Tripp York

Billy Graham Claims Mormons will be in Heaven

Well, not quite. But it is kind of ironic that a man who has spent his whole life telling everyone how Jesus is the “only way” endorses a non-Christian for President. How progressive! And how strange. On Billy Graham’s website, he provides a definition of a cult that fits, quite adequately, the Mormons (I was just […]

Tripp York

Prayer in School, Not Closets! (Jesus, you’ve been trumped again)

Ah yes, everything was so perfect back then. Women knew their place, blacks couldn’t attend schools, share bathrooms or eat with whites, it was kosher to be anti-Semitic, and after centuries of hard-work Native Americans were, finally, almost completely decimated. And more importantly . . . we had prayer in school! It was very formative, […]

Rickey Laurentiis

Ghazal for Emmett Till

A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.