- 1. The Persian New Year, or Nowruz, is the Perfect Way to Refresh and Reset—And Also a Great Excuse to Stuff Your Face with Amazing Food (Family Recipe Included!)
- (Living)
- ... back approximately 5,000 years. Although it has roots in Zoroastrianism—an ancient religion that predates both Islam and Christianity—Nowruz is not considered a religious holiday. Instead, it’s observed ...
- Created on 18 March 2022
- 2. "This Boy We Made" is the Tale of One Black Mother's Journey Through Mothering a Chronically Ill Child, Genetics, and Facing the Unkno
- (Books)
- ... her relationship with Christianity and how it motivated her without making one feel like they’d have to share her faith to understand. Especially successful are her vivid depictions of her family, of the ...
- Created on 11 January 2022
- 3. For Centuries, Halloween Was a Day for Young Women to Predict Their Future Husbands: A Look At the Unlikely Romantic History of All Hallow's Eve ...
- (General)
- ... off evil spirits, and telling fortunes. About a thousand years later, when Christianity overtook the Celtic nations, the church declared November 1 as All Saints Day (aka All Hallows’ Day), a holiday ...
- Created on 21 October 2021
- 4. Cultures That Embraced LGBTQIA+ Identity Before Colonization Messed Everything Up
- (Living)
- ... as Christianity, slavery, and golf. Here are three fantastically queer cultural practices from around the globe that said “fuck you!” to the white, heteronormative patriarchy. Queerness in India Photo ...
- Created on 10 June 2021
- 5. Lil Nas X Ignites Satanic Panic with his Haunted, Celestial Music Video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”
- (Music)
- On March 26, Lil Nas X released the music video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” and the internet has not known peace since. “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” accepts and subverts the religious ...
- Created on 02 April 2021
- 6. Meet Crystal Cheatham, The Queer Christian Activist Who's New Bible App Delivers Inspiration Without Persecutio
- (Living)
- ... podcasts, Bible translations, and other curated material for progressive faith-seekers. “We include content that’s affirming,” she says. “It’s not hard to present a version of Christianity that’s free ...
- Created on 01 April 2021
- 7. Canadian Judge Challenges Justice System in Case of Indigenous Women Charged with Drunk Driving
- (Feminism)
- ... Indian Affairs with a policy of “aggressive assimilation.” Indigenous children were taken away from their families and forced to adopt Christianity and “Canadian” customs. This was cultural genocide, a ...
- Created on 06 October 2020
- 8. Let The Ancient Spirit of Hekate Awaken Your Inner Dark Goddess
- (Living)
- ... gates to our souls. In some of humanity’s earliest texts, she is portrayed as a great mother figure whose soul fuels the world. But during the Dark Ages and the rise of Christianity, when the feminine ...
- Created on 26 August 2020
- 9. Big Freedia Opens Up About Beyoncé, Bounce, Being Black in New Orleans, and Her Boo: BUST Interview
- (Music)
- As the foremost ambassador of New Orleans bounce music, Big Freedia is the rule-breaking, ass-shaking, noise-making pop star we need right now A LOT HAS CHANGED for Big Freedia since we first featured ...
- Created on 23 June 2020
- 10. ‘The Lodge’ Leaves the Audience in Frozen Fear
- (Movies)
- ... from Martell and Keough. This film leaves you obsessing over it for days after, reexamining your own morals. Although it is an intense look at Christianity and repentance, it does not seem cliché or tired ...
- Created on 10 February 2020
- 11. This Vagina Goddess Is The Best Ancient Symbol You've Never Heard O
- (Arts)
- ... Against the Heathens”) around 200 AD. The purpose of this essay was to mock and demonize the Greek’s pagan belief systems, in order to convert people to Christianity. In his rants he describes a number ...
- Created on 30 January 2020
- 12. The Subtle Misogyny of Christian Girl Youtube
- (Feminism)
- ... human man with an extraordinary will to revolutionize his community with love as the guiding principle. This is not exclusive to Christianity. Nearly every famed religious prophet in recorded human history ...
- Created on 04 November 2019
- 13. Progressive Christian Writer Rachel Held Evans Dies At 37
- (Feminism)
- ... to the rules for women the Bible presented, from camping in a tent in her backyard during her period to covering her hair. Evans was a crucial figure in the complicated conversation surrounding Christianity ...
- Created on 07 May 2019
- 14. A Feminist Pastor Gifted Gloria Steinem With A Vulva Sculpture Made Of Purity Rings
- (Feminism)
- ... to speak her mind, and she founded Denver's progressive, inclusive House for All Sinners and Saints in 2008. Bolz-Weber’s most recent book, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, is about Christianity and its ...
- Created on 19 February 2019
- 15. "When I Spoke in Tongues" Is A Compelling Debut About The Loss Of Fait
- (Books)
- ... her parents discovered her flirting with drinking, drugs, and girls, they staged an intervention that drove her from faith and family. Even after renouncing Christianity, however, Wilbanks found herself ...
- Created on 10 October 2018
- 16. The Legend Of The Unicorn Goes Back Almost 2,500 Years
- (General)
- ... of them. The Mystic Hunt of the Unicorn by Martin Schongauer, 1489. The unicorn has often been intrinsically linked to Christianity. Not only are unicorns mentioned several times in the King James ...
- Created on 18 September 2018
- 17. Hayley Williams Of Paramore, Before "After Laughter": From The BUST Archive
- (Music)
- To celebrate BUST’s 25thanniversary, we’re bringing some of our favorite cover stories online. Here’s our interview with Hayley Williams of Paramore from our December/January 2014 issue. By some ...
- Created on 25 July 2018
- 18. 6 Ways To Celebrate The Summer Solstice
- (Living)
- ... your beliefs in the spiritual may run, everyone can enjoy this tipping point of the astronomical summer in several simple ways. Make A Fire Predating Christianity, ancient Pagans greeted Midsummer ...
- Created on 20 June 2018
- 19. Whatever Happened To Those Girls Who Signed "Purity Pledges"? Hint: It's Not Go
- (Sex)
- Ever wonder what happened to the millions of girls who signed “purity pledges” in the late ’90s and early ’00s? Turns out, they didn’t live happily ever after. And for many of them, the “true love waits” ...
- Created on 10 April 2018
- 20. Five Christmas Ladies Who Can Supplant Santa This Holiday Season
- (General)
- ... to Icelandic lore pre-dating Christianity, Gryla is a giant troll with hooves for feet and 13 tails. Oh, and, she also has an insatiable appetite for human children (Gryla used to feed on her husbands, ...
- Created on 18 December 2017
