“[The church] needs about 400 years of repentance to queer people,” the would-be priest laughs.
Shut Up and Listen: Conversation 3
Category: Creative Nonfiction
An Oral History of the Gods in North America: Leave the Shit Behind
More than ever, the question of religion is a crucial one for our times. The journalist Sarah Smarsh suggests that the political left is finding religion again in the United States. Inspired by her work, I decide to talk to people whose faith motivates their need for social justice.
Q&A
I know that Charlie, Millie's husband, has been dead for four years, but she isn't able to lacerate new events into the flesh of memory.
Walking on Water
. . . I led him straight to Jesus. He repeated the prayer after me and was saved. I filed the paperwork that afternoon.
CREDO: Confessions of a Devout Agnostic in Two Verb Tenses and Three Acts
Do I believe in God, god, gods? No. No. But. No. Yes. Maybe. No. Yes.
Creativity
My mother believes in God because of creativity. Not mine, not hers, not anyone in specific, but because it births itself through us; through our keyboards, our pens, our paintbrushes, our chisels, our pianos, forcing itself through channels we cannot control.
Psaltery & Lyre 