For many individuals recovering from addiction, the path of living a balanced life is a process, not an event. Each person seeking to live life free of addictive use of substances must find his or her own way to sobriety with the help of friends, significant others, family, mentors and many times with a treatment…
Judging political debates often has a Mean Girls feel to it. Like, you may think you like someone, but you could be wrong. You wouldn’t make a final decision without asking some friends, in this case the rest of the punditry, because the media coverage and spin have as much to do with the long…
Real estate and mortgages are co-dependent and though other factors impact prices and sales rates, none probably more than the ability of buyers to borrow money. So this week we’re looking at whether impending increases in interest rates will do any serious damage to what is now a hot market in San Diego and other…
thursday, aug. 20 The Comedy of Errors Laughter will ring out under the stars as Shakespeare’s hilarious tale of mistaken identity takes the outdoor stage. A young man and his servant arrive in town, unaware that each of them has a separated-at-birth identical twin already there. This can’t end well – or maybe it can,…
At 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, I found myself at a protest in Los Angeles over the number of trans people, mostly trans women of color, who’ve been murdered this year so far. The latest was Tamera Dominguez in Phoenix, Ariz. who was run over multiple times in a church parking lot by an SUV….
Sometimes I still fight having a bad day, despite being an optimist and knowing God’s love for me, and that I’m surrounded by loving people. We need to be honest. Life happens. I’m so grateful to my colleague, Rev. Dr. Durrell Watkins (Senior Pastor of Sunshine Cathedral MCC, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), who wrote this blog…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)released new polling to show broad support for the newly introduced Equality Act in swing districts across the country. The Equality Act – which was introduced with a record number of original cosponsors — would ensure permanent non-discrimination protections for LGBT Americans. “People across the country have embraced the…
WASHINGTON – Today 130 major religious, education, civil rights, labor, LGBT, women’s, and health organizations delivered a letter to President Obama urging him to review and reconsider a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel that has been used to permit taxpayer funded discrimination. The letter warns that the 2007 memo “reaches the erroneous and…
On his radio program yesterday, Bryan Fischer argued that he and others like him were “born a Christian” and repulsed by homosexuality and so they ought to be entitled to have their associated rights respected and protected by the government, reports Right Wing Watch. Fischer took a call from “Terry in Macon, Georgia,” who argued…
BBC2 will air Britain’s first trans sitcom this fall. Boy Meets Girl was created and written by Elliott Kerrigan and Simon Carlyle, the Manchester-based comedy was discovered through the Trans Comedy Award – a BBC Writersroom talent search in partnership with Trans Comedy, which offered aspiring writers up to £5,000 for the best script that promoted a…
