William Lindsey

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• The Duggars Speak Out: Victims? What Victims? The Duggar Story and the Gospel

  

  The Duggars just don't get it, do they? The fact is, they can't get it, because they live in a little countercultural bubble of religious truth that trumps all... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Ched Myers on Pentecost: "The Spirit Has Busted Up Business-as-Usual Many Times...

  

  Ched Myers looks at the Lucan Pentecost story in Acts in light of the narrative about the tower of Babel in Genesis 11. As he notes, the "scattering" of... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Alan McCornick on Open Vs. Closed Models of Church, and Religious Responses to...

  

  In light of the Irish vote, Alan McCornick argues that it's simplistic to frame the battle for gay rights as a battle between religion and the gays. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Gabriel Daly on Irish Vote as "Caring for a Wounded Minority Who Were Strangers...

  

  Catholic theologian (and priest) Gabriel Daly commenting in The Tablet on the deeply Catholic theological underpinnings of the recent yes vote for LGBT... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Kapya Kaoma on How Vatican Hypocrisy Endangers LGBTQ People

  

  Yesterday, I wrote that I wonder what Pope Francis will say at the World Meeting of Families this September, given that the Catholic archdiocese hosting this... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mark Silk Responds to Ross Douthat on Polygamy and Same-Sex Marriage: What Were...

  

  Mark Silk responds to Ross Douthat on same-sex marriage and polygamy (see my earlier posting about this) at Mark's "Spiritual Politics" blog — "The Polygamists... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Sensational Austrialian T.V. Interview with Peter Saunders of Papal Abuse...

  Last evening, "60 Minutes Australia" aired a segment about Cardinal George Pell, whom Pope Francis has brought to the Vatican to clean up the Vatican Bank. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• A Catholic Nation Resoundingly Supports Equal Rights for LGBT People, and the...

  

  Steve and I had dinner yesterday with some friends of ours who have long been powerful and effective activists for civil rights. Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Slowdown on Responding to Comments: My Apologies

  

  My apologies to all of you who have left comments here in the past several days that I haven't been responding to and acknowledging your much-appreciated... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: Leah Mickens on "Benedict Option" and Need for Control on Part...

  

  Leah Mickens on the "Benedict option" (countercultural, combative Christian withdrawal from mainstream society) and how this option (curiously) seems to appeal... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Quote for Day: "What A Gift the Catholic Hierarchy Has Been Handed by the Irish"

  

  Tom Fox in National Catholic Reporter on the opportunity that the Irish vote might (and should) offer the pastoral leaders of the Catholic church — if they'd... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Chris Morley on John Anderson's Reality Check for Irish Catholicism: The Future...

  

  Chris Morley has sent me some commentary on the recent vote of Irish Catholics in support of LGBT equality. Chris's commentary focuses on a recent Catholic... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Congrats, You Have an All Male Panel: Recommending a New Tumblr Site

  

  A number of days back, I began seeing links popping up in my newsfeed and in blogs I routinely read, pointing to a new Tumblr site with the alluring title... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• End-of-Week Commentary on Irish Rainbow Referendum: 5 Links

  And since it's clearly impossible for me to go a day (on which I post) without saying something about the recent remarkable rainbow referendum in Ireland, here'... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Critically Important to Analyzing Duggar Story: Stephanie Krehbiel and Ruth Kral...

  

  In the latest issue of Mennonite Life (issue 2015, vol. 69) (online here), Stephanie Krehbiel interviews Ruth Krall on the topic "Breaking Open the Structure... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Duggar Saga: End-of-Week Wrap Up (with 10 Links to Valuable Commentary)

  As this work week ends, I thought I'd update you on the ever-unfolding Duggar family saga, and provide you with some links to commentary on this story that, in... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Religious Culture of Abuse of Females in Right-Wing Christianity: A Current...

  

  In my posting on the Duggar family earlier today, I cited Jenny Kutner to note that what shouldn't be overlooked in the Duggar story is how Josh Duggar's... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Irish Rainbow Referendum: Valuable Commentary from Past Few Days (As Vatican Wag...

  'Over the Rainbow' in Ireland is a crock of Golden equality. So proud to be Irish. #YesEquality #YesVote pic.twitter.com/LRwKzLDwXc— Sharon Callis... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Duggar Saga: From Curioser and Curioser to Sleazier and Sleazier — Police Report...

  

  News about the model Christian family in my home state of Arkansas, the Duggars, continues to pop so fast and furious that it's hard to keep up with. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Is Catholic Magisterial Teaching About...

  

  At Commonweal, Deacon Jim Pauwels of Chicago writes,Folks: opposing same sex marriage needn't be evidence of homophobia. It's an unjust, vicious slur to equate... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY