Reverend Billy

We are submitting to the mug shots of an activist photographer. We are confessing to crimes against big banks in advance. So there is a pre-criminal condition that we share.

The disappearers come at us from two directions. Jail and big banks. So we try to shed double light....

Obama compared Occupy Wall Street with the Tea Party, and then called one right and the other left. He doesn't get it. Noami Klein said the Occupy Wall Street is not a place -- that it is a state of mind. She gets it.

MoveOn made a fundraising offer to...

Al Jazeera came along for our "Exorcism of the Bank of America" last week. We wanted to preach some BIG BANK SPECIFICS. B of A, according to Rainforest Action Network, is the top financier of CO-2 emissions industries, including mountaintop removal, tar sands, hydro-fracking... This bank hurts people and the Earth.

We'll take our money out. Amen?...

On that impossible day when the skyline of New York City collapsed on its southern tip -- I watched from a rooftop...

Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture -- all wrapped into one big institution -- that is simple common sense!  When we draw our last breath together, all the functions of living will be mixed together in that one breath.  There won't be separate powers anymore.

The Christianized Jesus -- the turning of a radical into a conservative shadow of his former self -- explains our problem of establishing and celebrating freedom fighters today. It is important that our progressive heroes be given a deserved fame, an accurately reported fame. This is crucial in ways that...

There were hundreds of millions of Kindles and Nooks frozen in death, stuck on one page -- "Why America Slept." You can say one thing about us, we were a species that scribbled, texted, hologrammed and burst a blood vessel of pixels in the final years. Every last atrocity was...

The Earth is inside us, rotating in there like a conscience. These freak storms, tsunamis, droughts and extinctions only confirm what we carry inside. Each of us knows that we will have to change some...

There is a new sales campaign the Disney Company recently announced. Wall Street analysts talk excitedly about the "newborn market." Disney representatives enter hospitals' birth rooms with sales kits, trying to sell onesies with Mickey logos to the enthralled or scared parents soon after the baby cries for breath. Yes...

The one question I return to: from the center of our vast population, can we human beings reach out to the thing that created us? The industrial inebriation of traffic-life, computer-life, and military-life -- is so complete. We as the top dog species isolate ourselves from the Earth -- just...

A short clip of Rev's sermon from last Sunday's Earthalujah service. Join us this week live in NYC and online at Revbilly.com.

The wet blue ball that spins in space has its own belief system. How can we join THAT church? Earthalujah!

We are watching the Earth, sitting here with Jehovah, Christ, the Prophet or the thousand gods of secular humanism. We are watching the Earth's amazing Wikileaks, sharks swimming across Australian...

In the past few days, I've roamed inside big groups of Americans who are singing together. Christmas carols. On Christmas day itself, something about the words in those songs stopped me. Lines like "Joyful all ye nations rise, join the triumph of the skies!" and "The stars in the sky...

On Black Friday/Buy Nothing Day -- we enjoyed our annual turn on national television, cutting into the heavy-breathing shopping reports with our alternative Christmas. A comment like "But if we stopped shopping -- what about jobs? -- what about the economy?" would ring in the air again and again.
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Crunched shoulder to shoulder on a cold bench in the Tombs, with the courtroom hundreds of feet above us on the surface of Manhattan, up there beyond the reach of these hundreds of African-American and Hispanic men. Well, there was me, and then a couple guys who looked like elderly...

It's official: Consumerism and Militarism are the same thing.

Watching the Jets football game last Sunday, I witnessed three entertainments. First, there was a commercial for a new video game, Black Ops, in which ordinary overweight accountants, peppy secretaries, i.e. "ordinary Americans" --- sport enormous guns. In this 30 second...

When change comes to us, we call the people who brought that change, people who rallied and marched and finally forced us to change...

Since I don't have a television at home, when I'm in a motel I can't help but surf around the channels. So I experience all those cop shows -- with the manufactured evil that drives those stories toward the next commercial break. The evil...

I always read the papers with a yearning. The headlines, photos and lead paragraphs flicker on the screen under my stare, and I'm looking for something not there. I find myself looking at the table, the sun on the wall, then out the window...

A remarkable letter was sent out over the weekend, from the heads of Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, and Bill McKibben of 350.org. The letter asked for new activist ideas in this time of earth emergency, and asked for a world-wide "work party" on 10/10/10....