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…
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Reverend Billy Talen
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.
Let’s Be Feral Adults Raised by Kids!
Hi Rev, my 10-year-old daughter and her friends took part in the recent school walkouts for gun safety. I’m…
The Green Woman in New York Harbor
Our advice columnist Reverend Billy on aiding immigrant neighbors targeted by ICE and being sexy, not sexist.
Rev Billy explains what is wrong with the GOP and offers tips for surviving the cold, dark months ahead.