Skipp Porteous
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Skipp Porteous is a former Evangelical Christian minister, now an outspoken critic of religious extremism of all kinds. A convert to Judaism, he has claimed that "man created God in his own image, and he doesn't like the image."
He has written about his life and experiences in Jesus Doesn't Live Here Any More. In 1984, together with attorney Barbara Simon, Porteous founded the Institute for First Amendment Studies (ceased operating 2001).
Porteous formerly campaigned to expose and counter the political activities of the Religious Right.
In 2007, following his own investigation, Porteous claimed to have unmasked a former paratrooper and airline employee as being missing aircraft hijacker D. B. Cooper
. His analysis and conclusions were featured in New York
magazine, and later published in his own book, Into the Blast: The True Story of D.B. Cooper in 2010.
He has written about his life and experiences in Jesus Doesn't Live Here Any More. In 1984, together with attorney Barbara Simon, Porteous founded the Institute for First Amendment Studies (ceased operating 2001).
Porteous formerly campaigned to expose and counter the political activities of the Religious Right.
In 2007, following his own investigation, Porteous claimed to have unmasked a former paratrooper and airline employee as being missing aircraft hijacker D. B. Cooper
D. B. Cooper
D. B. Cooper is the name popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington on November 24, 1971. He extorted $200,000 in ransom and parachuted to an uncertain fate...
. His analysis and conclusions were featured in New York
New York (magazine)
New York is a weekly magazine principally concerned with the life, culture, politics, and style of New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to The New Yorker, it was brasher and less polite than that magazine, and established itself as a cradle of New...
magazine, and later published in his own book, Into the Blast: The True Story of D.B. Cooper in 2010.
Publications
- Into the Blast: The True Story of D.B. Cooper (with Robert Blevins), 2010, Adventure Books of Seattle
- Jesus Doesn't Live Here Any More: From Fundamentalist to Freedom Writer, 1991, Prometheus BooksPrometheus BooksPrometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by Paul Kurtz, who also founded the Council for Secular Humanism and co-founded the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is currently the chairman of all three organizations. Prometheus Books publishes a range of books, including many...
- The Freedom Writer, newsletter/magazine [1984-2000]