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What the GOP’s Religion-Heavy Platform Means to Pagans 6 Jan 2012 | 04:51 am
I wanted to elaborate on a post I made on my blog yesterday about the results of the Iowa Caucus. I’ve been writing a lot about the Republican Party and it’s pro-fundamentalist Christian agenda. As a ...
Sustainable Living as Civil Disobedience 13 Jul 2011 | 07:21 am
The Rosa Parks of Sustainable Gardening? Everyone knows the story of Rosa Parks, the African-American civil rights activist who on December 1, 1955, refused to give up her bus seat to accommodate a w...
Only the Dead: On Memory and History 1 Jun 2011 | 04:33 am
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – George Santayana Popularly misattributed to Plato, it was Spanish-American George Santayana who first wrote that ringing phrase in his “Soliloquies in Engl...
The End of Jihad 6 May 2011 | 02:47 pm
Bin Laden’s death at the hands of SEAL Team Six on Sunday has sent shockwaves around the world. The mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks who stayed out of reach of American forces for nearly a decade, g...
Obama’s Justice 6 May 2011 | 09:38 am
I don’t have a lot to add to the conversation about the death of Osama bin Laden — most of my thoughts are summed up well by others — but I do want to point out something that struck me about Barack O...
What Does Justice Look Like? 4 May 2011 | 06:03 am
What does justice look like? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself over the past few days, in the wake of the startling news of Osama bin Laden’s death. Responses have been flooding the internet as ...
Civility and Hospitality at Pagan+Politics 24 Apr 2011 | 03:06 am
It seems a link to our Comment Policy has gone missing from the header of this blog, so I would just like to take this opportunity to refresh everyone’s memories about the role of civility and hospita...
New McCarthyism 23 Apr 2011 | 04:21 am
Yesterday Congressman Cliff Stearns’ (R-Fl) amendment to the 9/11 first responders aid bill went into effect. What is this amendment you ask? One that has the gall to question the patriotism of the ...
Making Peace Out of Nothing At All 11 Apr 2011 | 09:39 am
An amazing, though not surprising, story caught my eye recently in Yes! Magazine on the ever-developing scientific discoveries about our closest primate relatives in the animal kingdom. For those of ...
Rocks and Shoals 7 Apr 2011 | 01:24 pm
In the fall of 2010 the Tea Party was swept into power on a wave of voter discontent promising to turn the country around by reigning in out of control government spending. They were riding high on p...