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I cannot count the number of times I have heard well-meaning, good-hearted people say, “Things are a lot better for gay people today than they were several years (or decades) ago. In time, our society (or churches) will come around on this issue.” To these friends and others, I must say, “It’s time.” For Lucas, Brown, Clementi, Walsh, and Chase the time is up. For these teens and the myriad other LGBT youth lost to suicide, the waiting game hasn’t worked so well.

“Whoever has done an atom’s weight of good, shall see it; and whoever has done an atom’s weight of sin, shall see it.”

How does one believe in the unconditional presence of God and at the same time make it a special sacred occasion to perform hajj?

In my younger lither days I would have to persevere through out the day fasting without suhur, but not now, not at my age, so I am having my tea as I type.

The popular term “spiritual but not religious” only goes so far in describing an event like this. I think Burning Man shows us the enduring importance of ritual as a vehicle through which humans connect with one another and as well as with a mysterious “more,” while also showing us how these expressions are increasingly displaced outside the bounds of the dominant Western cultural concepts of “religion.”

To stop five times a day, to assume these postures, to utter this un-self encoded message, makes a difference, not to God, but to us, here and now.

Or, when the rubber meets the road…

I don’t know how the importance of the prophet gets lost in the zealousness of certain defenders, but trust me, this is not about freedom of speech.

Bizarre rumblings from the right about SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan remind us that religion, politics, and sexuality are an inharmonious blend. Add education (think lesbian teachers) and you get full-on cacophony.

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