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Heterosexual Martyrs and Gay Saints: Did AIDS Coverage Clear the Way for LGBT Equality?

By Diane Winston

…ceptance. In 1973, when the American Psychiatric Association withdrew its classification of homosexuality as a “mental illness,” the change was widely reported as were the growing number of cities that added “sexual orientation” to anti-discrimination laws. By the end of the decade, reporters were filing profiles about a “hip” community with its own bars, clubs, music, and fashion as well as a distinctively uninhibited sexual scene. Journalists al…

Kirk Cameron Joins the Anti-Mormon Chorus
(Sort Of)

By Julie Ingersoll

While a number of conservative Christian leaders raise questions about Glenn Beck’s Mormonism, Worldview Matters’ host Brannon Howse continued his attack in a conversation with Kirk Cameron about why Cameron did not participate in Glenn Beck’s Divine Destiny. Howse marveled at the “thick irony” wherein Cameron (the actor who played Buck, the converted journalist warning about the “demonic spirituality of a one world religion” in the Left Behind m…

Is Herman Cain’s Long-Running Minstrel Show Finally at an End?

By Anthea Butler

…eek, with new revelations of an extra-marital affair with Ginger White, an Atlanta woman who claims to have had a 13 year-long “friends with benefits” relationship with The Herman Cain. As Cain tried to head off speculation about the affair Monday on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, strangely absent was the singing of one of his favorite hymns. According to Cain’s lawyer, this dalliance is no ones’ business, but I beg to differ. When the Republican race fo…

A Valentine for the World…and for the Church I Left

By Carolyn S. Briggs

…just talking the talk. If the world liked me, then I was of the world, the last thing I wanted. I reveled in being astringent, bracing, and honest. According to the Bible, salt that loses its savor is useless. It’s fit for nothing. Twelve years ago, I was living a life that was not lining up with my inner convictions and that became untenable. I mean, talk about hypocrisy. It’s a miserable life to be sort of attached to the vine, but not really. T…

This Narrative of Death that is So Powerful Among Us

By Daniel Schultz

…that. When Goshen does that, school is out. Dan: That’s right. That’s the last line of defense, as it were. Walter: Well, I hadn’t thought of it like that, but that’s a marvelous illustration of what we’re talking about. Dan: About how pervasive it is. And I’m sure you know from your time in the church how that kind of infects the church, so you have to have the flag in the church, you have to recognize those patriotic holidays in worship and sal…

Aliens To Arrive in Alabama Today!

By Ben Brazil

…October 14 dawning around the world, new messages have also arrived in the last several hours, like this one from an anonymous poster: Any last minute regrets, Blossom? It’s not too late to back out now and say it’s all a hoax. I truly hope this event turns out as you predicted. God knows how much humanity needs a kick up the arse! History or disappointment beckons! Others accused Goodchild of profiteering on stupidity, while some posters kept the…

Does Atheism Have a Misogyny Problem?

By Julia Galef

Nighttime shows in Las Vegas feature all sorts of large mammals: lions, tigers, bears, and the rest. So if you had happened to poke your head into The Amazing Meeting, a 1,600-strong skeptic and atheist conference last month, you might be excused for assuming that the giant elephant in the room had escaped from some circus on the Strip. But you’d be wrong. That elephant in the room with us was our own. There’s no pachyderm in Vegas—or on Earth—th…

Grace Under Pressure: Reclaiming Hope for Progressive Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…chemotherapy at University Medical Center, the only public hospital in the Las Vegas area. Soon after, she and her daughter heard the news on TV: The hospital’s outpatient oncology services were closing because of state Medicaid cuts. Treatment for Frye-Jackman and hundreds of other cancer patients was eliminated. Luckily, Frye-Jackman’s gynecological oncologist, Dr. Nick Spirtos, decided to open a tiny chemotherapy center in his office’s empty st…

How Contemporary Spirituality Makes Us Stupid, Selfish, and Unhappy

By David Webster

…. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson). After my desire to have a strong opening sentence, I’d love to have this one: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” Also, having written this, I suspect, would have meant that I’d have got to have had that much fun—and get away with it. What’s your next book? That is just what I’m tryi…

Mourning Jenni Rivera: “When a Lady Dies”

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ular culture. Mourning in Public Tomen tequila y cerveza que toquen fuerte las bandas suelten por mi mariposas apláudanme con sus palmas por que así es como celebran cuando se muere una dama (From Rivera’s “Cuando Muera una Mujer”) As Octavio Paz famously wrote in his monumental work on Mexican consciousness, The Labyrinth of Solitude, “A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.” With the public outpourings of remembrance, the candles…