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The Gulf coast oil spill is offering several important insights beyond the obvious, if Americans will but look.  Obviously it is an environmental disaster of enormous proportions, a crime against nature and spirit, but sadly, there is considerably more this corporate disaster and probable crime brings to the surface.

Still more evidence is arising that Nature is a healing force when approached respectfully.  Washington State has developed a program enabling veterans suffering from PTSD to get involved with Nature in a mutually healing way.  As they explain,  The mission of the Veterans Conservation Corps is to 
assist veterans by providing training and volunteer opportunities that…

I recently went searching for a  wine to use in the “Cakes and Wine” part of our Wiccan rituals.   I went to the organic wine section of a local store since it seemed to me important the wine we used be as respectful of the earth in its production as possible.  A lover of…

Oklahoma’s ‘small government’ and ‘freedom’ advocates have struck another blow at women through big government and coercion.  The state legislature’s Sauronic majority passed a bill outlawing getting abortion coverage in health insurance policies.  This gives most Pagans and other decent people a wonderful opportunity.

Chris hedges, who wrote my favorite book on the nature of war, has a great short essay over at Truthdig.  He discusses the gifts and failures of mainstream religion in our society, and the risk of nihilism that accompanies its growing failure.  I could not agree more.  I think the rise of what I call…

It turns out that immersing ourselves in Nature is good for us in ways that science can actually measure.  A paper published last week, “A Dose of Nature” Jules Pretty and Jo Barton found that people’s mood and self-esteem benefit from what it calls “green exercise.” Prof. Pretty said of his study “For the first…

Mothers’ Day is a day to honor not only our mothers but motherhood in general, the bringing of beings into life and nurturing them.  It’s hardly surprising but sadly unknown that it began as a push against the urge of the powerful to fight wars and kill other people’s sons.   My mom died in 2008,…

The jack booted wing of Catholicism, brought to you regularly by First Things.  UPDATE (and further update) This initial post connected you to Robert Cheeks’ blog entry endorsing killing demonstrators at Ken State because it led to “order.”  That he thought they were revolutionary Marxists added to his pleasure at the carnage. While the blog…

It turns out that in 1980, when Reagan was running against Jimmy Carter for President, Republican leaders worked behind the back of the US Government to obstruct negotiations to free American hostages held in Teheran.  Carter’s failure to achieve release helped propel Reagan into the Presidency – on the back of apparent Republican treason, it turns…

When Sarah Jane Moore attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford, her aim was deflected by disabled former Marine Oliver Sipple, and Ford’s life saved.  Sipple was gay. Under prevailing Republican bigotry and Democratic hypocrisy, he would not be allowed to serve his country in uniform. Faisal Shazhad’s attempted car bomb was first discovered and the…
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