What To Do When Your Friends Hold Reprehensible Views
Hey Reverend Billy, I’m someone who values friendships, especially friendships that go back over many years. However, in these…
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Pride and Courage In The Age of Climate Change
Hi Bill, I was pleased to learn that the Williams Pipeline won’t be pumping fracked gas through New York…
Justice Begins In the Imagination
Hi Billy, I just read how Anita Hill won’t cut Joe Biden any slack for dragging her name through…
Climate Change is Rendering Formal Education Meaningless
Dear Rev, Every year I take my kid to the annual Earth Day celebration in Union Square. She loves…
Dear Billy, I think my friend is joining a left-wing cult. You know the kind that sell their newspapers…
Love In a Time of Conflict Minerals
Hi Billy, my girlfriend proposed! But meanwhile life is going extinct. There’s racism and oceans full of plastics and…
An Extinction Rebellion Christmas
A special holiday message from Reverend Billy.
Change-a-lujah: Doing Everything We Can Do to Save The Earth
I have felt nervous speaking before groups of people ever since my school days. I can still hear my…
Why Old, Rich, White Guys Are So Pathologically F’d Up
And other musings from our advice columnist.
Every month, The Indypendent’s advice columnist, Rev. Billy Talen, tackles the mental and spiritual quagmires of the Trump era.