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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DOMA Decision and Voting Rights Act Decision: We Stand Together Or We Fall...
I want to lift a statement I made at the end of my posting yesterday about the initial Twitter commentary re: the Supreme Court and DOMA, and place it in a... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Commentary About Response of Religious Bodies to SCOTUS Decision Striking Down...
For those seeking commentary about the response of various religious bodies to yesterday's SCOTUS decision striking down DOMA, a wealth of good material has com... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Lay Catholics in Support of Gay Rights: Statements After SCOTUS DOMA Decision
Meanwhile, on the planet on which most of us human beings (as opposed to His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone) live, here... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Dolan and Cordileone Speak Out About DOMA Decision: No Catholic Church Bells to...
Yesterday, I noted how, under the leadership of His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the U.S. Catholic bishops have as a body invested much time, money, and... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Whither the U.S. Bishops Now, After SCOTUS, with Majority of Conservative...
In the oh, dear, oh, dear! category: what will His Eminence who leads the flock of U.S. Catholic bishops, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, be saying now that the... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Reactions from My Twitter-Feed: SCOTUS Overturns DOMA
Today's DOMA ruling is a historic step forward for #MarriageEquality. #LoveIsLove— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 26, 2013DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2013 SOCIETY -
Another Snippet from My Recently Published Book: Wilson R. Bachelor on June 1898
In May, I published a snippet from the diary of Wilson Richard Bachelor, the whole of which has now appeared in print in my recent book Fiat Flux: The Writings... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Reactions to SCOTUS Ruling on Voting Acts
Reactions to yesterday's Supreme Court decision (i.e., Justice Roberts's decision) to gut the Voting Rights act:Bill Blum at Truthdig sees Roberts's decision... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Remembering My Brother on His Birthday
My brother was born this day in 1951. It's also the day my parents married in 1948.The photo: my brother Simpson and I in the year of his birth. Simpson died... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2013 DIARIES -
Watching You Watch Them Watch Me: A Parable
And so, yesterday this happens: I take Steve early in the morning for a colonoscopy. As I sit in the clinic's waiting room, my current book to keep the world... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Fr. Bryan Massingale to Pax Christi: "Human Rights Must Be Protected and Defende...
With great gratitude to Bilgrimage reader Janet Hanson for bringing this lecture to my attention, I'd like to post today my transcript of some observations... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
John Prior on USCCB and "Multifaceted Threat" of Same-Sex Marriage: "A Gospel...
At Commonweal, Lisa Fullam remembers the fire that killed 32 people at the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans on 24 June 1973, and notes that as SCOTUS is poised... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Reader Writes: All the Mess in the Church, and We Waste Ink on Instructions...
Another "reader writes" item following the one I posted yesterday: this is something that a priest-reader of this blog emailed to me, and has given me permissio... Read more
Posted on 24 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
On This Day in 1973, "The Largest Killing of Gay People in U.S. History":...
Today is the day on which the UpStairs Lounge fire about which I wrote last week took place (here and here, and don't forget Kittredge Cherry's article that... Read more
Posted on 24 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Readers Write: Christians Threatening Supremes, Catholic Bishops and Fortnight...
The comments here are routinely so brilliant, that I often think a whole book could be made out of them. Three from this week stand out for me, among many that... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Christian Leaders to Supreme Court About Marriage: Not on Our Watch!
Just as the Catholic bishops began another round of summer solstice freedom songs and freedom dances that will end on Independence Day, a group of Christian... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for the Day: Exodus International and Saving Wretches Like Them
Quote for the day--Fred Clark at Slacktivist on Exodus International's apology to the gay community:Evangelical Christianity is at its best when it speaks of... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Exodus International's Big Announcement (and Apology): A Selection of Valuable...
So much valuable commentary is being written about Exodus International's announcement that it's closing its doors, and the apology Alan Chambers made to the ga... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
More on the UpStairs Lounge Fire in New Orleans: Refusal to Bury the Dead,...
That UpStairs Lounge fire in New Orleans that killed 32 people about which I spoke yesterday: it was on 24 June 1973. As the anniversary of this event... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2013 RELIGION, SOCIETY -
New Round of USCCB Fortnight for Freedom Bashes Starts on Summer Solstice, Runs...
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on FacebookChild! Do I have some news for you! I hea... Read more
Posted on 21 June 2013 RELIGION