White Crane #70 - Contents

The White Crane Guide
to Charlatans, Chicanery & Other Perils of Cheap Grace in Gay Spirit Land

Cover Art by Frederick Nunley

FALL 2006 · # 70

ONLINE SAMPLES ARE HIGHLIGHTED AS LINKS

Departments
Opening Words
"If You Meet the Buddha In the Baths"
by Dan Vera & Bo Young
Call for Submissions
Letters
Updrafts by Dan Vera
Honoring Elders "John Addington Symonds" by Dan Vera (PDF file)
re:Sources by Eric Riley
The Everyday Sacred by Donald Engstrom
PRAXIS “Air Freshener for the Soul” by Andrew Ramer
Subscriber Information

Specials
A White Crane Interview with Peter Grahame of Ironic Horse Studios
Bo Young & Dan Vera

My People, My Tribe:
An Interview with C. Cleo Creech
Dan Vera

Taking Issue:
The White Crane Guide to Charlatans, Chicanery
& Other Perils of Cheap Grace in Gay Spirit Land:

All Our Lies Holy by Randy P. Conner
Superchrist in a Superstate by Malcolm Boyd
The Everyday Charlatan by Greg Marzullo
Prophets For Profits: Dodging False Messiahs by Perry Brass
Your Money or Your Life by Q. Planet
Keep It Quiet: Secret Mentorship for New Generations Of Queer Men And Women by Chris Bartlett

Poetry
June 22, 1969-June 27, 1969 by C. Cleo Creech
Pentecost by James Day

Culture & Books

Kathleen Dobie on
Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer

Jesse Monteagudo on
Two Spirits: A Story of Life With the Navajo by Walter L. Williams & Toby Johnson

Amara Das Wilhelm on
Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita

Greg Fletcher-Marzullo on
Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan

Jesse Monteagudo on
Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles and the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation by James T. Sears

Toby Johnson on
Sex and the Sacred: Gay Identity and Spiritual Growth by Daniel Helminiak

Steven LaVigne on
Two Boys in Love by Lawrence Schimel

Steven LaVigne on
The Passion of Mary Magdalen by Elizabeth Cunningham

Toby Johnson on
Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage by Mark Jordan

MUSIC:
Bo Young on
Buddha Machine by FM3