William Lindsey
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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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Things This Blog Has Been Called This Week — A Grim Place of Wild Claims and...
Things this blog has been called in public in this week after I posted a posting about Jerry Slevin's recent censorship by National Catholic Reporter:1.... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Correcting Two Mistakes in Yesterday's Postings Re: Elizabeth Warren and Larry...
In two of my postings yesterday, I posted incorrect information. I want to correct the mistakes in both postings:1. In my posting about Elizabeth Warren and... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Belated Happy Birthday to Scott Lentine!
I've mentioned to you all before (and here) the poetry of Scott Lentine, a young man in Massachusetts who contacted me by email several years ago, and has share... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Two More Saturday A.M. Quotes: "The Disparagement of Their Sexual Orientation . ...
Two more quotes for this lazy end-of-summer Saturday morning:1. Judge Richard Posner on behalf of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, as it struck... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: Elizabeth Warren on What Larry Summers Told Her When She Arrived...
Elizabeth Warren on what Larry Summers told her when she arrived in D.C. as a Massachusetts senator (the quotation is from her memoir A Fighting Chance, by way... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Another Weekend, Another Discussion of Censorship: You Don't Build a Credible...
Last year, as I tried to drum up discussion about what seems to me a serious shortcoming of the way National Catholic Reporter moderates comments at its... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
National Catholic Reporter's Call for Archbishop Nienstedt to Be Transparent...
As Jerry Slevin pointed out in a posting at his Christian Catholicism site yesterday, in various threads, readers of National Catholic Reporter articles continu... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "I Wonder What Justice Scalia Has to Say...
Because isn't he not only a Catholic, but one who frequently claims that his Catholic values infuse everything he does as a Supreme Court justice — and who has... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
More on War on Obamacare As a War on Minorities and the Poor
I recently wrote that there are some compelling reasons why the states of the old Confederacy are, as a bloc, now the holdout states when it comes to expansion... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Compare/Contrast: A Black Man Carrying a Steak Knife Confronts Police; A White...
I recently wrote that the critically important question the Ferguson, Missouri, story is asking us is this:Who has the right to do what to whom? Read more
Posted on 05 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
"The Republican Party's Vision for the Family": On the Rise and Fall of...
Rachel Maddow, commenting in the video clip above on how "family man" Bob McDonnell's wife-dumping defense failed him yesterday when the court hearing his case... Read more
Posted on 05 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
More Recent Discussion of Problem of Online Trolls (and Misogyny): Questions...
More in the ongoing discussion of the damage trolls (and heavy-handed censorship) are doing to online discussion spaces: at Salon yesterday, Colin McEnroe argue... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Death Penalty in News: New Evidence Exonerates Men for Whom Supreme Court Justic...
As the New York Times notes today, a judicial development in North Carolina this week provides a "textbook example" of much that is broken in the American... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Recurring Theme Regarding Pope Francis: Why Does Rhetoric About Poverty Always...
Writing recently in The Guardian, Tina Beattie argues persuasively that Pope Francis has done little to improve the lives of women. Read more
Posted on 04 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Another Day, Another Firing of Gay Teachers in Catholic Institution in U.S.:...
This is, unfortunately, not really news, is it? The protagonists change, the place shifts, the circumstances vary slightly from story to story. Read more
Posted on 03 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Expansion of Medicaid Under Affordable Care Act: The Elephant in the Living...
Yesterday, I linked to an article by Stephen Mihm in the Boston Globe in which Mihm notes that socioeconomic inequality thrives in the states of the old... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
National Catholic Reporter Responds to Jerry Slevin's Request for Information...
Jerry Slevin has now received an email from Dennis Coday, National Catholic Reporter's editor, responding to Jerry's request for information about why he... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Another New Statement by Jerry Slevin on His Experience of Censorship at Nationa...
For those who followed the discussion here over the weekend of Jerry Slevin's recent censorship by National Catholic Reporter — here, here, and here — Jerry... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
In the News: Children and Guns, A, B, C
A. First there was this: A 9-year-old girl from New Jersey accidentally shot and killed her instructor with an Uzi submachine gun [at a shooting range in... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
In the News: Southern White Men and Unions, Legacy of Slavery and Regional...
Some recent news items that have caught my attention. I find some common threads in them. Do you?First, Edward McClelland comments on the well-known antipathy o... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY
