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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A Reader Writes: If Karl Barth Was Addressing Fundamentalism in Europe, How Is I...
In response to my posting last week about Fred Clark's response to Emma Green on the connection between the Southern evangelical defense of slavery and the... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Bishop Robert's Finn's Criminal Conviction, and What Crystallizes the Anger of...
Here's a letter from the heart I have written (by email) this morning to an e-friend, a very good person, who had emailed me to add to the chorus of those who... Read more
Posted on 27 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: Mary Hunt on Most Important Takeaway of Vatican Attack on U.S....
Mary Hunt at Religion Dispatches in a post-mortem statement about the Vatican attack on American nuns:It is not enough to stop injustice. Read more
Posted on 24 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: Fred Clark on How Doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy and...
Fred Clark thinks that Emma Green's "Southern Baptists and the Sin of Racism" (in The Atlantic) "provides us a sharp image of the Southern Baptist Convention’s... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Footnote to Story of Laurent Stefanini's Meeting with Pope Francis: I.Media...
Yesterday, I.Media, a French-language news service based in Rome and specializing in Vatican coverage, published a statement about the meeting of Pope Francis... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Three More Statements on "Resignation" of Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City:...
Three more statements about the "resignation" of convicted felon Bishop Robert Finn of St. Joseph-Kansas City, from groups supporting survivors of childhood... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: As Pope Francis Informs French...
Here's a two-fer for you — a two-fer of very stinky Catholic birdcage droppings:1. As Jean Ann Esselink reports for The New Civil Rights Movement, Pope Francis... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Jerry Slevin on How "Finn Sacking . . ....
Jerry Slevin at Christian Catholicism on how the Finn sacking shows the tenacity of abuse survivor Marie Collins in holding the pope's feet the fire regarding... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Dear, Dear Pope Francis, Get off the...
Dennism502 at National Catholic Reporter responding to an article by Joshua J. McElwee reporting on Pope Francis's continued defense of the "gender... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Charles Pierce (with Love from Sirach) to...
Charles Pierce, writing from his Irish Catholic-flavored shebeen with a reminder of what the bible says, to the Supreme Catholic men "Antonin, Anthony, Sam,... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "This Whole LCWR Crackdown Was Planned ....
My Facebook friend Mary DuMont Brower responding in my Facebook feed this morning to an article I had linked, by Sarah Posner writing in Al-Jazeera America abou... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Mollie Wilson O'Reilly on Vatican Report o...
Mollie Wilson O'Reilly at Commonweal on the "final report" that the Vatican released last week, ending its investigation of U.S. Read more
Posted on 22 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "This Is a Big Deal . . . . Until Finn,...
David Gibson at Religion News Service on five lessons to be taken from the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn as bishop of St. Joseph-Kansas City: This is a big... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Big U.S. Catholic News of Day: Bishop Robert Finn Resigns
And, of course, the big news in the Catholic church in the U.S. today: the convicted felon who was bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Robert Finn, has just... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
The Ben Affleck Story: PBS Ignores His Slaveholding Ancestry — Valuable...
Two people with insightful commentary on a recent news story: as Mary Elizabeth Williams notes at Salon and Kali Holloway at Alternet, emails leaked due to the... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: Events at McGuffey High School Are a "Reminder That Large-Scale...
J. Bryan Lowder writing at Slate about an "anti-gay day" organized by some students last week at McGuffey High School in Claysville, Pennsylvania, in which... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: Odd That No One Ever Asks Rubio and Others Employing a...
In several postings in the past several days, I've zeroed in on the, well, odd tendency of many centrist religious commentators about religious freedom and gay... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Ongoing Problems of Addressing Online Bullying and Hate Speech: Kelsey McKinney...
At Vox today, Kelsey McKinney takes a look at a new Twitter "upgrade" that will apparently permit Twitter users to message anyone with a Twitter account. Read more
Posted on 21 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Sodomites and Pansies: An Update to My Posting About Use of These Slur Terms at...
An update on the two offensive comments in threads at Commonweal and National Catholic Reporter that I highlighted in a posting here yesterday, one using the... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
About the Use of Terms Like "Pansy" and "Sodomite" at Responsible Catholic...
In light of the ongoing determination of responsible Catholic journals (e.g., National Catholic Reporter and Commonweal) to continue permitting people to use... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY
