Monday, November 30, 2015

In Holiday Season, Reminder That LGBT Folks Often Experience Exclusion and Isolation from Family: Derrick De Lise on How Homophobia Hurts

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In this holiday season, I want to share with you a timely reminder from blogger Derrick De Lise, who publishes the journal Queer Voi...

Catholic Officials Explain Pope's Silence About LGBT People in Uganda: They Were "Included" in Pope's Comments Though Invisible, and Ugandans Are Concerned with "Real Problems"

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More on the not surprising (but nonetheless scandalous) decision of Pope Francis to talk about human rights, social justice, toleranc...

Valuable New Resource from Ruth Krall: "A Thomas Doyle Cyber-Anthology: Studies in Religious Community Sexual Violence"

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A note this morning to bring to your attention a valuable new resource Ruth Krall has just uploaded to her Enduring Space blog. Some ...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Reader Writes: "Francis Uttered Not a Word About the Plight of LGBT People in Uganda Because [the Catholic Hierarchy Have] . . . Decided We Simply Don't Exist"

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Chris Morley's reply to my posting earlier today is so good — powerfully written, clear, and right to the point — that I want to...

Fruitcake Making, Home, and LGBT Folks in the Church: An Advent Meditation Noting the Total Silence of Pope Francis About LGBT People in Uganda

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A brief report to all of you on a dreary post-U.S. Thanksgiving weekend in which we've had enough rain to warrant two arks instea...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Two Thanksgiving Videos: Brothers and Sisters Under the Skin, and Our Chance to Atone for the Holocaust

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God's Mercy and Hate Rhetoric in the U.S. Public Square: A Thanksgiving Meditation

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A little (American) Thanksgiving day meditation I shared this morning on Facebook. Since a friend there told me she thought it was valua...