Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

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

›
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...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

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

›
Because the following posting seems (to me, at least) so pertinent to the post-synod discussion right now about the Catholic (un)welc...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Quote for Day: Leonardo Boff on Link Between Christ and Krishna, Charisma and Caritas — Questions Worth Asking

›
Leonardo Boff, at his blog site several days ago:
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Weekend Party Celebrating Our Marriage: Love Does Matter (No Matter What Catholic "Pastoral" Leaders Say about Gay Love)

›
I've been away from the blog for several days, dear friends, because Steve and I organized a little party this past Saturday to c...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Charlotte Observer on Charlotte Catholic High Controversy: Kudos to Bishop Jugis for Discovering Charity . . . Now, That is

›
Writing for the Charlotte Observer , Peter St. Onge notes how . . . very odd . . . it is that Catholic Bishop Peter Jugis of Charlotte...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

Quote for the Day: "We Must Love One Another, Whatever Our Condition in Life, Canine or Otherwise"

›
I'm reading Alexander McCall Smith's Love Over Scotland (NY: Random House, 2006) now, and love this passage in which he comm...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Catholic Blogger Asks Why Gays Don't Feel the Love When Some Christians Hold Forth; Frank Strong Responds

›
At the Dominicana blog site , Dominican brother Dominic Mary Verner asks why many gay folks often perceive the love of Christians opp...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

A Mormon Mother's Testimony: "My Religion Didn’t Teach Me How to Love. Jordan Did. My [Gay] Son Did."

›
Today's my birthday, and Steve has a birthday lunch planned for me at a Chinese restaurant we both love. So I'm going to take a ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Bridegroom: An Interview with the Filmmaker, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

›
A quick footnote to my posting last week  about Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's wonderful new documentary Bridegroom, focusing on the...
Monday, November 4, 2013

Bridegroom: The Love Story of Tom Bridegroom and Shane Crone, a Primer about Gay Youth, Coming Out, and Religion in the Heartland

›
I mentioned several days ago that the Oprah Winfrey network had aired several programs about being gay in America. One of the films ...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Leonardo Boff on Lumen Fidei, Benedict (and Francis's) Encyclical on Faith: "Without Love, Truth Is Insufficient for Salvation"

›
Leonardo Boff At his blog site, theologian Leonardo Boff recently offered a response to the encyclical of Popes Benedict and Francis o...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

Please Don't Call It Love: Gay Catholics Respond to Cardinal Dolan

›
Okay, one of those scourge times again, albeit that it's Eastertide and we're supposed to be basking in the love of the risen...
Monday, December 31, 2012

From the Blogs: End-of-Year Statements by Phil Ewing, Michael Bayly, and Frank Cocozzelli

›
Three good end-of-year pieces by fellow bloggers whom I esteem greatly and from whom I always learn a great deal:
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Ten Points about Love as the Signpost Along the Way: Retreat Notes, Day Three

›
Pilgrim Feet More reflections from this period of retreat--which I offer with some concern that I'm foisting on others what are...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Schism in Catholic Church? A Snapshot of American Catholic Responses

›
And for a crisp snapshot of precisely where that thriving "we're number one!" right-wing Catholic church ( about which ...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Book Ends: Paul Russell's The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov

›
I didn't intend to finish Paul Russell's novel about the life of Vladimir Nabokov's gay brother Sergey on Palm Sunday.  I...
Monday, August 8, 2011

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

›
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,...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

A Report from the Front: Sunday Liturgy at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco

›
Steve and I went to liturgy this past weekend at Most Holy Redeemer church in the Castro district of San Francisco.  It's the parish o...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Pastor Steven Anderson: The Impossible Road from Jesus to Hate

›
Jim Burroway at Box Turtle is asking readers of his blog what we would ask Pastor Steven Anderson if we had a chance to talk to him. Steven...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

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

›
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 ...