (pdf file) striking down the Wisconsin ban on same-sex marriage:As an initial matter, defendants and amici... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Patricia Miller on Why Paul VI Kept Ban on Birth Control: Maintaining...
In an excerpt (-cum-adaptation) from her book Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church (Oakland: University of California Press, 2014)... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Andrew Sullivan, Et Al., on Testosterone, Tradition, and Natural Law in the...
Andrew Sullivan says that he (along with Ross Douthat) is "kinda tired of" arguments like Fredrik DeBoer's recent assertion that the "association of male value... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Hans Küng, Can We Save the Catholic Church?: An Excerpt Re: President George W....
I've mentioned in the comboxes here in the past several days that I'm now reading Hans Küng's new book Can We Save the Catholic Church?, trans. Dr. Read more
Posted on 06 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
End-of-Week News Roundup: Venus, Mars, Ongoing Discussion of Misogyny and...
More links — these, to recent articles and commentary continuing the discussion of misogyny in the U.S (and other cultures) in the wake of the Isla Vista... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
End-of-Week News Roundup: Religion and Politics, Marriage Equality, Theology...
A selection of articles I've read in the past few days that make noteworthy points — the following mostly religion-themed in one way or another:Oliver Roy... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Marriage Equality in Arkansas with Rallies, Flying Fur, Duelling Bible Verses,...
As a footnote to my previous posting about what has been happening on the marriage equality front in Arkansas since our supremes stayed same-sex marriages, I'd... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
The Marriage Equality Situation in Arkansas, An Update: Rallies, Editorials...
So it occurs to me to update you all about what has been going on in Arkansas since our supremes stayed marriage equality. Shortly after the stay, this happened. Read more
Posted on 05 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Andrew Sullivan on Mass Grave of Irish Babies Born to "Fallen Women": "That Is...
Andrew Sullivan looks at discovery of the bodies of 800 babies in a mass grave (they were stuffed inside a septic tank) behind a home for "fallen women" run by... Read more
Posted on 04 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: GM Ignition Switches, Church Leaders Who...
In a recent op-ed for the New Jersey Star-Ledger, clergy abuse survivor Mark Crawford asks how it can be that the federal government can take action (after year... Read more
Posted on 04 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Pope Francis Announces He'll Meet with Abuse Survivors; Colleen Baker on "Keepin...
At Enlightened Catholicism, Colleen Baker sees the story of the abuse crisis in the Catholic church as the story that keeps "changing spots," which is "still th... Read more
Posted on 04 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Cardinal Dolan's Recent Paean to Free-Market Capitalism Ghost-Authored by...
At Religion Dispatches, Patricia Miller writes, Former CNBC host Larry Kudlow is bragging on Twitter that he helped Cardinal Timothy Dolan with his recent... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Double Canonization Doesn't Lead to...
The following snippet is from a statement issued by the Spanish Asociación de Teólogas y Teólogos Juan XXIII at the end of May, re: the double canonizations of... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Ta-Nehisi Coates's Case for Reparations: Do We Really Want to Know About the...
John Stewart cleverly suggests that we don't want to know the truth — not about the recent Isla Vista shootings and the deep roots of misogyny that constantly... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Postscript to "Normal Heart" Discussion: An Entry from My Journal of July 1992...
As a postscript to what I posted last week about Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" and to the discussion that posting evoked about the AIDS crisis of the 1980s... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Rebecca Solnit on Struggle to Name the Significance of Isla Vista Shootings as...
In yesterday's New York Times, Charles Blow continues the post-Isla Vista drumbeat of insistence that men, all men, need to face the fact that we're at the... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Andrew O'Hehir on How Elliot Rodger Is All Men's Problem
Andrew O'Hehir gets right down to brass tacks: What troubles me is the extent to which many men seek to ignore or deflect all conversation about the specific... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY