Showing posts with label Diarmaid MacCulloch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diarmaid MacCulloch. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

On Wrecking of Online Conversation Spaces by Trolls: Recent Commentary

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Because I happen to have run across two very good pieces of commentary in the past day or so, about how trolls are trashing open di...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Historical Memory and Political Imagination: "When the Discourse of Politics Amounts to a Choice Between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton"

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What's that I hear you say? More history, please! Or perhaps I'm hearing, at this far distance through the ether of cyberspac...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Nicola Denzey's The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women — Book Notes

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My last posting was, in some respects, a piece of historiographical commentary. It was a meditation of sorts on how historians might...
Monday, May 23, 2016

More Commentary on Pope Francis and Women Deacons: Jamie Manson and Mary Hunt — "He Believes That God Simply Cannot Work Through the Female Body in the Way in Which God Works through the Male Body"

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Here are two more pieces of good commentary I'd like to recommend to you, regarding the discussion of the possibility of studying...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Sharing Our Life as Theology: Another Videotaped Theological Conversation with Ivone Gebara, About Diarmaid MaCulloch's Silence, Christian Amnesia, and Gospel Mandate for Inclusivity

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I've previously shared with you two videotaped conversations that I had the honor of having in the past year with the distinguished B...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Diarmaid MacCulloch Again, on How Anger of Aggrieved Heterosexual Males Drives Many Christian Churches Today

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As I think about the firing of Tony Spence of Catholic News Service this past week and about the underlying heterosexist and male-pr...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

"There Is Almost Complete Silence on Homosexuality" in Amoris Laetitia: There's Silence and Then There's Silence — Interpreting the Silence of Amoris Laetitia About LGBTQ Lives

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So, silence. What to do about silence? Massimo Faggioli writes about Amoris Laetitia , 
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Diarmaid MacCulloch on Historians, Silence, and Sexual Orientation: "As a Gay Child and Teenager, I Also Effortlessly Developed . . . An Observer Status"

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A few days ago, I made some connections between Diarmaid MacCulloch's book Silence: A Christian History  (NY: Penguin, 2013), wh...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Peter Saunders, Member of Vatican Abuse Commission, Silenced, and I Finish Reading Diarmaid MacCulloch's Silence: A Christian History: Making the Connections

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Silences such as Christian involvement in child abuse, anti-Semitism, slave-owning, demand constant rupture. On such noise does the hea...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Diarmaid MacCulloch on Anger of Heterosexual Men Driving Religious Conservatism, and Mess Anglican Leaders Have Made for Themselves

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I've shared these observations with you in the past. I think it might be helpful now to gather them together in one posting, fo...
Friday, December 11, 2015

Theological Roots of Bitter Battle of Some Christians Against LGBT Rights: The Bible Can't Be Wrong (We Can't Be Wrong, and Heterosexual Men Rule)

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Here's a set of interlocking observations that, to my mind, share a common theme: 1) a comment an Episcopal priest made to me yes...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch on Why Angry Conservatism Characterizes Many Religions Today: It's About Threatened Heterosexual Male Power and Privilege

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The graphic should enlarge if you click it. And I want to add a note of gratitude to Rachel Fitzgerald for recommending Diarmaid MacC...