William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• Jerry Slevin on National Catholic Reporter Censorship Clash

  

  For those who have been following the discussion here of Jerry Slevin's recent censorship by National Catholic Reporter, Jerry has now posted a follow-up piece... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Posting About National Catholic Reporter's Censorship of Jerry Slevin: 847...

  

  It's fascinating to see, this morning, that the posting I made Friday reporting on how National Catholic Reporter has treated Jerry Slevin has had 847 reads (an... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More on Jill Lepore's Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin —...

  

  Some days back, I blogged about Jill Lepore's brilliant history of Jane Franklin Mecom, a sister of Benjamin Franklin, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• National Catholic Reporter Exercises Censorship Again: Jerry Slevin Reports Bein...

  

  An important discussion has been taking place here in the past several days on two different threads. At both threads (cited below), Jerry Slevin reports that h... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thanking You for Recent Comments, and Explaining That I'm Running Behind in...

  Dear Readers,My schedule has been more than usually chopped up with non-blogging commitments lately, and I'm falling behind in thanking you for comments you've... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Catholic Abuse Crisis: Three Recent Stories — Cardinal Pell (Again)...

  

  On the front of the sex-abuse crisis in the Catholic church, there have been several important stories in recent days. I'd like to point readers today to... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: "We Must Not Lose Sight of Michael Brown's Body"

  

  At Moyers Company, Ian Haney López reminds us that, beyond all the heated rhetoric about what has or has not happened in Ferguson, Missouri, lies a human... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Apologies for Absurd Spell-Correct Error

  My apologies to readers that I did not see until now the crazy spell-check correction the automatic-insert program made in my first posting today. I typed... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Talking About Exile: Valuable Testimony from Tom Doyle and Ruth Krall

  

  Yesterday, I looked at the movement now developing among conservative Christians in the U.S. to move the church into exile. The reasoning that lies behind this... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Michael Brown's Eulogy: "This Is About Justice, This Is About Fairness"

  This is about justice, this is about fairness. And America is going to have to come to terms with, there's something wrong. That we have money to give military... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 1 Picture 1000 Words: From Michael Brown's Funeral

  

  The photo is by Richard Perry of New York Times, and shows Michael Brown's father as his son's coffin was lowered into the ground yesterday. Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Fiasco of Evangelical Leader Mark Driscoll: "Something in the Masculine...

  

  Yesterday, I noted that the contemporary discussion of exile among conservative Christians who believe they are losing culture-war battles against women's and... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Translating the News: Police Officers Spout Off About Threats to "Caucasian...

  

  At Talk to Action and the Political Research Associates website, Rachel Tabachnick reports that new video documentation has surfaced about St. Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More on Recent Discussion of Internet Trolling: Common Dreams Catches Trolling...

  

  In the recent past, I posted a link to an interesting article by Farhad Manjoo in the New York Times which suggests that the internet may be losing the war... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Trend in American Christianity to Keep Our Eyes on Now: Talking About Exile

  

  A trend in American Christianity to keep our eyes on now: as Christians of a certain stripe recognize that they may well lose the heated culture-war battles by... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ferguson and Who Gets to Do What to Whom: One Day, Three Videos

  I wrote yesterday that what we're talking about as we talk about Ferguson is, Who gets to build a pen and put other human beings there? And who gets to be... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "What Good Fortune for Those in Power That People Do Not Think": Religion (of a...

  

  Several observations culled from my file of notes from books I've read over the course of many years, which have helped me to see more fully and to understand... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: "Tear Gas Is an Abortifacient. Why Won't the Anti-Abortion...

  

  Michelle Goldberg at The Nation today:Tear gas is an abortifacient. Why won’t the anti-abortion movement oppose it?Why, indeed? Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bibles, Churches, Gays, Religion: Bilgrimage Readers Continue an Important...

  

  Recently, I responded to a question asked by a thoughtful reader of this blog (Bob/tinywriting) about how one determines when Christian groups have gone... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Definitions Belong to the Definer, Not the Defined: What We're Talking About as...

  

  Clever, but schoolteacher whipped him anyway, to show him that definitions belonged to the definers—not the defined (Tony Morrison, Beloved [NY: New American... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY