William Lindsey

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• Samantha Allen on Controversy Re: Target's New Gender-Neutral Policies: "In the...

  

  Samantha Allen brilliantly analzyes the bizarre irony at the heart of protests against Target's new policy of shying away from gender-tagging of toys:If gender... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Problem-Solving Exercise for the Weekend: The Gospel and the Gays — When...

  

  Here's a little exercise in problem-solving for you on an August weekend that will be, for many readers as for me, lazy and warm:If the very center of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• SNAP's Q and A on Pope Francis and Abuse/Cover Up Crisis: Highly Recommended

  

  And speaking of the upcoming papal visit to the U.S. (I just did so in my previous posting, didn't I?), SNAP has published a very valuable Q and A written by... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "Sharing Our Lives as Theology 2": Another Videotaped Conversation Between...

  At Easter time this year, I shared with all of you a video that came to us as an Easter gift from two amazing readers of Bilgrimage, Rachel Fitzgerald and Mark... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• PRRI's American Values Atlas on Abortion, Marriage Equality, and Immigrants: Wha...

  

  Take the American Values Atlas map at the Public Religion Research Institute website, ask it to generate a national map showing state-by-state responses to the... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Few Issues Are More Crucial to the Fate...

  

  In response to Phyllis Zagano's National Catholic Reporter article noting that women's lives matter, and opening with the disclaimer that, no, she's not... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• How Black Lives Matter Has Changed the Church: But Where Are the Catholics (and...

  

  In this valuable Huffington Post article about how the Black Lives Matter movement has changed the church, find the Catholic voice. You won't. It's not there. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Those Gotcha Planned Parenthood Videos Again: Where There's No Novum, There's...

  

  Three days ago, Colleen left a powerful comment here. She writes, I spent the day up on Bear Tooth Pass, elevation 11,000 feet. It feels like you can see the... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Swords. And Dying by Them.

  

  What follows is a series of excerpts from things I read / watched this morning, which all seem to me to have a common theme, one about taking swords and dying b... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Remembering a Friend on His Birthday: Holiness in Ordinary

  

  I didn't actually say I wouldn't post this weekend, did I? :)What prompts me to do so today is that today's the birthday (in 1916) of a remarkable person who,... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Conversing and Converting: An Examination of Blog Conversations (and Why I'm...

  

  Chris responded to what I posted yesterday by using the phrase "somewhat sour." I myself have been feeling strongly the acerbic edge of conversations here in th... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• People Talking: About Matt Shepard, White Male Privilege, Women's Health, Guns...

  

  "He was always struggling to find that place where he belonged," a friend of Matthew Shepard says in Michele Josue's wonderful documentary "Matt Shepard Is a... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ruth Krall on Sexual Violence Activism in a Mennonite Voice: A Presentation to...

  

  Several days ago, I offered you an initial "teaser" report from the recent SNAP conference in Alexandria, Virgina. In that report, I told you how impressed I wa... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tom Doyle in Robert Blair Kaiser's Whistle: "Survivors Have Changed the Course o...

  

  I don't want to wear you out with excerpts from Robert Blair Kaiser's book about Tom Doyle, Whistle. I do encourage you to consider buying it, because the... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Tom Doyle in Robert Blair Kaiser's Whistle: "I Was Dead Wrong . . . in...

  

  "In the first months of my involvement in 1984 and 1985 I was convinced that once the bishops learned of this horrific problem they would quickly reach out to... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The SNAP Conference: A Personal Response (on Being Made Human Garbage by Church...

  

  More on the SNAP conference this past weekend: for me personally, the conference made a big impact in a way that’s not really easy to explain. Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Recommended: Robert Blair Kaiser's Whistle, on Tom Doyle's Life and Work with...

  

  I appreciate Jerry Slevin's reminder, in a response to my posting earlier today, about Robert Blair Kaiser's last book (Kaiser died in April this year), Whistle. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• SNAP's 2015 Conference: A Few Remarks and Teasers

  

  One of the reasons I've been slow to post in the past several days, dear readers, is that I've been at the national meeting of Survivors Network of Those... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Jacob J. Erickson on Killing of Cecil the Lion As Part of "Larger Theological...

  

  In several comments yesterday, I recommended Jacob J. Erickson's recent essay at Religion Dispatches entitled "The Martyrdom of Cecil the Lion. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Leah Mickens on Kenyan Catholic Bishops' Response to Polio Vaccination...

  

  Yesterday, Leah Mickens published a statement about the response of the Catholic bishops of Kenya to the polio vaccination campaign in their nation, about... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY