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Unorthodox: S.F.'s Counterculture Churches Offer a Road to Redemption 

Wednesday, Mar 18 2015
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Whether founded in the recent past or formed with the intention of poking a little fun at ancient institutions that have given meaning to billions, these groups of spiritual soldiers may access universal truths all the same. Consider, for example, the following words: "I take no small delight in the fact that the iron in my blood was born of a supernova, and eventually our sun will explode and we will go back into the cosmos, and the iron molecules in me will still live out in the universe and may coalesce into something fabulous."

That statement could be a militant atheist rhapsodizing about the material world's poetic sheen, or it could be a polyamorous pastor who ministers to HIV-positive Tenderloin residents. In San Francisco, there may no daylight between them.

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Peter Lawrence Kane

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Peter Lawrence Kane is SF Weekly's Arts Editor. He has lived in San Francisco since 2008 and is two-thirds the way toward his goal of visiting all 59 national parks.

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