Kristin Rawls

With the Supreme Court stiking down Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, it is imperative to take the voting rights battle to the streets, as North Carolina did with Moral Mondays.

When I first thought about writing the book, I thought I was dealing with the same Scientology I remembered, but I’ve since realized that it has changed. We never thought of it as a religion back then! We would call it a Church, but we would “wink” because we were fighting to get tax-exempt status. But I know that Scientologists today believe that it’s a Church—a religion—and it is becoming one.

The first annual Wild Goose Festival, held in North Carolina at the end of June, was a snapshot of the state of the conversation regarding the status of LGBTQ folk in progressive Christianity.