Terry Firma, though born and Journalism-school-educated in Europe, has lived in the U.S. for the past 20-odd years. Stateside, his feature articles have been published in the New York Times, Reason, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Wired. Terry was the founder and Main Mischief Maker of Moral Compass, a now-dormant site that pokes fun at the delusional claim by people of faith that a belief in God equips them with superior moral standards. He was the Editor-in-Chief of two Manhattan-based magazines until he decided to give up commercial publishing for professional photography... with a lot of blogging on the side. These days, he lives in an old seaside farmhouse in Maine with his wife, three kids, and two big dogs.
Polygamist Mormon sect leader Warren Jeffs was apprehended during a traffic stop ten years ago and ultimately sentenced to life plus 20 for sexual assaults on two teenage girls. Whether his brother Lyle will also end up behind bars remains to be seen. Lyle Jeffs, who was about to be tried for defrauding the government of millions of dollars in food stamps, cut off his electronic ankle monitor the other day and disappeared without an apparent trace. Read more
First Communions are supposed to be suffused with holiness. If allegations against him are true, that wasn’t necessarily the case for father Charles Bodziak, who saw a young girl’s Communion as an opportunity to sexually assault her. Not that other, less solemn occasions didn’t suit him equally fine. Read more
