Showing posts with label love ethic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love ethic. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

As GOP Moves to Strip Healthcare Coverage from Millions, U.S. White Christian Leaders Revise the Gospels: Eric Erickson's Attack on Scripture

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In what I posted earlier today , I provided an excerpt from an article David Roberts has just posted at Vox , analysing the "trib...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Some Valentine's Day Thoughts: On Love, God, and the Churches' Destruction of Gay Lives and Gay Love

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And now some Valentine's Day statements for you — about love (and what assaults on love in the name of "God" can do to pe...
Monday, July 20, 2015

"You Can't Say You Love Someone . . . and Then Disagree with a Positive Movement for Their Civil Rights": Continued Discrimination Against LGBT People in Catholic Institutions and the False 'Love the Sinner' Meme

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Colin Israel writes an open letter to an uncle who informs Colin that he loves him, but cannot accept the Supreme Court's marria...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Dorothee Sölle on Inseparability of God and Love: Implications for Catholic Discussion of Welcome Tables

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Because the following posting seems (to me, at least) so pertinent to the post-synod discussion right now about the Catholic (un)welc...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Inspiration for the Day: "We Shall Win by Love"

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Inspiration for the day from the Facebook feed of Dream Defenders , whose Facebook page describes the group as "an organization di...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "We Are Called to Bless Any Kind of Love. He Who Doesn't Bless, Curses. And That's a Sin."

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This is one of the good  droppings, as opposed to the malodorous ones that help fertilize gardens--this is cloistered Dominican nun Sis...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

New Zealand MP Maurice Williamson on the "Gay Onslaught" We Can Expect When Marriage Equality Arrives

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The Catholic and Evangelical Message Side by Side: Loving Gay Sinners to Death

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It's interesting to read (Catholic) commentator Fr. Matt Malone side by side with (evangelical) commentator John Shore on how s...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

This Was a Week: As Gay Rights Breakthroughs Occur, Backlash Among Some People of Faith Continues

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This was a week. It was a week in which  the French Senate voted through  legislation enacting marriage equality and adoption by same...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Do We Need to 'Affirm' Mass Murder, Megalomania, Necrophilia etc. in Order to Love These People?"

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I've told this story on this blog before.  I want to do so again now, at the risk of boring readers, because it has a helpful an...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Margaret Farley's Just Love: Just Love Is About Real Persons and Their Concrete Reality

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More excerpts from Margaret Farley's  Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (NY: Continuum, 2006): these strike me...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Catholic Hierarchy's Approach to Gays and Inversion of Moral Values: Serious Apologetic Challenge

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One final observation about the exceptionally serious apologetic challenge facing the Catholic community as their leaders' statem...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Reflections on Rick Perry's Response Rally: Attack on the Love Ethic and Corporatist Puppet-Masters

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I didn't watch Rick Perry's Response rally this weekend.  I took last week as a kind of retreat-discernment week, and as I did so,...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Obedience to Pastors as the Center of Catholic Faith: A Postscript to Discussion of Chicago Priests Challenging Cardinal George

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    A postscript to what I published earlier today about the challenge a number of Chicago-area Catholic priests are mounting to their archb...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Patrick Cheng on Theological Reading of Prop 8 Decision, and What Centrist Catholic Silence about the Decision Portends

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Re: Judge Vaughn Walker’s magisterial document explaining why opposition to gay marriage based ultimately  only in prejudice (religious, p...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

John McNeill's Prophetic Witness to the Churches: Enough of the Denial of Gay Love!

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Jesuit theologian John McNeill has long been a hero of mine. When I could not find a vocabulary to name the love I experience as a gay man ...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

On Valentine's Day, Thoughts of Love

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A happy Valentine’s day to all. A day to think of love—and what love means. So we’ve begun the day listening to the West Coast Mennonite C...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The Truth Thing: Religion, Politics, and Owning God's Word

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Sometimes I have to go on a fast from religion. To save my soul. More precisely, sometimes I have to get away from religionists in ord...