William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• Sri Lanka, the Spiral of Violence, and Global Turn to Strongmen Messianic...

  

  I grieve — so very much — the carnage we've just seen enacted in Sri Lanka, on the day many Christians consider the holiest day of the liturgical calendar. Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What They're Saying About the Mueller Report: "Russian Government Interfered in...

  let this not be lost in Mueller Report: "The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion." Part I, page 9... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• What They're Saying About Barr's Press Conference: What Checks? What Balances?! ...

  It's a disgrace to see an Attorney General acting as if he's the personal attorney and publicist for the President of the United States.— Elizabeth Warren... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tara Westover's Educated: "What My Father Wanted to Cast from Me Wasn't a...

  

  Having finished reading Tara Westover's Educated several weeks ago, I've been thinking about what I'd like to say as a concluding statement about it. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Bannon Link: Using Trump Playbook to Attack Pope Francis

  Steve Bannon: If Trump is reelected, the country is going to get "pure Trump off the chain" https://t.co/ItFWWiyOz4 pic.twitter. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More Valuable Commentary on Benedict's Poisonous Letter: Part of a Bigger...

  Steve Bannon is on a new crusade to reform the Vatican. Critics say he, and a movement, are using the same playbook that helped President Trump into the White... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Benedict Undercuts Francis on Abuse Narrative: The 1960s Made Us Do It

  Pope Benedict's letter from his hideout blames the sexual revolution in the '60s for crimes against children committed on his watch. Code: women's liberation... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Civil Rights Center in Tennessee and Black Churches in Louisiana Burn as Hate...

  Churches burned, death threats against civil rights leaders, synagogues attacked - and 3rd straight year of hate crimes spiking, according to FBI. This is... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Paul Elie on "Seeming Transparency" of Dioceses Releasing Lists of Priests...

  For most American Catholics, the fact of sexual abuse by priests and its coverup by bishops has long been an everyday reality. Will this story ever be over?... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kathleen Holscher on Lack of Attention to Colonialism and White Supremacy in...

  

  In today's Tablet, a valuable reminder from historian Kathleen Holscher of the University of New Mexico that how we view the abuse story in the Catholic church... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• SNAP Holds Media Event in Charlotte: Bishop Peter Jugis Endangering Children by...

  An update for you about the continuing refusal of the Catholic diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, to release a list of names of predator priests who have... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Miriam Toews' Irma Voth and Tara Westover's Educated: On Patriarchal Religion an...

  

  It's by accident — or synchronicity — that I happen to have read Miriam Toews' novel Irma Voth at the same time that I'm reading Tara Westover's Educated. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On My 69th Birthday, Words That Touch My Heart

  

  Today, on my 69th birthday, these words to me from a reader I've met through this blog, who inspires me constantly by her lived witness to the beatitudes,... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Footnote to Story Re: Resignation of Chancellor of Catholic Diocese of Charlotte...

  

  As I think about the story I shared with you today — yesterday, it was announced that the chancellor of the Catholic diocese of Charlotte, Msgr. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Chancellor of Charlotte Catholic Diocese and Fomer Belmont Abbey College...

  

  In the news now: "A top Diocese of Charlotte official resigns after 'credible' sexual misconduct claim": Bruce Henderson reports,The second in command of the... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: Concluding Remarks About Why Thi...

  

  I've now finished reading Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican, and want to share some concluding thoughts about the book. Two interrelated points... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Frédéric Martel on the Tragedy That Is the Pastoral Career of Joseph Ratzinger...

  

  From Frédéric Martel, In the Closet of the Vatican, on the tragedy of Joseph Ratzinger's (Benedict XVI's) pastoral career:More perhaps than another man of his... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More from Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican on the Source of...

  

  As I keep reading Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican, I'd like to say more about the theme of corruption I featured in my last commentary about... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ed Kilgore on White Evangelicals as Heart of Trump Base: "Committed to a Common...

  

  In "White Evangelicals Are Still the Heart of Trump's Base," Ed Kilgore comments on new Pew Research Center data that some commentators are erroneously... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• More on Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: The Dark Heart of...

  

  I have now made my way about halfway through Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican, trans. Shaun Whiteside (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), and am finding... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2019 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY