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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Jesus' Crucifixion and Resurrection, and His Table Open to All: Why Politics...
Because of the very powerful slaveholder religion (and here) crafted by Southern Christian apologists for slavery, which pretends that salvation and Jesus are... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
This Is Easter for Me: Joan Baez Singing "The President Sang Amazing Grace"
This is Easter for me, Joan Baez singing "The President Sang Amazing Grace," with Jeff Scheer's beautiful animated video accompanying the song. Read more
Posted on 01 April 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
As Men Lift Up the Cross in Holy Week Liturgies Around the World, Some...
In a just-published article entitled "In an age of Trump and Stormy Daniels, evangelical leaders face sex scandals of their own," Sarah Pulliam Bailey quotes... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
What Does It Mean to Learn on Good Friday That Sacramento Police Shot Stephon...
Don Thompson and Sophia Bollag at TPMWhat does it mean to read this report on Good Friday?What does it say to those who are believers in Jesus that this report... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
"You Can't Talk About #GoodFriday with Any Kind of Moral Relevance—any...
"Between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Read more
Posted on 30 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Behold the Wood of the Cross: Good Friday Meditation on Crosses . . . And...
Alan Bennett, Keeping On Keeping On (London: Faber Faber, 2016):Oh to live in the world one sees from the train — empty, unpeopled, only a horse in the... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
"No Going Back from What Happened This Weekend": Commentary on #MarchForOurLives
Charles Pierce, "There's No Going Back From What Happened This Weekend. The Gun Debate Is Over":The reason the conversation is over, the reason that so many... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for the Day: Fred Clark on How "Evangelical Christianity Is Turning into...
At his Slacktivist site today, Fred Clark reports on the decision of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University to make a biographical film about "firefighter prophet"... Read more
Posted on 22 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Police Shooting of Stephon Clark and Exoneration of Mark Anthony Conditt: Two...
Again, how the police chief talks about a young white man who terrorizes a city. Remember how they talked about innocent Black children like Trayvon, Tamir or... Read more
Posted on 22 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Austin Serial Bomber Mark Anthony Conditt, a Quiet Home-Schooled White...
Here's a photo of the family of Austin, Texas, serial bomber Mark Anthony Conditt, from Instagram by way of this Daily Mail article.* "Just a 'neighborhood... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
National Student Walkout Against Gun Violence: Arkansas Students Receive Corpora...
My kid and two other students walked out of their rural, very conservative, public school for 17 minutes today. They were given two punishment options. They... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
More on Catholic Schools and National Walkout: "Unfortunately, Some of the...
Two PA Catholic Schools to Pray Instead of Protest in Walkout Over Gun Violence https://t.co/wNaYKEaXgh— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 14, 2018I'm grateful to... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
When "Pro-Life" Means "We Don't Protest — Well, Not for Gun Control. Abortion...
Two PA Catholic Schools to Pray Instead of Protest in Walkout Over Gun Violence https://t.co/wNaYKEaXgh— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 14, 2018Strange, isn't it? Read more
Posted on 15 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Hate Has a Field Day This Lenten Week in American Catholicism, As Anti-LGBTQ...
The viciously anti-LGBTQ Catholic hate group Church Militant is having a good week, isn't it? Yesterday, Father James Martin issued a public report on Facebook... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Fred Clark on Gerson and Ladd: "Helpful Corrective to Gerson's Longer, Larger...
Yesterday, when I posted Twitter (and other) responses to Michael Gerson's recent essay on white evangelicals and Trump, I pointed you to an essay by Chris... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Twitter Responds to Gerson's Essay on White Evangelicals and Trump: "Trump Age I...
Gerson seems to imply that race is something that became negotiable in evangelical politics, when it was the organizing factor. Read more
Posted on 12 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Reader Writes: "It's This Fear-Notivated Attachment to Belief in Magic That Is,...
In response to our discussion last Friday of Mary McAleese's recent lecture characterizing the Catholic church as a "primary globl carrier of the virus of... Read more
Posted on 12 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Michael Gerson on Trump and White Evangelicals: "This Is Not Mere Gullibility; I...
When Obama was in office in 2011, only 30 percent of white evangelicals told pollsters they would forgive a president's immoral behavior. Now, under Trump,... Read more
Posted on 11 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Reader Writes About Black Evangelicals Leaving White Churches: "I Am Still...
Brian Gallagher shared the article excerpted below in a comment yesterday, stating,I am still ASTOUNDED to hear stories like this one. Trump is God's Chosen One? Read more
Posted on 10 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Mary McAleese on Catholic Church As a "Primary Global Carrier of the Virus" of...
This is really Sarasi's post and not mine. In the past two days, she has provided a wealth of links to commentary about the stellar address former Irish... Read more
Posted on 09 March 2018 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY
