My Unsecret Abortion

I had an abortion. A full-fledged three-day affair in 1974. I wrote about it in detail in my memoir — After the Flag has been Folded. It’s a very telling part of my life and even if you don’t give a rat’s tail about Vietnam, you ought to read the book just to read about [...]

How media messed up the Rapture: As soldiers lay dying

Several years ago when I was working as a local reporter I arrived at the news office around 6 a.m. to find a woman sitting on the curb, the back door of her 60s-era van wide open. There was a sleeping bag, clothes and some sort of round satellite dish in the back. It was [...]

Church of the Illicit

“I am fully prepared to go to jail for my church,” said Mr. Jin. ” I belong to the Lord, and if this is what God intended, so be it.” Christians all over the world are ramping up for Holy Week. Easter, better known in America as Obligation Sunday, is the one day a year [...]