William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• Gratitude: A Story from Our Recent Trip

  

  Gratitude is the highest form of acceptance. Like patience, it is one of the catalytic agents, one of the alchemist's secrets, for turning dross to gold, hell t... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Purity and Danger: On the Racist Subtext of Current U.S. Debates About Latino...

  

  Some days lately as I read the news, I wonder, "Did Mary Douglas have some kind of crystal ball that allowed her to see fifty years into the future when she... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Signposts on a Spiritual Journey: "It Is Such an Irony. The Holy Land Has Such...

  

  Photograph: Petri Storlöpare, www.slowlife.seWhen we return from our trip last week, a postcard from our friends John and Andre is waiting for us. They're... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "The Bodies Become Fully United At, Well,...

  

  At the Little Catholic Bubble blog site, Bethany writes,The bodies become fully united at, well, to be blunt, ejaculation in the vagina, thus fulfilling the... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• We Go, We Return, We Fall Down, We Get Up: On Life Journeys As Spiritual Journey...

  

  The view from Bobonong, she mused: was that how the world looked to Mma Makutsi? It seemed an odd thing to say, and yet all of us had a view from somewhere, a... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• We Go, We Return, We Fall Down, We Get Up: On Life Journeys As Spiritual Journeys

  

  You were almost right, coolmom: though we didn't go to Minneapolis on our trip last week, it was definitely a Midwestern trek, from Fayetteville, Arkansas, to... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Brief Hiatus

  

  Dear Friends,I apologize to you for being slow to acknowledge your many valuable comments on postings here of late. I've fallen considerably behind, and have... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography: "It Is Because the...

  

  Last week, I noted that in his new book Darling: A Spiritual Autibiography (NY: Viking, 2013), Richard Rodriguez continues a theme that appears in his previous... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In the News: Sixth Mass Extinction of Species Now Underway

  

  In her review of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction (NY: Henry Holt, 2014), Louise Rubacky notes that Kolbert's thesis — that humankind has precipitated... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Now the Star Tribune: Top Minneapolis Paper Calls on Nienstedt to Resign

  

  And now the Minneapolis Star Tribune:But the continued presence of the embattled [Archbishop John] Nienstedt in the chancery increases the likelihood that... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Members of Theology Faculty of St. Thomas University, St. Paul: We Need "New...

  

  Brian Roewe reports today that five members of the theology faculty of St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota — Cara Anthony, Corrine Carvalho, Sherry... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tom Reese on Catholic Bishops' Opposition to Executive Order Forbidding...

  

  Father Thomas Reese, SJ, on the U.S. Catholic bishops' bitter and mean-spirited (my words, not his) opposition to President Obama's executive order forbidding... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• In the News at Week's End: Pastoral (?) Leadership (?) in Catholic Church,...

  

  Michael Bayly, The Wild Reed:I find myself thinking of and agreeing with Colleen Kochivar-Baker's contention that it's actually the system of the cultic... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Richard Rodriguez, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography: "Until the Desert...

  

  I'm reading Richard Rodriguez's book Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (NY: Viking, 2013) right now. A theme running through the book is the distinctiveness... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Frank Cocozzelli on Opus Dei Ties of Supreme Catholic Men: "I Am Concerned...

  

  In light of the recent Hobby Lobby ruling of the five Supreme Catholic men, Talk to Action has chosen to republish an outstanding series of articles Frank... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rod Dreher on Nienstedt Story and Jennifer Haselberger Affidavit: "In the Presen...

  

  Conservative columnist Rod Dreher, who left the Catholic church due to the disclosures about the abuse situation when the abuse broke wide open in 2002 and... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: John Corvino on Real Agenda of Social...

  

  At Commonweal, John Corvino responds to Michael Hannon's essay "Against Heterosexuality" in First Things. As he notes, it employs (a little bit of) queer... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gays, Churches, and Religious Exemptions to Practice Discrimination: Centrist...

  

  The meme that just won't die in American political life: that there's some kind of "center" in which the conflicting (in many cases, irreconcilable) claims of... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Michael Sean Winters on U.S. Catholic Bishops' Response to Executive Order...

  

  Yesterday, with a nod to Mark Silk, I wrote that you'd expect the U.S. Catholic bishops to be reeling right now from what Jennifer Haselberger's recent affidavi... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• New Minnesota NPR Report on Cover-up in St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese:...

  

  Not to be missed: Madeleine Baran's stellar four-part series "Betrayed by Silence" published today at the website of Minnesota NPR. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY