In light of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I got to thinking about the book The Devil Wears Prada and the movie based on it. As is often the case, the book was much better than the movie. Maybe this is sour grapes, but I say as both a writer and a reader that the [...]

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Religion, God and Addiction – The Story Behind Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story When I think of my Mormon upbringing, one word comes to mind: Addiction. My mother, an Austrian emigrant who converted to the Mormon religion when she was sixteen, has always been consumed by her Mormon faith —to the point that it almost [...]

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I don’t typically hear about atheists who are as virulently homophobic as a fellow I met on Facebook. This discussion started when I posted on my wall about an anti-gay bill in Nigeria. Royalist Humanist, an FB user, went on homophobic rants too numerous to repeat here but here are a few examples. “I am [...]

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