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 Michael Sam's Coming Out: Powerful Testimony of Texas Sportscaster and...
Dallas, Texas, sportscaster Dale Hansen says,I'm not always comfortable when a man tells me he's gay. I don't understand his world. But I do understand that he'... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
John Corvino, What's Wrong with Homosexuality?: "It's Not Natural" (2)
Here are two more excerpts from John Corvino's book What’s Wrong with Homosexuality? (NY: Oxford UP, 2013). As with the last two I've posted here, these are fro... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin Responds to Pantigate Controversy: "Anybody Wh...
The archbishop takes sides with the drag queen.That's how Fred Clark (Slacktivist) sums up* the recent comments of Dublin archbishop Diarmuid Martin on Irish... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
On the Firing of Pregnant and Unmarried Teachers in Catholic Schools: My Take
In case any reader of Bilgrimage wonders, it goes without saying that I oppose the recent firing of Shaela Evenson by Butte Central Catholic school in Montana... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Univision Poll: Global Fracture Lines in Catholic Church Over Family Issues, wit...
As Conrad Noll points out in a comment here last evening, the Univision poll about which I blogged yesterday (and briefly on Sunday), has been very much in the... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: "The Holy See Did Itself No Favours by Not Delivering the...
Father Hans Zollner, SJChrista Pongratz-Lippitt and Robert Mickens report for The Tablet on Father Hans Zollner's recent remarks to Vatican Radio about the... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Correcting a Mistake: Univision Poll of Catholics Re: Issues of Sexual Ethics...
I made a mistake several days ago, and want to let you all know about it--and to correct the misinformation I posted. On Sunday, I mentioned briefly a recent... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Chris Kluwe on Michael Sam's Coming Out, Amanda Terkel on Woody Allen:...
Two observations that stand out for me in recent news reports: at Huffington Post, Amanda Terkel quotes Chris Kluwe's response to the anonymous claims of NFL... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
James Carroll on Vatican's "Shameless Dodge" in U.N. Hearing, and Its "Terrible...
It's a recommendation to me when the (self-appointed) centrist gatekeepers of the American Catholic conversation like Michael Sean Winters (and here and here) a... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Moral Marches in North Carolina and Progressive Solidarity: A Developing Meme
An important meme is developing about the Moral Monday marches in North Carolina regarding which I blogged glancingly several days ago. Read more
Posted on 11 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
John Corvino, What's Wrong with Homosexuality?: "It's Not Natural"
Some more sharp observations from John Corvino's book What’s Wrong with Homosexuality? (NY: Oxford UP, 2013)--these from his chapter on natural-law arguments... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
National Catholic Reporter Plans to Re-Open Comments Threads: See Helpful...
It seems I'm issuing versions of PSAs today. I've just told you all about the NPR Worldview program regarding the recent U.N. report about the Vatican's handlin... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: "UN's Message to the Church Is Stark. If You Want to Be a State,...
In the Irish Independent Brendan O'Connor argues that we must not allow our "outrage fatigue" amidst a ceaseless stream of reports about the cover-up of sexual... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Taking A Close Look at the "Church Teaching" That Vatican Media Apologists...
For Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), David Clohessy responds to Austen Ivereigh's claim that the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Brief Takes from Week's News Commentary: Russia, Russia, Russia (and Nigeria)
Russia: Homophobia is all but dead, they say. Think again. What’s going on in Russia is absolutely terrifying. Russia: Along with Putin and the plutocrats, the... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: "When Tribalism Takes Over" (with Commentary on the Tribalistic...
Steve Benen at Maddow Blog:It’s amazing what tribalism can do to public perceptions.Indeed. Case in point: just have a look at what the lock-arms, tribalistic... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Catholic Families and Human Rights Institute Simultaneously Defends Putin's...
In my posting earlier today about Jeff Sharlet on the lives of gay Russians, I linked to Peter Montgomery's latest Religion Dispatches roundup of weekly global... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
From Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on "Duck Dynasty" to Vatican Enablers Attacking U.N....
Here's what fascinates me in this Media Matters video in which Gretchen Carlson of Fox News interviews Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Wendy Griffith about "Duck... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Jeff Sharlet on Life Inside Russia's Iron Closet: A Must-Read Report
As Peter Montgomery says in his recap of global LGBT stories this week at Religion Dispatches, Jeff Sharlet's GQ report on being gay in Russia is a must-read... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Story of 9-Year-Old Brazilian Girl the Kin...
At America, Molly Roach offers a powerful rejoinder to Vatican officials and their media enablers who want to pooh-pooh the recent U.N. Read more
Posted on 07 February 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY