Tag Archives: Christianity

The Untold History of Zines…. Steve Hughes on Stupor

By Mark | December 27, 2013

Over the years I’ve mentioned my friend Steve Hughes and his zine Stupor several times on this site. I’ve shared videos of him reading at the Shadow Art Fair, and interviewed him about his various projects in Hamtramck, where he makes his home and runs an art space called Public Pool. To my knowledge, though, […]

Posted in Detroit, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bill Rohde, blood, Clinton Snider, collaboration, DIY, Dorota Coy, eastern mich, EMU, Factsheet Five, Hamtramck, Hope College, horrifically sad stories, Hygienic Dress League, interviews, Janet Kauffman, Jessica Frelinghuysen, Kickstarter, Kresge Foundation, Linette, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Matthew Barney, Michael Jackman, mud, New Orleans, oral history, poison, Public Pool, rust, seedy, self-publishing, sex, Shadow Art Fair, Steve Coy, Stupor, The Untold History of Zines, toilet, true stories, truth, truthiness, University of New Orleans, zines, Zug Island | 14 Comments

Reza Aslan on looking for the real Jesus, the threat of fundamentalist literalism, and making white heads explode

By Mark | July 29, 2013

If you spend any time at all on the internet, you likely saw a video making the rounds yesterday of religious scholar Dr. Reza Aslan repeatedly defending his decision to write a book about the life of Jesus to Fox News host Lauren Green, who clearly felt as though the subject should be off limits […]

Posted in Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Albinus, Ananus, Buddha, Ceasar, Festus, FOX News, God, Islam, Jerusalem, Jesus, Josephus, Judaism, King David, Lauren Green, messiah, Palestine, religion, Reza Aslan, Rome, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth | 9 Comments

Remembering Karl Pohrt, the man behind Ann Arbor’s Shaman Drum

By Mark | July 15, 2013

Late last week, Karl Pohrt, the driving force behind Ann Arbor’s historic Shaman Drum book shop, passed away at the age of 65 after a long battle with thyroid cancer. Having been an admirer of his work over the years, I’d wanted to mention his passing on the site, and offer up a place for people […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture | Also tagged American culture, Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection, artifacts, book stores, Buddhist, Buffalo Bill Museum, conscientious objector, Death, Detroit Institute of the Arts, DIA, Five Guys, fuck cancer, good bosses, Ian Fulcher, Jean Herny, jobs, Karl Pohrt, Keith Taylor, life after death, native american, native american artifacts, Patrick Elkins, people who make a difference, people who will be missed, people whom I respect, Plains Indian, Raymond McDaniel, Richard A Pohrt, sangha, Shaman Drum, sincerity, University of Michigan, Vietnam War | 14 Comments

The subject of poverty finally makes its way into the presidential campaign

By Mark | September 15, 2012

As I’ve mentioned before, I was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the day before Robert Kennedy arrived there to begin his tour of Appalachia. I don’t know that it explains why, over the course of my life, I’ve been so drawn to Kennedy, but it’s an odd coincidence, I think, and I find it hard to […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Appalachia, assassination, Baptists, Bruce D. Meyer, budget cuts, Bush tax cuts, Christian, Conference of Catholic Bishops, entitlements, faith based initiative, homelessness, hunger, hunger in America, James X. Sullivan, Jesus, John Edwards, Kairos Prison Ministry International, Kentucky, Lexington, Martin Luther King, Matthew Yglesias, MLK, National Association of Evangelicals, Obama, poverty, poverty tour, Presidential politics, RFK, Robert Kennedy, Romney, social safety net, tax the rich, The Circle of Protection, wealth inequality, welfare | 14 Comments

Did Jesus exist?

By Mark | June 17, 2012

Earlier today, a reader by the name of Edward, in hopes of stirring shit up with our of our resident trolls, who happens to be an evangelical, conservative Christian, shared the image to the right. It’s not something that I would typically move up to the front page, but I found the subsequent conversation interesting, […]