Deseret News Magazine | May 2021 IT’S not every day that an atheist witnesses a miracle, but I saw one more than five years ago in Salt Lake City. On March 4, 2015, at a downtown press conference, a group including LGBTQ leaders, representatives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and mostly conservative legislators announced…
The Atlantic | July-August 2014 A FEW months ago, an odd news story out of St. Louis caught my eye. A Christian-owned dog-walking business had fired, so to speak, a customer who supported legalizing marijuana. “We simply said it was against the idea of being clean and sober-minded and treating your body as a temple to…
The Advocate | December, 2010 IT SOUNDS like a joke, but it isn’t, and you get your choice of punch lines. So…these college students walk into a mom-and-pop bakery in Indianapolis with an order for rainbow-colored cupcakes and cookies. Seems they’re celebrating National Coming Out Day. The bakery owners turn down the job, saying it violates their…
The Atlantic | May 2003 ITcame to me recently in a blinding vision that I am an apatheist. Well, “blinding vision” may be an overstatement. “Wine-induced haze” might be more strictly accurate. This was after a couple of glasses of merlot, when someone asked me about my religion. “Atheist,” I was about to say, but…