William Lindsey

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3425 )

• "I Am for Peace; But When I Speak, They Are for War": A Consideration of the...

  

  I've been thinking about war and peace lately, not primarily because, in response to the possibility of a peace-seeking agreement with Iran, one of my nation's... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: "The Confederate Flag Represents an Attempt to Perpetrate a Lie...

  

  In an interview at Slate yesterday, Isaac Chotiner asks Ta-Nehisi Coates if it's possible to see Dylann Roof as "a victim of history from the other side. Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Confederate Flag: With One Great-Grandfather Who Was a CSA Soldier and...

  

  To repeat myself: one of my great-grandfathers was a Confederate soldier in Alabama, and my other three great-grandfathers in Louisiana and Arkansas all had... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Reader Writes: Nothing About Us, Without Us: No One Should Discuss *Any* Peopl...

  

  Mary O'Grady writes in response to my posting yesterday about Father William Grimm's question, When Catholics talk about LGBT people, what would the arguments... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• How the Confederate Battle Flag Is Like the Tridentine Mass: What Sister Never...

  

  At the What Sister Never Knew and Father Never Told You site, blogger Consolamini minces no words as he compares the Confederate battle flag to the traditional... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Inquistions, Church Apologies, and the Reaction of Christians to the Obergefell...

  

  There's a theme linking these three keen observations, it seems to me — and I wonder if others see it, too. First, Mapgie in Madrid noted here several days... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: What Would the Arguments About Gay and...

  

  What would the arguments look like if real people were part of the evidence?, Maryknoll Father William Grimm asks, as he looks at the typical responses of many... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Naomi Klein on a Radical Vatican Under Pope Francis?

  

  Some excerpts for you from Naomi Klein's recent New Yorker essay entitled "A Radical Vatican?": Klein notes that she was asked to speak at a Vatican press... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Catholic Sensibility and Trans People: Another Perspective

  

  At the Catholic Sensibility site, Todd Flowerday provides his own riff on the discussion of how Catholics should respond to trans people that I discussed... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Commonweal Catholics and How Much "We" Lov...

  

  A thread about transgender people now underway at Commonweal suggests to me that trans folks are in the process of becoing the new battleground over which... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religious Freedom and Signs from Our Past: Reminders of How the Religious Freedo...

  

  At his Facebook page, Mark David Gerson shares a collage of photos from the not-distant past, as he notes, As we ponder the "religious freedom" of those refusin... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Former Jesuit Ben Brenkert Asks, When Will the Catholic Church Stop Firing Gays?

  

  At the Daily Beast, Ben Brenkert, whose Catechism of the Heart: Memoir of a Gay Jesuit, will be published next year, asks when the Catholic church will stop... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Two More Excerpts from Articles in NCR's Retrospective on Catholic Abuse Story:...

  

  Two more excerpts from the series National Catholic Reporter is doing this week to look back at the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic church — which goes... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Down the Road from Obergefell: A Personal Reflection from a Catholic Theologian...

  

  I keep trying, these days, to write a post-Obergefell reflection for you. To be precise: what I keep trying to capture are my own tumultuous roller-coaster... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Jamie Manson on Pope Francis's Warm, Deep Ties to Evangelicals: Predictions for...

  

  Jamie Manson on Pope Francie's deep ties to evangelicals (in Latin American, as well as to influential American ones), and how those ties will undoubtedly... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: Pope Francis's Vision of Equality Will Remain Incomplete Until...

  

  Roisin Davis at Truthdig: While he advocates for South America’s impoverished and disenfranchised, its prisoners, its indigenous peoples and its children, one... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Frederick Clarkson on Christianity in the Religious Freedom Debates: Highly...

  

  Another hot-off-the-press article I'd like to recommend to you today: Frederick Clarkson's "When the Exception Is the Rule: Christianity in the Religious Freedo... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Barbara Blaine Tells Story of SNAP's Founding, St. Louis Priest Attacks SNAP,...

  

  This week, National Catholic Reporter is publishing a week-long series of articles looking back at the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic church. I highly... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Brittmarie Janson Perez, "On False Prophets and Parallel Churches: Kiko...

  

  Today, another exhaustively researched essay by Brittmarie Janson Perez, which I'm happy to share with you here. This one focuses on the role of Kiko Arguello... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• "Just Who Do We Think We Are?": More Responses to Justice Roberts's Question in...

  

  After Obergefell, people are having a field day throwing Justice John Roberts's huffy "Just who do we think we are?" back in his face. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY