At the end of August, one of my favorite Ypsilanti artists, Rita Jane Riggs, will be packing up and heading west to see what the universe has in store for her. Please join me in wishing her well on her journey. MARK: What first brought you to Ypsilanti, or were you born here? RITA: I […]
Tag Archives: God
Reza Aslan on looking for the real Jesus, the threat of fundamentalist literalism, and making white heads explode
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 […]
My tenuous and ugly connection to our new Miss America
The other day, I caught part of an interview with our recently crowned Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. I wouldn’t normally watch something like that, but she was talking about how she wanted to use her new celebrity to draw attention to the plight of children with incarcerated parents, and I guess I found that compelling. […]
Christopher Hitchens on the Pope
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I’d lost a lot of respect for the seemingly perpetually inebriated Christopher Hitchens over the past decade – what with all the Bush love – but his recent work on the Pope and his culpability in hundreds of molestation cases is winning me […]
“God came upon her and she conceived”
I don’t know if Jack Chick intended this to be hilariously funny, but I’ve ben laughing at this particular panel for almost 20 years now.