“I'm a Christian man and I command a Christian ship! I will not lead men into sin!” ~Captain Thomas Davies (Roots) I recently watched the 1977 television miniseries Roots again, and discovered, again, why it was such a huge hit when it premiered: a sweeping saga about an American…
This was sent me last week:
Dear John, I am a secular humanist who practices Buddhism. I am writing to you because I appreciate your writings regarding people like me who do not follow Jesus. I would like to share some of my history with you, and explain why I no longer follow god.
A couple of years ago, I read Dr. Martin Luther King’s A Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I was mesmerized by the passion and anger in his words and although we are in the second decade of the 21st century, his words still resonate. This letter I am…
In July 2010, as I read yet another comment of not so thinly veiled hate on a thread on Facebook, two things happened to me: (1) I vowed never to keep quiet in the presence of a hate comment (on Facebook, or anywhere else), and (2) this quote—baldly borrowed…
By: Hank Dulap Jason Dale Bolton was only 16 years old when four assailants brutally tortured and murdered him in front of a group of witnesses that, because of the 'bystander effect' and diffusion of responsibility, neither helped nor testified against the men responsible. To this day, Bolton's assailants…
By: Stephanie Miller "UK lesbian artists band together to combat homophobic bullying." In essence, The L Project is part non-profit organization bringing together lesbian artists for the purpose of drawing awareness to the LGBT community and other organizations involved with the LGBT community, and it's also part artistic project.…
By: Stuart Billingsly Sexual anorexia is a term that refers to a man's inability to get an erection in any sexual context without the aid or supplement of porn—to which in many cases it's entirely solitary. And scientists have found that the number of men suffering from sexual anorexia…
Here's what I look forward to: A day when (some) straight people no longer feel the need to say they're ‘straight, but they support LGBT rights.’ Too bad there's still the compunction to make that distinction. Gay rights = human rights. We're all the same. Someday orientation will be…
By OcJim Who are the people responsible for the starvation of education in America and the heartless treatment of the vulnerable? We all have a role in this disgrace, but the biggest role can be laid at the feet of the rich -- most notably, Wall Street marauders, conservative…
The year was 1984. My wife Catherine and I were living in Lancaster, CA, a small, blazingly hot town on the western edge of the Mojave Desert, where she and I had moved to help care for her sick mother. Here's pretty much exactly how I will always remember…