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I Keep Making Lingering Eye Contact With Someone at Church. It’s Wrong on So Many Levels.
6+ mon, 3+ day ago (330+ words) I am in love with a man I can’t have. He happens to be a priest who is married to the “church.” I have been avoiding attending Sunday masses because I began going for the very wrong reasons—just to…...
Our Culture of Excess and Distraction Is Making Us Sick. But I’ve Found a Cure, and It’s Delicious.
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (677+ words) And somewhere along the way, all of it made us tired and sick. Psychologists call it information fatigue syndrome, data overload that disrupts sleep and degrades concentration. We are overspent, overstimulated, exhausted, and we know it. About half of Americans…...
Slate’s open thread for the week of August 10
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (115+ words) The True Heir to King Solomon, in This Week’s Open Thread slate.com On this day in 1270, the Ethiopian Emperor Yekuno Amlak overthrew the reigning Zagwe king and gained the throne, establishing a dynasty that persisted into the 1970s. Amlak, who…...
When Church Was a Queer Space
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (145+ words) Reflecting on a series coming to a close and an epidemic still unfolding. As When We All Get to Heaven wraps up, Christina sits down with series host Lynne Gerber and producer Siri Colum. They discuss how the church has…...
“The Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I’m Gay”
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (267+ words) In the 1960s, the Metropolitan Community Church was one of the first gay-positive churches. When AIDS hit, it became a refuge. When the Metropolitan Community Church was founded in the late sixties, it was one of the first gay positive churches…...
We’re Taking This “Mormon” Trend Too Far
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (113+ words) The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, Trust Me: The False Prophet, and influencer culture are giving Mormonism a dangerous rebrand. We’re Taking This “Mormon” Trend Too Far Why are we so obsessed with making Mormons famous? Choose your…...
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (388+ words) A church romance blossoms between a hula dancer and a lumbersexual. You can see Scott perform in a 1992 InterPlay piece called “God, Sex and Power” here. He’s the one with the bandaids on his knees. Scott’s San Francisco hula school…...
How an LGBTQ+ Christian Church Faced AIDS in 1980s and ’90s San Francisco.
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (218+ words) A queer church tries to remember all they lost to AIDS. We do too. This project received generous support from individual donors, the Henry Luce Foundation (www.hluce.org), the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and California Humanities, a non-profit…...
SchadenFriday: Is the Pope Girlbossing AI?
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (147+ words) Our postmodern pope’s meta-callback to another papal deep-cut. It’s a bit of an overstatement to say “the Pope came out as anti-A.I.” with last week’s encyclical—after all, Anthropic’s cofounder was there for the release. So what did the…...
A Sermon With “Old Fashioned Homosexual Values.”
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (396+ words) Ten years into the AIDS crisis, the country starts to notice. A little bit. The Sunday after Magic Johnson announced his HIV-status, Jim Mitulski preached a sermon on being tired of people dying. We’re sharing it as an interlude, a…...