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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Mary Hunt on Synod: "'Membership' Is Made Up of All Men All the Time. What...
Catholic theologian Mary Hunt on the him-nod synod on the family now taking place in Rome:In English, we say the deck is stacked. Read more
Posted on 07 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Tina Beattie on Synod: "Francis's Opportunity to Show That He Is Really Serious ...
Catholic theologian Tina Beattie, commenting to Catholic Women Speak Network on the him-nod synod on the family now taking place in Rome:This was Francis'... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Mary McAleese on Synod: "If I Wanted Expertise on the Family, I Honestly Cannot...
Mary McAleese, former president of Ireland, commenting recently to a a meeting of the Global Network of Rainbow (LGBT) Catholics on the him-nod synod on the... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
NON POSSO PIU: "I Am Through with Making Allowances and Excuses for the Vatican,...
Brittie Perez (Brittmarie Janson Perez) has sent me another excellent essay that I'm delighted to publish today. Readers who have followed this blog will perhap... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: Archbishop Chaput, Either Join Us As We Seek to Protect Our...
I really like Captain Michael Skiendzielewski's comment in response to the article by Kieran Tapsell on the strange disconnect between Pope Francis's words and... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Who Really Set Up Papal Meeting with Kim Davis? Enlightening Comments at Catholi...
Yesterday at the National Catholic Reporter site, Tom Gallagher posted an article focusing on something about which I spoke briefly in a posting here on the sam... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Symbolism Or Substance? Pope Francis and the Abuse Situation: Recent Commentary
Symbol — the pope speaking to the bishops gathered in Philadelphia recently:The crimes and sins of sexual abuse of minors cannot be kept secret any longer. Read more
Posted on 06 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
If Catholic Leaders Are Permitted to Convince Us That Symbol Represents...
You realize, don't you, that probing the uneasy interface between symbol and substance, in the case of authority figures, is a revolutionary act? Read more
Posted on 05 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "He Found Time to Meet Kim But Not Meet...
Questions from a Ewe writes, He found time to meet Kim but not meet with any one of the many outstanding female theologians living in the U.S. who could help hi... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Symbol Trumps Substance in Synod on the Family: Women As the Imagined...
National Catholic Reporter editorializes:Few events in contemporary church life have been as hotly anticipated as this month's synod on the family. Read more
Posted on 05 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Some Bullet Point Observations As Synod on Family Opens in Light of Kim...
• Well, at least the debacle of Kim Davis and the Pope has gotten the mainstream media finally to say clearly, unambiguously what the rest of us have long known... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Weak Men and Old Hussies: Soap Opera Lessons Learned at My Grandmother's Knee,...
My grandmother, the half-Irish one, was not a churchgoer (the other one, who was a convicted Southern Baptist, very decidedly was a churchgoer). Read more
Posted on 04 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Katie Grimes Asks Why Catholic Priesthood Is Simultaneously So Gay and So...
Katie Grimes deftly and clearly explains the . . . well, downright oddity . . . of the heightened homophobia within the Catholic institution. Read more
Posted on 04 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
The Telenovela Continues: Gay Vatican Official Comes Out and Is Sacked in Advanc...
OMG. Did someone say head-turners? (Yes, I'm between popcorn runs, and very glad I bought in a big new supply of popcorn today, because it looks like the... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Michelangelo Signorile on Amazing Alacrity with Which Vatican Noticed Pushback...
Today's a day of non-blogging commitments for me (my supply of popcorn is quickly running out, for one thing), and so I can't be at my computer to comment on an... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
New Civil Rights Movement Reports: "Kim Davis' Meeting with the Pope Was Arrange...
Yvette Schneider writes, The New Civil Rights Movement has learned through a source within the Apostolic Nunciature, the Vatican embassy, that Kim Davis’ meetin... Read more
Posted on 03 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
News Flash: Pope Met Gay Friend While on American Tour
Wow. They're really in damage-control mode today. What that tells us is how much the pushback regarding the meeting with Kim Davis has unsettled them. By "them,... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Mary Dispenza's Powerful Memoir SPLIT: Moving from Childhood Rape by a Priest...
On the day that news broke of the pope's meeting with Kim Davis, I was finishing Mary Dispenza's painful, liberating account of her struggle to come to terms... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Barbie Latza Nadeau on Vatican "Clarification" of Pope's Meeting with Kim...
At Daily Beast, Barbie Latza Nadeau is right on target with her assessment of today's Vatican (non-) statement about what the pope knew as he met with Kim Davis... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Papal Meeting with Kim Davis: Vatican Doing Damage Control, But Unanswered...
So the hugely damaging fallout from the pope's meeting with Kim Davis has now provoked an unusual response-retraction of sorts from the Vatican media... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY
