Showing posts with label silence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silence. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Speak Out, and They Will Silence You: John Pavlovitz on "the Heart Sickness American Evangelicals Have Inherited"

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If you speak out, they will shut you down — or try to do so. As happened to me this past weekend when I insisted on talking about r...
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...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

On World AIDS Day, What Message of Good News Do Catholic Leaders Have for People Affected by HIV — After Pope Francis's Trip to Africa?

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Yesterday was World AIDS Day. What was the official, unambiguous statement of good news offered by the leaders of the Catholic church...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Frank Mugisha, Ugandan Advocate for LGBT Rights, on Pope Francis's Missed Opportunity for Conversation on Protecting LGBT Persons

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Amy Fallon writes , 
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

"I Will Never Be Silent Again": Pastor Frank Schaefer to United Methodist Church Court

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Rev. Frank Schaefer "I will never be silent again," United Methodist pastor Frank Schaefer told the church court that tr...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

When My Silence Is Actually Speech

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When others are being dehumanized and I see what is taking place but remain silent, my silence is actually speech. By remaining silent, I am...

Why I Cannot Remain Silent: On the Necessity of Speaking Out in Face of Injustice

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I could not remain silent. When the rights of my African-American brothers and sisters were being assaulted during the civil rights struggle...

At the Crossroads, the Impossibility of Remaining Silent

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As expected, the California Supreme Court upheld proposition 8 today. And as I mull over the court decision, I’m thinking back some 40 years...
Sunday, February 3, 2008

The Sounds of Silence

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“I have never heard a sermon that offered wisdom as to how a gay man should live his life in a faithful Christian manner. All I have heard i...