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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Reader Writes: "So Easy and Convenient to Automatically Assume That the Problem...
In what follows, I'd like to point you to some noteworthy comments readers have left here in the past several days. First, I'm struck by Annika's valuable... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Why Do We Have to Dress Up Like Mommy in Order to Act Like Daddy? Strange Irony...
This has been a lively several days of discussion at Bilgrimage (133 comments and counting now, on my previous posting about Cardinal Burke and his... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Comedian Kate Clinton on Cardinal Burke's Solution to the "Man-Crisis" in the...
version; Yesterday, I linked to Dara Kelly's article in Irish Central reporting on an recent interview* that Cardinal Raymond Burke gave to Matthew James... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Tom McCarthy on Ultimate Takeaway of "Spotlight": "Film Is About Personal...
Tom McCarthy says, I think ultimately the film is about personal accountability and responsibility, and not just institutionally, but in terms of the... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Sun Rises, World Continues on Its Way: Things That Continue, from Today's...
Cardinal Burke continues to emangelize.Some church-based institutions of higher learning continue claiming a religious "right" to discriminate against LGBT... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Marianne Duddy-Burke on Pope Francis' Intervention in Italian Debate About Gay...
As Marianne Duddy-Burke of Dignity-USA says in response to Pope Francis's recent public statement opposing marriage equality in Italy, what Francis appears to b... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Footnote to a Footnote: Fixation on Homosexuality in Discussions of Catholic...
I'll admit to you all a frustration bordering on peevishness at the way many people in religious circles seem inclined to turn plain truth on its head as they... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Atheist-Agnostic Humanist Birdcage: A Review of Del Shores'...
From my friend (and mentor and fellow reader-scholar-retired teacher) Alan McCornick at his Hepzibah site, a review of Del Shores' Southern Baptist Sissies:... Read more
Posted on 24 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Catholic Sister Responds to Pope Re:...
Pope Francis makes a public statement opposing marriage equality, a step that is, as Francis DeBernardo notes at Bondings 2.0, "very disappointing," and Rosa G. Read more
Posted on 24 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Footnote to Discussion of St. John's Abbey Story: NCR Thread Filling Up with...
A footnote about what I posted earlier today regarding the documents just made public by St. John's Benedictine Abbey in Minnesota, re: monks credibly accused o... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
St. John's Abbey Releases 15,000 Pages of Disclosure Re: 18 Monks: NCR Reader...
Does anyone but me ever have the sense that Catholic pastoral authorities have played and continue playing an ugly game with the rest of us about the abuse... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Recommended: Joe Biden on LGBT Rights, Catherine Wallace on Gay Marriage and...
God bless Joe Biden (the section I've transcribed from his recent remarks at the World Economic Forum begins at about the 1.55 mark):LGBT people face violence,... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Footnote to Previous Posting Re: Jamie Manson's New NCR Article: Knives Are Out...
A footnote to what I published earlier today about Jamie Manson's powerful statement at NCR noting that it's justice that LGBT Catholics need, not mercy. Read more
Posted on 20 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: "LGBTQ Persons Do Not Need Mercy from the Church. We Need Justice"
In a powerful statement at National Catholic Reporter today, Jamie Manson notes that many Catholics would like to hope that the door of mercy they think Pope... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, Les Divorcés Remariés, Les Couples Homosexuels...
I've just finished reading the new book by the noted French Dominican Thomist scholar Reverend Adriano Oliva, Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Ms. Palin Supplants Mr. Whitman As the Bard of the Common Man and Woman: "You...
Really, who needs fusty old Walt Whitman any longer, when we have Ms. Palin creating her brilliant word-salad paeans to the American common man and common woman... Read more
Posted on 20 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
When Tea and Sympathy Are No Longer Nearly Enough: A Response to Archbishop...
On Sunday, at his Winsome, Lose Some blog site, Anglican priest Reverend Richard Haggis published an open letter to Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. Read more
Posted on 19 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Francis DeBernardo on Vatican's "Gay Lobby": Red Herring Distracting Us from...
Francis DeBernardo on the persistent rumor of a "gay lobby" in the Vatican, a rumor recently popping up (or is the word I'm seeking "pooping"? Read more
Posted on 17 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Anger of Heterosexual Men Driving Religious...
I've shared these observations with you in the past. I think it might be helpful now to gather them together in one posting, following the recent decision of... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Defining Christianity by Exclusion of LGBT Human Beings: "If This Is the...
Thinking back this morning to Kaya Oakes's post-Obergefell essay last November: as she points out, anti-LGBT right-wing Christians have really lost the battle t... Read more
Posted on 16 January 2016 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY
