Tag: religion

  • Crossroads of New Orleans

    Crossroads of New Orleans

    I feel for those who go to New Orleans and only experience Bourbon Street. It’s quintessential New Orleans, too, but it’s the New Orleans of excess, where gaudy, oversized cocktails are thrust into hands, and the music is drowned in the din, lost beneath the flashing neon. The magic is…

  • Donald Trump Made Me Leave Mormonism

    “Becoming more liberal in your politics is the first step out of the Church.” Valerie, the Prophetess

  • My Year of Living Religiously: Buddhism Up First

    My Year of Living Religiously: Buddhism Up First

    As I shared in my previous post, I’m about to embark on a year-long exploration of different religions. I am seeking to understand them through lived experience, and not just from the textbooks that I spent the last year studying. It is time to live them.