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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Stephen Fry to British Government and IOC: "An Absolute Ban on the Russian Winte...
Not to be missed as this work week ends: Stephen Fry's impassioned, articulate open letter to David Cameron and the International Olympics Committee pleading fo... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
John Fugelsang's Takedown of "Right Wing Insanely Fake Christian Hate-Monkey...
As the week ends, for instruction mixed with a bit of levity (instructive levity?), I highly recommend John Fugelsang's zingy, right-on-target takedown of the... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Struggle for Gay Welcome and Inclusion in United Methodist Churches: A Report...
The struggle about justice and inclusion, about love and compassion for those who are made gay by God is hardly confined to the Catholic church, by the way. Read more
Posted on 09 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Rhode Island Priest Attacks Gay-Friendly Legislators, Wisconsin Priest Boots...
I said yesterday that some days, the news seems to come to us pre-packaged in novelistic form: headline links to headline, as if we're reading a single... Read more
Posted on 09 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Reader Responds: "Church's Homophobia Is So Obsessive That They've Lowered...
Brian Gallagher responds (brilliantly) to my report last evening about the discussion thread now underway at Commonweal which exhibits--in spades--the glaring... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Frank Cocozzelli's Critique of the Neo-Confederate Views of Thomas E. Woods: A...
As a footnote to what I just posted about the seeming rise, in many places of the world, of overtly racist and homophobic movements that seem to hark back to... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Reading Signs of Times: Race-Baiting and Gay-Bashing in America, Ruthless...
Some days, you wake up, begin reading the news, and it's as if an entire book--a gripping novel--is right in front of your eyes. Article segues into article,... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Commonweal Thread Underway Now: Gay Sinners Violate Church Teaching, Straight...
I wrote yesterday that it takes a huge amount of chutzpah for heterosexual Catholics to continue to pretend that what gay Catholics do (and who gay Catholics... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Ross Douthat: What Are Conservative Catholics to Do with Francis?
To be honest, I don't really read Ross Douthat. I can't take the man seriously. But since several blogs I routinely scan for news and news commentary have linke... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Summertime Poem: Figs for Birds
What messageDo the gifties gie usWhen figs ripenOnly as the heat indexReaches one one twelve,And it's too hotTo go outsideAnd pick the sweet ripe fruit,Lending ... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
The High Price of Letting Men Make "God" in Their Own Image: A Selection of...
We profess that men and women are created in the image and likeness of God, but as men we have created God in our own image. And this God is very small, very... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Commonweal Admits Defeat Re: Marriage Equality, Commonweal Hears an Earful in...
So, there's this:*It is now time to listen and learn from those the church has long silenced or ignored. Who knows, those being listened to might even return th... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Commonweal Admits Defeat Re: Marriage Equality, Commonweal Hears an Earful in...
Commonweal recently published an editorial about the Supreme Court decisions re: DOMA and prop 8 that I read, frankly, as a statement of defeat on the part of... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "We Have Made Our Catholic Church the...
TMacCathmhaoil in a thread at National Catholic Reporter responding to commentary by Michael Sean Winters about the attempt of some right-wing prelates to... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Anniversary of Bombing of Hiroshima: Hearing the Voice of Holy Sophia in a Churc...
What message, I ask myself today, is Holy Sophia giving to the church, the world--to me--when the very same people who use my Catholic faith to attack gays and... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Andrew Brown: "The Church Is Now Run by Men Who Have Solemnly and Deliberately...
Andrew BrownLast week, I highlighted a statement of Andrew Brown, Kate Connolly, and Liz Davies in The Guardian about the "huge task" that Pope Francis now... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
More on Pope Francis's Recent Statements About Women in the Church: "With All Du...
And, to complement what I have just posted about theologian Matthew Fox's open letter to Pope Francis, which insists that compassion exists at the intersection... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Matthew Fox to Pope Francis: "With All My Heart I Hope Your Papacy Is One of...
Matthew FoxTheologian (and former Catholic priest) Matthew Fox writes Pope Francis an impassioned, theologically rich open letter in the Jewish journal of... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY -
The "Daily Show" and The Onion on Pope Saying Gay
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on FacebookAnd for a bit of end-of-/beginning-of-wee... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Father James Martin, SJ, on Pope Francis's New Style of Mercy as Substantive...
Micah 6:8In a reflection on Pope Francis the merciful for Washington Post, Father James Martin notes that the turbulence on the papal flight from Brazil back... Read more
Posted on 04 August 2013 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY
