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Today Canadians are celebrating Canada Day, their national equivalent to our 4th of July.  Their celebration reminds me of how fortunate I think we are to have such an independent country as our northern neighbor. 

In a sane world, with sane opposition on issues of concern this would not be happening.  The video is here.  It may no longer be a question of left vs right, where genuine issues exist over which people of good will can disagree, but between the insane and the sane, with Glenn Beck and his…

I am amazed that I have heard so little as to why the purely private option no longer works for medical insurance and never will again.  The reason lies in the very logic of capitalism and the market.  While right wingers have made the national debate pretty mindless over health care, as over everything else,…

I’ve just finished Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce’s  new book, Wild Justice: the Moral Lives of Animals.  Theirs is a wonderful book that in less than 200 pages has deeply changed how I look at our other-than-human neighbors on our planet.  It has moved me still further from the sociopathic assumptions that increasingly define modern…

Last week I went with a Pagan friend to the Marin Interfaith Council’s meeting, to hear Barbara McGraw give a talk on church and state in America.  McGraw is author of Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground,  a very good discussion of how our Founders anticipated relations should be between church and state. California’s spiritual diversity was…

The forgiveness thread Cheryl started is a wonderful one, and I want to give it special placement.  Forgiveness is a fascinating topic.  I have a remarkable story that offers an inspiring perspective on that issue.

This is open to whomever to bring up whatever.

From an Iranian student on her blog.  Look for 3:09 PM. “I will participate in the demonstrations tomorrow. Maybe they will turn violent. Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed. I’m listening to all my favorite music. I even want to dance to a few songs. I always…

This weekend marks Midsummer, the Summer Solstice celebration.  Pagans of many different types will be celebrating Summer Solstice 2009 in small and large groups across our country.  Because we focus on the Sacred as immanent in our world, everything that exists can be understood as a better or worse manifestation of the Ultimate.  And those…

I was intrigued with the finding in the Pew poll that those Americans who did NOT go to church were the most opposed to torture.  Over 60 percent of white evangelical Protestants supported torture, the highest percent of ll groups reported, and those unaffiliated with any religious organization were least willing to back it.  Under…
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