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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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.
I Want Ocasio-Cortez to Run the Mueller Investigation
Our advice columnist Rev. Billy fields readers’ questions on love, religion and Robert Mueller.
Every month, The Indypendent’s advice columnist, Rev. Billy Talen, tackles the mental and spiritual quagmires of the Trump era.
In a formerly secret letter to the office of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, counsel for the U.S. president argued…
Another School, Another Massacre
Another school, another massacre. We thought, foolishly, that the school killings in Florida where a turning point — demonstrations…