I am grateful to CM reader Pacific231 for taking the time to write this: “I am hardly the most appropriate person to stick up for Christianity. But the exceptional author and scholar Marcus Borg notes that when atheists set out to debunk ‘God,’ they are debunking the ‘supernatural theism’ view of God, the view that…

A large spider wove a perfect web outside our kitchen window yesterday, giving it a deliberately-built front row seat for tomorrow’s full moon in Aries, which will rise right over our tiny garden. Tomorrow’s full moon is almost everybody’s favorite, the moon closest to the Autumn Equinox, the Harvest Moon whose light, says Waverly Fitzgerald…

The Harvest Moon The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,A vast balloon,Till it takes off, and sinks upwardTo lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon.The harvest moon has come,Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon.And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum. So people can’t…

How touching, sad, and beautiful that the Harvest Moon will be glowing over the Amish farms of Pennsylvania, as families gather to grieve the little girls murdered this week. Here’s a fragment of T.W. Burger’s article for Religion News Service about how the Amish bury their dead. “The bodies of the dead will be dressed…

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