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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On Antithetical Thinking, the Masculine Protest, and Double Consciousness: Gay...
I think I've mentioned to you several times before that I keep a log of quotations from things I've read over many years that leapt out at me as I read. Read more
Posted on 19 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Most Men with Homosexual Tendencies...
Two days ago, I noted,Comments threads at Catholic blog sites are, to put the point bluntly, all too often used to attack LGBT people and fellow Catholics who... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Bilgrimage Birdcage: "When the Critical Moment for Cultural...
I'm struck by a wise observation of Ruth Krall in response to my posting yesterday about how the actual behavior of some U.S. Catholics belies the claim that th... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Women's Rights, Gay Rights: Snapshot of an Ongoing Conversation
We've been having a conversation here of late about recent much-ballyhooed statements of performers Patricia Arquette and Madonna that gay rights are more... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Talking Welcome and Mercy, Acting the Opposite: A Footnote to My Previous Posting
A quick footnote to what I posted earlier today: after I posted about the comments responding to Tom Fox's series of articles at National Catholic Reporter abou... Read more
Posted on 17 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
As Pope Francis Talks Welcome and Mercy, I Listen to What Many U.S. Catholics Ar...
What exercises the minds of many Catholics right now is interesting, isn't it? I remain in a despondent space — I'm struggling these days — and I had decided... Read more
Posted on 17 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
I Try to Keep You in My Memory: On the Struggle to Remember, a Poem on the...
Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of my brother Simpson in 1991. His was one of several family deaths at which I'd be present during the decade... Read more
Posted on 15 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Lisa Fullam and Gary Gutting on Catholic Natural Law Theology and Need for New...
When I read Lisa Fullam's recent Commonweal essay about contraception and Gary Gutting's New York Times essay about unraveling the Catholic ban on gay sex, I'm... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Madonna on Gay Rights as "Way More Advanced Than Women's Rights": Some Noteworth...
Something else gaining attention in this week's news: Madonna's statement,Gay rights are way more advanced than women’s rights. People are a lot more open-minde... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
News Catch-Up: Philadelphia Gay-Bashing Story, Bondage Illustration for Vatican...
This is one of those end-of-week posts in which I try to catch you up on stories about which I've blogged in the past, which have a sequel:1. Read more
Posted on 13 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quite for Day: Oklahoma Legislators Providing Signal That "It Is Open Season on...
Following the online circulation of the video to which I linked in my previous posting, in which members of a fraternity at University of Oklahoma chant racist... Read more
Posted on 11 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Jesuit Education and the "Band of Brothers" Back in the News: University of...
Racism is alive at The University of Oklahoma. @President_Boren pic.twitter.com/eAvnPD8jxA— Unheard (@OU_Unheard) March 8, 2015(The video above is from an 8... Read more
Posted on 11 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Frank Bua on How Movement for LGBT Rights Must Not Leave Southern LGBT People...
Another quote for today, this one directly related to my first posting this morning, which speaks of my decision in 1965 to leave my family's Southern Baptist... Read more
Posted on 09 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: Derrick Jensen on How Long-Held Hatred Propped Up by Religion,...
As Derrick Jensen notes, long-held hatred masked by tradition, religion, economics, etc., often appears "normal" until its religious, economic, or other props... Read more
Posted on 09 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Selma, Catholic Support for the African-American Struggle for Rights, and LGBT...
Before I fell silent for a period of time at the end of February and in early March, I blogged about my decision to choose the Catholic church as a church home... Read more
Posted on 09 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
A Story for You on a Cold Sunday in Lent: I Go to Mass, I Start to Fall, a...
Stories sometimes demand to be told, and as they form in our minds, we aren't entirely sure why they want to be heard. The following is one such story.It's... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Quote for Day: Naomi Klein on Why We're Stuck with Climate Change — It's About...
Naomi Klein is incisive — and powerful — as she explains why the human community is unable to address climate crisis that is now threatening the whole planet an... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: What's Changed Since Selma? Ask the Five...
At Commonweal, Dominic Preziosi asks what has changed since Selma, and Tom Blackburn replies: Selma was about voting rights when it began. It led to the Voting... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Women in the Catholic Church: Critical Voices Engage the "Francis Revolution"...
In a New York Times article yesterday, Elisabetta Povoledo notes that, though Pope Francis has spoken of the importance of women in the life of the church,... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY -
Remembering Selma's Bloody Sunday (in Light of Ferguson): Some Links for You
Read these excerpts (and articles) commenting on Selma and Ferguson as a narrative, and I wonder what story they tell. What story do they tell about us? Read more
Posted on 07 March 2015 LGBTQ, RELIGION, SOCIETY
