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Usually when I address abortion and Biblical issues this blog is filled with many comments by the “pro-life” crowd.  I am struck with their silence many days after the initial posting of the entry two posts below this one. Perhaps we have found a an argument that will make these people actually think about the…

Glenn Greenwald has a very incisive dissection of the New York Times’ article on Egypt.  It gives thoughtful Americans plenty to think about.   It also looks as if the Republicans and Democrats who like democracy only when it is controlled by them and their paymasters may be getting ready to spread the old WMD…

In her book The Battle for God  Karen Armstrong distinguished between mythos and logos in a way that sheds light on both Pagan spirituality and current irrationality on the part of the religious right. The abortion issue is a good case in point, made particularly relevant today by current efforts to subjugate women to arbitrary readings…

It’s wonderful and magickal.  Debbieseakay created it and she takes beautiful pictures as well.   I am grateful to Anne Laurie over at Balloon juice for finding it.

When the New Yorker interviewed me about an article  they were preparing over the political impact of Charles and David Koch, I emphasized that when I knew Charles Koch in my high school and early college years, he was a sincere libertarian, not a garden variety right winger or oligarch.  Ideas and ethics mattered.  So did…

With thanks to Makarios for calling my attention to it, here is a response from members of America’s Indian community to the  bigots and worse on the right.

One of the most deeply rooted differences between almost every Pagan and conservative Christians is our diametrically opposed views of women and the feminine.  We exalt the feminine as Sacred, they denigrate it as spiritually inferior to their male deity.  Women are equal to men, and not just because they can act as men, but because…

While most of the country is still deep in snow, the days have grown noticeably longer since the depth of Winter’s darkness.  In California along with brighter days the first flowers of the year are already blooming.  In this strange winter a few flowers never stopped blooming, with the domestic roses confused, trying to go…

At least one bigot blogging against the Yaqui prayer at the Tucson memorial service for those murdered by Jared Loughner has gotten into trouble over it. Not enough, but it’s a start. May it grow.

Sabina Magliocco brought this site on prairie dog language up on her Facebook site.  It’s great.   Turns out that a whole lot more is going on with prairie dogs than any Westerner ever thought. And if this is true for prairie dogs, think of how true it is likely to be for a great many…
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