Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is author of
The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life, of
Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God, of
Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, of
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, and of
Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More, and is editor of
Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients. She has been a public speaker for many years, and many of her talks can be seen on YouTube. Her writing has appeared in multiple magazines and newspapers, including Ms., Penthouse, Chicago Sun-Times, On Our Backs, and Skeptical Inquirer, and numerous anthologies, including
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong and three volumes of
Best American Erotica. (Any views she expresses in this blog are solely hers, and do not necessarily represent this organizations.) She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid. You can email her at gretachristina (at) gmail (dot) com, or follow her on
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I’ve had the Living After Faith podcast for awhile with parts of that convention and an interview with her on it, and finally listened to it last week. She was really moving. I’m glad you got to interview her as well!
So I’m guessing she didn’t try to convince you that Methodists are totally in favor of making decisions based on reality and human needs rather than faith and dogma….
Greta: Great work, you were the star of the show. Thanks for standing up with such an eloquent voice. Well done!
I missed a bit of the show but listened to the whole thing on podcast later in the day. I sent Kerri Miller a complimentary email as well, which she acknowledged.
Keep up the good work!
Wow – that was so powerful! so many thought provoking and salient points made by both of you. I agreed on the difficulty of grief and the celebration of commitment to truth. And both of you have such a positive and kind point of view… I was just so proud to be on the same side as you both. Thanks!
I was born 1934 raised Methodist and believed there was a God until High School and was taught evolution as fact and I wandered away from faith until I was 20 and wandered in to a Southern Baptist Church in Las Vegas New Mexico and heard a real sermon by a real preacher and I trusted the Lord Jesus and He has not failed me the last 68 years. I keep up with the changing dogma of evolutionists but the truths of the Bible never change! I love athiests and know so many who now have faith!