NOTE/Confession: Halfway through reading the “Explainer” piece below, a suppressed memory broke through the mind fog: that of my own drag experience; and yes, bowing to the current fashion, I’m going to spill the sordid details right here. It was around 1990, on or about what the world calls Halloween, at a Friends meeting near … Continue reading My Drag Confession, And An “Explainer”
NOTE: When many of us think, read or talk about the authoritarian religious right today, we reflexively refer to Protestant evangelicals. Yes, most such fit that category; but they are by no means all Protestants or evangelicals. The Catholic church was was spawning and nurturing authoritarian cultures and polities long before Protestants or modern evangelicals … Continue reading God Help Us — St. Francis Has Come to THIS??
I did a great deal of reporting over the last year and a half on the turmoil in the white evangelical church in America. And . . . I can’t underscore this one enough, because I’ve spent a lot of time talking with leading religious figures, scholars, academics, people who know this world inside … Continue reading Quote of The Week: Guns & “Religious Fervor”
The gap between the freedoms and opportunities enjoyed by the system’s affiliated elite and those of ordinary Iranians has never been so wide — and never have so many people expressed so much anger about it. This fundamental repudiation of the system is what makes these protests so different from other restive moments in Iran’s … Continue reading Quote of the Weekend: Iran Women’s Resistance
“Religious Liberty” for THEM, But Not forThe Rest of Us . . . Then They Won’t Even Need to Bother With Voters Anymore . . . Hey, Lincoln Will Be Re-Elected Anyway — What Could Go Wrong?? “Besides, Lady, my friend Ginni says you’ll be outta there soon — once you see the true light … Continue reading Images for the First Monday of October: Are Your Rights Safe? (Hint: Not At The Supreme Court)