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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Sunday Sermons and Resources for Resistance: "Greatest Threat to Justice in the...
Reverend William J. Barber II, Moral March on Raleigh, 11 February 2017:The actions of an extremist legislature in North Carolina, the extremist actions of the... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
"First They Came for . . .": Despite Denials, Trump's Nationwide Immigration...
Lisa Rein, Abigail Hauslohner, and Sandhya Somashekhar for Washington Post: U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at leas... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Steve Bannon's White Ethnonationalist Worldview Is Undergirded by Alliance of...
In the Rachel Maddow video that I featured in a posting yesterday, did you notice Tim Russert grilling George W. Bush on 13 February 2000 about what Bob Jones,... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Steve Bannon's Thick Ties to Cardinal Raymond Burke and Trumpist Catholicism:...
Since last October, When the BuzzFeed site provided a transcript of Steve Bannon's statements to a Vatican conference organized in 2014 by the Human Dignity... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
William J. Barber on Silencing of Coretta Scott King As Act of Systemic Racism:...
The very important testimony of Rev. William J. Barber II:Senator Warren knows as well as Mrs. King did that Jeff Sessions can smile and be cordial. But his... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
"Nevertheless She Persisted": The Moral Obligation to Stand Together and Speak...
"Nevertheless, she persisted." pic.twitter.com/OFVw2EyWCJ— Sarah Lerner (@SarahLerner) February 8, 2017It's not in the least accidental that, in the space of... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Twitter on Mitch McConnell's Silencing of Elizabeth Warren and Coretta Scott...
I will not be silent about a nominee for AG who has made derogatory racist comments that have no place in our justice system. Read more
Posted on 08 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Speak Out, and They Will Silence You: John Pavlovitz on "the Heart Sickness...
If you speak out, they will shut you down — or try to do so. As happened to me this past weekend when I insisted on talking about racism in my own neighborhood... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Conversations in the Age of Trump: Cousins, Guns, Church, and Blood-Thirsty Idols
Conversations in the age of Trump:Cousin:Guns make us safer.Cities in which many people are armed have lower crime rates than cities where fewer people are... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Local Activism and the Problem of Elitist Gatekeeping Groups: The Case of...
Go local, the gurus tell us. Engage in local action. Start in your own backyard.That's all well and good. But I have some questions about how this is possible,... Read more
Posted on 07 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Donald Trump and U.S. Christians, Three Perspectives: "There Is a Sickness in...
4 in 5 white evangelicals, 3 in 5 white Catholics and Mormons — "pro-life" voters — brought us the Trump nightmare.I will not forget. Read more
Posted on 06 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Emerging All Over Again in American Culture — Biblical Literalism (but Strictly...
Emerging all over again in the wake of the nameless one's pseudo electoral "victory": biblical literalism. It just never seems to go away in American culture. Read more
Posted on 03 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
"A Conscience That Is Not Awake to Suffering and Fails to Respond Is Walled Off...
With his performance at yesterday's National Prayer Breakfast (an event organized by the shadowy anti-LGBT group calling itself "The Family," as David Badash... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Failure of Catholic Progressives to Speak Out for Years Now About LGBTQ...
From 1986 forward, when Cardinal Ratzinger issued his infamous "Hallowe'en document" defining gay people as intrinsically disordered, there has been a silent,... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Bible Repeatedly Commands Us to Welcome Strangers; "Bible-Believing" Christians...
As Matthew Schmalz points out in the Religion News Service article I shared a few minutes ago, the Hebrew and Christian scriptures are FULL OF references to... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Holy War, Blowing Everything Up, White Supremacy, and "Pro-Life" White...
Two-thirds of white evangelicals believe America doesn't have a moral responsibility to accept Syrian refugees. https://t.co/yy0Pi5OHhK— Christianity Today... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Can Someone Please Get Word to Archbishop Chaput That Banning Refugees and...
P.S. Can someone please get a few of the tweets (with shocking photos attached) featured in my last posting to His Excellency Archbishop Charles Chaput, as he... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
"Life Is Winning Again in America": Executive Order Banning Muslim Refugees on...
Now banned from entering the U.S. --> pic.twitter.com/dsvsrvhC5O— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) January 28, 2017Willa Frej and Elise Foley, "Trump Targets... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
When No One Was Gay: We Must Not Deceive Ourselves; It Can Happen Again. In a...
New York Times, 2 July 1937, p. 1, col. 6-7It's the late 1980s or possibly early 1990s. I'm at my first full-time teaching job in the theology department of... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Lions' Dens Are Not Comfortable Places: A Post-Trial Report on Psychopaths and...
4 in 5 white evangelicals, 3 in 5 white Catholics and Mormons — "pro-life" voters — brought us the Trump nightmare.I will not forget.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy)... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2017 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY
