world religions
Meet a Punk-Rock Future Pastor
My tailor friend Yvonne suggested I talk to Jil Bucceroni, the parish administrator at St. John’s here in Hoboken. I’m really glad she did, as Jil is quite the cool character. Here’s my interview with her from the January/February issue of hMAG.
Oh Sandy: An Anthology of Humor for a Serious Purpose
An essay of mine, “Holy Hoboken, Baptized by Sandy,” was accepted into Oh Sandy: An Anthology of Humor for a Serious Purpose, which is available in print and Kindle formats. In it, I chronicle my hopefully amusing observations of religion’s role in that post-Sandy week here in Hoboken. The good, the bad, and the odd. […]
Papal Days
In my mind, John Paul II is still the pope, though I guess he was a sequel too. I was nine years old when he… took office? I don’t even know what you call it. But everything I know about popes, I learned from him. Well, not quite. But let’s just say that there was […]
Meanwhile, at the Deity Meet-and-Greet…
VISHNU: Can we have pie in the backyard? JESUS: Yes. Allah mowed.
I Was Willing To Give Mel Gibson Another Chance
Really, I was. Sure, there had been the anti-semitism and sexism, the homophobia, The Passion of the Christ, that Apocalypto piece of crap, and that crazy beard. I haven’t seen a Mel Gibson movie since Signs in 2002, and I only remember that it was awful, and there were glasses of water all over the […]
I Went to a Christening
It was a lovely ceremony—except for all the screaming babies. I’d been invited to a christening, and, as a godless Jew, had very little idea what to expect. I anticipated only my friends’ child taking the Nestea plunge, but no, there were seven local infants making an especially holy racket. And what was a christening, […]
Jack Silbert, curator