William Lindsey
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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Alan Jones on Holiness in Our Time: "Finding a Story That Sees the Planet as a...
As a complement to the (admittedly dreary) postings about the canonization of John Paul II with which I'm peppering you these days, I thought I'd reach into... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Joseph Amodeo Leaves Catholic Church: "Has Become a Tradition Steeped in . . ....
As Rome gears up for another expensive canonization spectacle, in which symbols of power, authority, splendor, and wealth loom large, one study after another... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Hot Off the Press: Garry Wills and Michael D'Antonio on Decision to Canonize Joh...
Garry WillsAnd the discussion of the plans to canonize John Paul II continues: here's Garry Wills yesterday in the New York Review of Books (with much... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
More Commentary on John Paul II and His Legacy: Australian Priest Fr. Eric...
Fr. Eric HodgensAnother posting I'd like to lift out of the vault of previous postings here, as the canonization of John Paul II is discussed--this is from... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Michael Sean Winters on USCCB and Affordable Care Act: Role of Lawyers in...
Michael Sean Winters writes about how the lawyers litigating the lawsuits of the Catholic bishops against the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act appear... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
New Jersey Star-Ledger on Cardinal Timothy Dolan's Smoking Gun
And, since the media blitz over the announcement that John Paul II and John XXIII will be canonized together tempts us to forget altogether about that news of... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Catholic Parish Priest on Beatification of JPII: "The Rush to Make This Man a...
John Paul Blesses MacielHere's another article that I find re-circulating right now, after Pope Francis has announced his intent to proceed with the canonizatio... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Reader Writes: "The Whole Sainthood Question Makes Me Cringe"
In what I posted yesterday about the construction of saints, Janet Hanson writes a powerful response noting that the whole process of canonization is premised o... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
"How Much Filth There Is in the Church": Jason Berry on the Flow of Corrupt Mone...
As we continue thinking about and discussing the decision of Pope Francis to continue the plans for canonization of Pope John Paul II, I want to fish another... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
The Construction of Saints: For Whom Is a Particular Saint Made?
In her book Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1990), Edith Wyschogrod writes:All saints are more or less... Read more
Posted on 08 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
John Paul II's Beatification: A Selection of Commentary (Re-Posting)
This morning, another re-posting of something I first published back when the plans to beatify (and then canonize) John Paul II were announced: this is from... Read more
Posted on 08 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
E.J. Dionne on Francis's Decision to Canonize JPII and John XXIII: "One for One...
E.J. Dionne's statement at Commonweal right now about the "saintly politics" Pope Francis is ostensibly using as he canonizes both John Paul II and John XXIII... Read more
Posted on 07 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Colleen Baker on New Papal Encyclical: The Centrality of Touch in the Life of...
In the January 2011 posting about Eugene Kennedy's commentary on the beatification of John Paul II that I just re-posted, I wrote, And here's the problem, of... Read more
Posted on 07 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Eugene Kennedy on John Paul II's Beatification: The Saint Who Kept Looking Away...
I published this piece back in January 2011. With the announcement this past week by Pope Francis that he is moving the canonization of John Paul II forward,... Read more
Posted on 07 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: David Brooks's "Neurologically Miraculous" Cognitive Dissonance...
At Huffington Post, Marty Kaplan observes that David Brooks appears, well, a tad bit irony-challenged, if he's capable of writing the following stinging... Read more
Posted on 06 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Mary Ann McGivern Speaks of Brothers' Deat...
Sister of Loretto Mary Ann McGivern publishes a thoughtful (and anguished) statement about how her own family's struggle to deal with the death of two of her... Read more
Posted on 06 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
John Paul's Canonization: Why Many Catholics Dissent
With the recent announcement that the new pope intends to honor his predecessor's decision to fast-track the canonization of that pope's predecessor John Paul... Read more
Posted on 06 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
End-of-Week Commentary: Catholic Bishops' Fortnight for Freedom, DOMA and...
At his Spiritual Politics blog, Mark Silk maintains that "[t]he USCCB ought to be embarrassed" about the bizarre sideshow into which the Fortnight for Freedom... Read more
Posted on 05 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Spanish Theologian Juan José Tamayo on What the Rebellion of Women Portends for...
Juan José TamayoAt Iglesia Descalza, Rebel Girl offers a translation of the inaugural lecture that Spanish theologian Juan José Tamayo gave on 28 June at the... Read more
Posted on 05 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Remembering An Aunt on Her Birthday
On this day in 1914, my mother's oldest sister Kat was born--Samantha Katherine Simpson, named for her grandmothers Samantha Jane Braselton Simpson and Catherin... Read more
Posted on 05 July 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY