William Lindsey

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• Pew Report on the "Francis Effect" on U.S. Catholic Church as First-Year...

  

  Some solid empirical data on what the "Francis effect" is accomplishing in the U.S. Catholic church up to now: the Pew Research Center recently released a repor... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Benedict Critiqued Francis's Interview About Church of "Small-Minded Rules": You...

  

  I haven't seen any mention of this interesting story at Catholic news sites today. I haven't seen much mention of it at all, in fact, after I first read it at... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Feminist Theologians on the Bible and Slavery and Christian Theology and Skin...

  

  Two interlocking quotations from feminist theologians I've been reading lately--Delores S. Williams and Ivone Gebara:Delores S. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Richard Kim on Why Gays Can't "Accept a Polite Culture War Truce by Letting...

  

  At The Nation, Richard Kim asks, "So why can’t gays accept a polite culture war truce by letting 'the dissenters opt out?'" He provides five answers to his... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: If Pope to Be Believed, He Must Not Only Talk, but Change...

  

  Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson shares his hopes for Pope Francis and his agenda of reform: If Pope Francis is to be believed in all the kindly pronouncements... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sister Elizabeth Johnson Talks About Her Vocation as a Theologian: "There Were...

  

  At BuzzFeed, a marvelous article by Jamie Manson surveying the theological career of Sister Elizabeth Johnson, whose book Quest for the Living God was... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On St. Patrick's Day: On the Forgetting of Irish Americans (Including Paul Ryan)

  

  As St. Patrick's day arrives, interesting commentary about the grand irony of Irish-American history--that a people who arrived in the U.S. Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remembering My Brother's Death: A Memorial Reflection About Fathers and Sons (an...

  

  I've mentioned here in the past that my brother Simpson (Patrick Simpson Lindsey was his full name) died on 14 March 1991 at the age of 39, as my mother, my... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religious Freedom and Special Rights to Discriminate: Three Takes (Two Noting Ho...

  

  Three takes on the argument that religious people in the U.S. deserve special rights when it comes to the "right" to discriminate against gay folks (and how tha... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Irish Television Documentary on Maciel and the Legion of Christ and the Francis...

  

  John XXIII knew.Paul VI knew.John Paul II knew. Benedict XVI knew.The story told in the recent RTÉ documentary about Marcial Maciel and the Legion of Christ... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Bishop Accountability Releases Important New Document Studying Pope Francis's...

  

  Today, the group Bishop Accountability has just uploaded to its website an important new document examining Pope Francis's record on abuse cases in Argentina,... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mark O'Connell on How Anti-Gay Laws Make Targets of All of Us

  

  Therapist Mark O'Connell points out what I've tried to say over and over here about laws targeting gay citizens and making them susceptible to discrimination... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Holly Welker on Why It Makes Sense for a Religious Commentary Blogsite to Pay...

  

  Holly Welker on why it makes sense for a blog like Religion Dispatches to include a Mormon blogger like herself, when Mormons represent only 2% of the U.S.... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Anti-Gay Movement and Jim Crow: Historian Carolyn Dupont on Role of Religion in...

  

  A tactic frequently used by those who resist seeing the current call for religiously grounded discrimination against gays as akin to the resistance of white... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• NCR Report on Vatican Questionnaire in U.S.: Only One-Third of Dioceses Made It...

  

  For those following the discussion of the questionnaire that the Vatican asked bishops around the world to make available to Catholic laypersons in advance of... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Frank Cocozzelli on Continuing Spectacle of Convicted Criminal Bishop Robert...

  

  Frank Cocozzelli on the continuing spectacle of convicted criminal Bishop Robert Finn, who refuses to relinquish his bishop's seat in Kansas City despite calls... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Robert Boston on Religious Freedom: If It Requires Government "Help" to Enforce...

  

  At Religion Dispatches, Robert Boston talks about his new book Taking Liberties: Why Religious Freedom Doesn't Give You the Right to Tell Other People What to D... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On the Increasingly Wild Claims of Religious Right That It's Being Ghettoized...

  

  Frank Strong on the absurd (and growing) meme of the anti-gay religious right, as it claims that bullying gays are ghettoizing "Christians":This is not the... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ivone Gebara on the Violence of the World's Main Religions Against Women, and...

  

  In my posting several days ago, I cited Ivone Gebara's Out of the Depths: Women’s Experience of Evil and Salvation, trans. and intro. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Meinrad Craighead: Divine Mother and Clouds of Invisible Witnesses

  

  Jayden Cameron has a beautiful posting up at his Gay Mystics blog site right now, focusing on artist-mystic Meinrad Craighead. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY