Not About Religion Magazine and Blog
An intelligent, open-minded discussion of belief and non-belief...for entertainment purposes only.
Where Everything is Music Don’t worry about saving these songs! And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn’t matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music. The strumming and the flute notes rise into the atmosphere, and even if the whole world’s harp should burn up, there will still be hidden [...]
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Bless me, O Lord, and these your gifts, your emissaries: bacillus, yeast, and virus, protozoa and metazoa—all who receive me as their gift. I thank you for this, our Holy Commensalism.
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Do you ever get the feeling you’re being watched?
A new poem by John Morris.
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In New York, no one is atheist.
A poem by John Morris.
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Are we afraid to look toward God?
A poem by Caitlin R.
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Were we, perhaps, not happier when we were monkeys?
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Where do you want to be when you’re done with this life and go on to the next?
New lyrical Prose from Emily Wilson.
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I was hoping to pass right through the herd without being sucked into the swirling cesspool of patchouli stench, henna tattoos, dreadlocked heads, hacky sacks, hemp necklaces, pot smoke, and body odor. And there they were in all their glory, waiting peacefully for the doors to open. Many sitting on the cold, wet pavement, smiling at the beauty of the world.
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I love life because God loves me.
I don’t believe I’d be thrown
into a hay stack to find a microscopic needle
of a “truth”, and be punished if I’m not so lucky.
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An old church, existential conversation, a convenience store heist, and the tear king.
New short fiction from Thomas Storey.
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A poem by Lloyd Lofthouse, author of My Splendid Concubine
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