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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Quote for Day: "All Lives Do Not Matter When We Must Sort the Dead by Sides" —...
Patricia J. Williams's powerful observation yesterday at The Nation site, which has to do with what we get when we remix the Confederacy for 2015, strikes me... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Highly Recommended: Sarah Posner's Just-Published Essay on Duggars' Close Ties t...
A very important essay to which I'd like to point you: Sarah Posner's exhaustively researched investigation of the ties of the Duggar family to the discredited... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Concluding Thoughts on the Huckabee-Staver Show Involving Kim Davis: It's a...
As this work week wraps up, and as we reach the level of full glut (and concomitant dyspepsia) with more news about Kim Davis, some wrap-up thoughts about her... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Pictures Today: Walls, Marriage Licenses, Things Not Like Each Other, and...
Pictures today:#1: Clay Bennett at Truthdig (above).#2: Nick Anderson at Truthdig:#3: Rob Tornoe at Media Matters:#4: Siphiwe Sibeko of Reuters by way of The... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Picture Today, Revealing Tragically Displaced Moral Priorities of Many America...
Pictures today. Though I plan to do another posting featuring pictures, I cannot post the picture above alongside the other ones I intend to post. It would be... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
David Rosen on the Fantasy Trump Adroitly Peddles to Working-Class Straight Whit...
And, finally for this morning, another outstanding essay I read early today to which I want to point readers — David Rosen on the white male fantasy that... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Katha Pollitt on Laudato Si': "If Pope Francis Really Wanted to Fight Climate...
And more outstanding commentary today — this by Katha Pollitt at The Nation noting that Pope Francis's considerable blind spot regarding women's rights... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Colleen Kochivar-Baker on Kim Davis and Her Handlers: "Anyone Who Gives a Fig...
And more brilliant commentary on the faux religious liberty show staged by Rev. Mike Huckabee and Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, involving Kim Davis — this... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Brittney Cooper on Kim Davis and Her Handlers: "Social Grammar of White...
Following on yesterday's Liberty Counsel-Rev. Mike Huckabee faux "religious liberty" show involving Kim Davis, some outstanding commentary this morning to... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Fred Clark on Kim Davis: "57 Years to the Day After Other White Evangelical...
Fred Clark's neat summary of the parallel between the Kim Davis story and the Orval Faubus story: Kim Davis was found in contempt of court on September 4 — 57... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Catholic "Liberals" Continue to Go on Record with Sympathy for Kim Davis — But...
As I've predicted in several previous postings about the Kim Davis case, Catholic "liberals" are now steadily going on record to express their sympathy for Kim... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
John Bijarney on Kim Davis and Her Supporters: Seeking License to Escape Change...
This commentary by my Facebook friend John Bijarney on what Kim Davis and her supporters are really all about, at the core of their movement, is right on target... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Liberty Counsel's Faux Religious Liberty Stunt Involving Kim Davis: Commentary...
No one's being jailed for practicing her religion. Someone's being jailed for using the government to force others to practice her religion. Read more
Posted on 06 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
On This Day in 1958: Defiance of Supreme Court Decision Brown v. Board of...
"Gov Faubus Save Our Christian America"As Richard Kreitner reminds us at The Nation today, on this day in 1958 in my hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, the... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Kim Davis Goes to Jail for Contempt of Court
Judge: #KimDavis' "good-faith belief is simply not a viable defense. Oaths mean things." http://t.co/JsM6chMt70 pic.twitter.com/ioKiZSbxaQ— Talking Points Memo... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Must-Reading As Papal Visit Nears: The Economist on "Unholy Mess" of Finances...
For anyone asking why so many Catholics have walked away and continue to do so despite the "Francis effect"; for those with serious concern for the future of th... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Rachel Held Evans on Faux Persecution Complex of Conservative Christians, and...
Rachel Held Evans argues that when the Christian brand becomes assertion of the "right to refuse" service rather than serving, when it becomes standing against... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
After Ashley Madison, Lots of Talk About Mercy: Men, Women, Gays (and Kim Davis)...
I told you, didn't I, only a day or so ago that the reason godly Christian heterosexual men are succumbing to sexual temptation right now is that their women... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
John Corvino on Kim Davis: "Willingness to Impose a Standard of Marriage on...
John Corvino on Kim Davis:Many have commented on the fact that Davis herself has been divorced several times. As a strategic matter, this makes her a rather poo... Read more
Posted on 01 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
It's On in Rowan County, Kentucky (3): "Under God's Authority," Religious...
A YouTube user, 646guy, is uploading videos from today's events at the Rowan County, Kentucky, courthouse. The video above is more extensive footage than what... Read more
Posted on 01 September 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY
