A new poll on American religion was just released by the Pew Foundation, with the results reported in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other places. It found that Americans (still) overwhelmingly identify themselves as religious people, if such a thing can be measured by belief in God, which 92% of those questioned do, in some […]
A few years ago, I published a short story about a girl who—with her family—is thrown out of a small-town church because of sexism and hypocrisy, and how it scars her and her family. “I guess the church has probably drove more people away from God than Satan,” she says, “and it almost drove me […]
Jon Dee, Willie, and Gretchen Graham
Maybe things were hard at home for Austin singer/songwriter/guitarist Jon Dee Graham; or maybe, as my friend Joe Behen, visiting from Kansas City said, he was having a bad night. Maybe his meds were a little out of balance. Maybe he was hoping for a bigger crowd. Maybe he was […]
