This post is from the JMBzine Blog Vault, which means it is a very old blog post that I wrote at a very different time of my life. My views on religion (I’m now a Humanistic Jew), politics (today I’m a democratic socialist), and many other subjects (LGBTQ+ inclusion, abortion rights, etc.) have drastically changed over the years, so please bear this in mind when reading this post. Editor’s note (2022): My times attending the Cornerstone Festival in Bushnell, Illinois were hugely influential in my journey and in time were major influences that shaped my thinking on many topics, which is […]