Showing posts with label Rowan Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rowan Williams. Show all posts
Sunday, November 3, 2013

They Gave a Schism and Nobody Came: Commentary on Christian Right's Loss of Culture War vs. Gays in Europe and America, Transfer of Battle to Africa

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This tells me that discussion of the anti-gay politics of the U.S. religious right has gone mainstream (and thank God for that developm...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Churches and Gays: Stephen Fry on Ex-Gay Therapy, Becca Morn on Exporting of Anti-Gay Hatred, Rowan Williams on Appalling Anti-Gay Violence of Many Christians

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It's worth watching Stephen Fry's stylish, humane look at ex-gay therapy * for his observation (at about the 8.24 mark) that Jos...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Anglican African Bishops Meet to Fight Western Pansexualism: Anglican Version of Theology of the Body

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Here's the polite Anglican version of right-wing Catholic rhetoric about keeping African men men and African women women: this is David...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

NCR on Uganda: The Scandal of Catholic Silence

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News analysis of the ongoing deliberations about the fate of gay citizens in Uganda has died down in the holiday season, though Box Turtle B...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Some Manhattan Signatories Critique Ugandan Legislation (and in Doing So, Give Away Their Game)

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Various news sites (e.g., the Pew Forum’s Religion News site ) are reporting that the death penalty for gays is back on the table now in Uga...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Lutherans Play Fair: ELCA Rejects Supermajority Maneuver for Vote on Gay Ministers

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Some fascinating developments are taking place these days at the churchwide assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA). ...
Saturday, August 1, 2009

Quakers Endorse Same-Sex Marriage: A Challenge to Rowan Williams re: How Churches Change Their Moral Minds

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Yesterday, I wrote that churches change their moral minds when cutting-edge groups of prophetic believers take the risk of speaking out, ne...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Poor Rowan Williams: The Moral Conundrum Facing the Churches Today, Through Gay Lives

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Two days ago, I challenged the poor-Rowan Williams meme now developing in centrist Catholic circles (and in centrist Christian circles in g...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Poor-Rowan Williams Meme and Catholic Centrists: Unearned Superiority

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I have to get something off my chest. I’m irritated, frankly, by the poor-Rowan Williams meme developing in centrist Catholic circles , in ...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

When Us Doesn't Mean Us: The Archbishop of Canterbury on the Place of Gays in the Episcopal Church

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In a recent NY Times article about the meeting of the Episcopal Church USA now underway in Anaheim, Laurie Goodstein quotes the Archbishop...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Theological Reflections on Gay Marriage: Prologue

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Yesterday the Huffington Post blog site posted a link to a Ruth Gledhill article in the Times (London), which publishes some of Rowan Willia...
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Under the Magnifying Glass: Domestic Spying, Churches and Gay Employees, Faith-Based Programs

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Interesting echoes of points I’ve made in previous postings, in a number of online articles I’ve read in the last few days. Today’s AlterNe...