William Lindsey

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• Australian PM Debates Homosexuality with an Australian Pastor: "What Is the...

  As he says in the preceding interview for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has thought through the issue of marriage... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Professor William J. Dohar on Why No U.S. Bishops Stood by Pope Francis When He...

  

  William J. DoharAnd it's not only Professor Charles J. Reid who's speaking out about the Catholic church's treatment of gay folks: at Religion Dispatches,... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Professor Charles Reid to U.S. Catholic Institutions on Labor Day: "Stop Firing...

  

  Charles J. ReidFor Labor Day, here was University of St. Thomas Professor of Law Charles J. Reid's recommendation to Catholic institutions, especially Catholic... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Labor Day: Reflections on Work and Labor from All Over the Place

  Comments from all over the place that have caught the eye of my magpie mind as I read over the years, on the themes of labor and of work (you'll find one or bot... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kiva, Strathmore University, and Opus Dei: The Rest of the Story (Up to the...

  

  So here's an update about what has been happening in the discussion of the choice of Kiva, a charitable non-profit that claims to support gay rights, to... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Footnote to Discussion of Bottum's Essay on Gay Marriage and the Re-Enchantment...

  

  A footnote to my discussion yesterday of Matthew Boudway's round-up of conservative commentary about Joseph Bottum's Commonweal essay on Catholics and marriage... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Discussion of Joseph Bottum's Essay on Gay Marriage Continues: Re-Enchanting...

  

  At Commonweal, Matthew Boudway surveys the responses of conservative critics to the essay that Joseph Bottum published recently in Commonweal about Catholics an... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kathleen Reardon on Syria: Why Should We Believe Them This Time?

  

  Kathleen Reardon asks another very important question about the current round of cowboy war-mongering in D.C.: Why should we believe them this time? As she... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Footnote to Previous Discussion of Kiva and Opus Dei University in Kenya

  

  A footnote to what I posted several days ago about the controversy in the GLBT group at the website of the charitable non-profit Kiva after Kiva chose to suppor... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kendra Weddle Irons on Gender Complementarity and the Christian Right:...

  

  At her Ain't I a Woman blog, Kendra Weddle Irons explains why the notion of gender complementarity and of female submission to male rule loom so large in the... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remembering Seamus Heaney: Imagining a World with a "Less Binary and Altogether...

  

  Irish poet Seamus Heaney died today. In his 1995 Nobel lecture, he tells the story of St. Kevin of Glendalough. As Kevin knelt at prayer one day, his arms... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• As U.S. Is Poised for Another Cowboy War, Need for Expedited Action Remains...

  Steve Benen at Maddow Blog on what Huffington Post's lead headline* this morning is calling the next in line of America's "cowboy wars":The need for such... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Blake Hounshell on the Moral Arc of the Universe and Syria: "It Bends Toward...

  "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward targeted airstrikes on a limited subset of Syria's military infrastructure. Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• End-of-Week Hodgepodge: On Defining Others, Bayard Rustin, Hate and Religion,...

  1. The video at the head of the posting: when I visited my YouTube page yesterday (where YouTube keeps giving me helpful suggestions about new videos I may... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Brazilian Theologian Ivone Gebara on Pope Francis and "Theology of Women"

  

  Ivone GebaraIn an interview with Instituto Humanitas Unisinos helpfully translated into English by Rebel Girl at her Iglesia Descalza site, Brazilian... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for the Day: Fred Clark Tears Gospel Coalition a New One

  

  At his Slacktivist blog site, Fred Clark suggests (tongue firmly planted in cheek) that it's certainly theoretically possible to side with ruthless dictators wh... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sister Jeannine Gramick Tells a Story of a Transgendered Young Man: Catholic...

  

  At National Catholic Reporter, Sister Jeannine Gramick discusses the case of Isaac Gomez, who was born biologically female, but who identified as male from earl... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Today in History: Martin Luther King, Jr. Has a Dream

  

  50 years on, the fight continues for universal human rights Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Huffington Post Cracks Down on Commenters Spreading Toxic Memes: Will Catholic...

  

  At Huffington Post, Jimmy Soni explains why that website is now ending anonymous accounts for commenters: while HuffPo will continue to allow people to comment... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Charitable Non-Profit Kiva Under Fire for Support of Opus Dei University in Kenya

  

  A few years ago, a reader of Bilgrimage whom I greatly esteem recommended the organization Kiva to me. She's a first-rate human being, a practicing Catholic, a... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY