counterculture

Too Much to Dream

Coming Down

By Scott Korb | November 28, 2011

A conversation with Peter Bebergal, an old co-author with a new book.

"shoot the bokeh (bokeh murder)" by horizontal.integration via Flickr.

Shoot

By Nathaniel Page | November 22, 2011

An exercise in recreational destruction.

Occupy Wall Street in Washington Square Park on October 8, by Darwin Yamamoto, via Flickr.

Mic Checked

By Rachel Signer | November 14, 2011

How Occupy Wall Street occupies your heart.

"Talking Ayahuasca" by Ayahuasca_Pix via Flikr.

Meriado

By Alli | March 22, 2011

Feeling the Vision in Peru.

"Burning Man 2009" by Mindaugas Danys, via Flickr.

Castles Made of Sand

By Becky Garrison | March 4, 2011

Some pointed questions about Burning Man for Steven T. Jones.

Killing the Buddha

“The famous, as we know, are nuts.”

By KtBniks | August 18, 2010

Read “moving” and can’t get enough of Eileen Myles? Wanna know how to honor a dead poet and how to get hate mail that persists for a quarter century? (HINT:…

Jay Bakker from a Kenneth Cole ad.

Happy Hour Gospel

By Joseph Huff-Hannon | August 11, 2010

The Bakkers’ son has a church of his own—in the back of a Brooklyn bar.

ruthnorman

Jesus Is Just Alright

By Mark Dery | July 9, 2009

A crack in Kevlar cynicism reveals a time of tripped out mysterium tremendum in Southern California. A new excerpt from the new KtB collection, Believer, Beware.

Baba

Baba, Baba, Everywhere!

By Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet | December 11, 2004

God is a Dickhead — conclusive proof from Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible.

Image from "Knocking of Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of the Counterculture" by Mark Oppenheimer (detail)

That Old Time Religion

By Jeff Sharlet | November 24, 2003

Still strange, but different: Three new books look at the changing shape of religion in America.

Shoes

Sex, Shoes, and California Zen

By Philip Ryan | May 2, 2002

Growing pains and hanky panky at the San Francisco Zen Center.

An elf spotted recently on the New York City subway.

Elven Like Me

By Nick Mamatas | April 12, 2002

They don’t just make cookies anymore — elves and other changelings are
everywhere.

Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountain Higher Power

By Peter Manseau | March 29, 2002

Running low on enlightenment? Stock up at Colorado’s spiritual supermarket.

Love Me Do

Love Me Do

By Isaac Lipfert | February 13, 2002

A meditation on love songs and the rhetoric of True Love.

Church and Cemetery on Rt. 11

The Shenandoah Sutra

By Peter Manseau | January 17, 2002

Crossing the Mason-Dixon to tour the battlefields and bathrooms that have shaped the nation’s soul.

"Hair 2001," by Jeremy Brothers for KtB

Among the Jesus Freaks

By Charles Marsh | July 7, 2001

Sit-in, pray-in, sing-in, and be-in with the son of a preacher man and a camp of Christian acidheads.