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• Invoking Imbolc

  

  As the year continues her eternal circle, we find ourselves once again at Imbolc, the cross-quarter day between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• On My Honor

  

  Some old fashioned institutions fear new learning. Although I was a Boy Scout for only a couple of years, I grew up in Cub Scouts and Webelos and had a pretty... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mercurial Monotheism

  

  A friend recently asked about Isaiah 45.7, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Know Thyself

  

  Perhaps it is a perverted sign of the times, but sometimes I seek myself online. Not surprisingly, most of what I find there is stuff I’ve posted myself. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Old-Tyme Religion

  

  Run, two, three, jump, slap, run, two, three, jump. I can’t believe that I’m Molly dancing on a January afternoon with total strangers and it’s just over... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Avenge This

  

  Recently rewatching The Avengers I noticed a subtext that had escaped me the first couple of times I saw it. When Loki explains to his victims why he is... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Moocher Man

  

  Influenza seems to be going around. Since I spend at least three hours a day on a crowded bus I get to observe all kinds of uncouth behavior. Not that I’m alway... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Stonefaced

  

  Imagine, if you will, life on the open sea. Back in the whaling days. Days before enlightenment really took hold. Transpose that thought onto railroads. In a da... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rational Religion

  

  God, Reason and Religion, the title of Steven M. Cahn’s book, fit uneasily together. Or so it would seem. Cahn, a philosophy professor, collected together in... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Neander Valley

  

  Because we can—but should we? This is technological ethics in a nutshell. While we are still debating what it means to be human and the majority of people in th... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Twist and Shout

  

  True crime is not really my thing. I find regular life disturbing on a frequent basis, and reading about how someone willfully harmed another only seems to... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• King’s Highway

  

  Sometimes I forget the beauty of the Bible. With its constant current of misuse in our society, it is sometimes easy to forget that, like an abused child, the... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Money Poppins

  

  Easy answers seldom hold up. Generalizing is a way of dealing with the vast amounts of data people continually process. Now that many of us in the “developed”... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Angels of Ages

  

  February 12, 1809. Both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born. Some days can be momentous that way. Although I’d known about this coincidental birth for... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Hardsell and Gospel

  

  When I find myself a considerable distance from my point of egress sometimes I have to take the subway to escape New York. Don’t get me wrong—I love New York,... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Deep Things

  

  Religion concerns itself with the big issues. The biggest. As a child, I remember wondering how anyone could be concerned with less than the ultimate. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Witnesses All

  

  “Only the bad man. I see. And you know these bad men by sight? You are able to look into their hearts and see this badness?” The words of Eli Lapp in one of... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• 2014

  

  New York City, in a public place—I dare not say where—I see this sign. A certain Orwellian chill shivers my mind as I think back to 1984. Posters everywhere; yo... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Splice of Life

  

  Although not really scary, and although almost attainable with current technology, Dren is a curious monster. Many movies of the horror genre have explicit... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Here’s the Church, Here’s the Steeple

  

  Americans seldom seem to fuss much about religion unless they perceive that it is under threat. We’re real believers in religious liberty that way. The threat... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY