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Column: Remember the Shield-maidens
In late June, Jade Pichette started the #HavamalWitches hashtag on Facebook. Her explanatory post referenced the Old Norse poem Hávamál (“Sayings of the High One”) and was addressed to women who pract
Paganism politics Perspectives Heathenry Asatru Iceland Asatruarfelagid #havamalwitches Jade Pichette Poetic Edda
Emma Lazarus—The Outsider Poet Who Stole Fame
Emma Lazarus as a young woman. Emma Lazarus was just 34 years old when she penned the lines of poetry that might be the most familiar verse to millions of Americans. Odds were stacked against her ev
Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty New York City Ashkenazi assimilation George Elliot German Romanticism Henry George Newport Rhode Island proto-Zionism. New Colossus Sephardic Jews
Sourcing to Sacred
The sacred comes to those who wait actively, and leave their windows open.
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UU Service Committee (UUSC), the Social Action Side of UUA
From Carly Cronon, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, via Bill Butler, a strong advocate of UUSC: In situations of dire humanitarian crisis, UUSC looks to fulfill unmet needs and support overlo
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entanglement.
The Chinese have successfully teleported an object to space according to a brief article in Time Magazine, using and further proving the concept of quantum entanglement. The idea of entanglement had e
STLT#295, Sing Out Praises for the Journey
Of course this is the hymn today, as I set out on 14-hour trip home from SUUSI that was called Blessed Is the Path. And in fact, I’m a little surprised no one used this in their worship this week… exc
Hymn by Hymn
Bring your underwear this Sunday!
A lot has surprisingly been said about underwear This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me. Rodney Dangerfield I don’t believe in the afterlife, al
Caring for One Another Fellowship Circles
Wound Up
Do you ever feel as if you are curled in on yourself, protecting what is most fragile inside you by wrapping it tight? What would it feel like to release that tension, to allow your body to stretch ou
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Hiatus
I am deciding to take a break from writing on this blog - perhaps indefinitely. The past six months have seen a number of events in my personal life, at times horrendous yet also somehow affirming. On
Life Snippets
A Meditation on the Magdalene: Apostle to, and Maybe Even of the Apostles
In pretty much all sacramental Christian churches today, the 22nd of July, is marked out as a feast for Mary Magdalene. Me, I find her pretty much endlessly fascinating. She was arguably the closest o
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Bears vs. Babies
Super fun little game with artwork from the Oatmeal. Way more interesting than Exploding Kittens. The NSFW expansion loves dildos. Fun mechanic, although after three games we wanted to play somethin
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Women show more gender bias than men in Implicit Association Tests
There Are Problems With the Gender-Bias IAT, Too -- Science of Us: There Are Problems With the Gender-Bias IAT, Too -- Science of Us: "As Greg Mitchell and Phil Tetlock put it in a book chapter that i
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Column: Pagans Join the ‘Ain’t I A Woman’ March
I joined with several hundred people to celebrate Black women at the “Ain’t I A Woman” march in Sacramento, California on July 15, 2017. Several hundred Black women and supporters marched at 9:00 AM i
Paganism Perspectives Ain't I A Woman Black Feminist Movement Black witches Black Women United Sojourner Truth
Interdependent Web: When you can’t call for help, getting through this, the stick on your shoulder
Heather Christensen A weekly roundup of blogs and other user-generated web content about Unitarian Universalism.
39 of 99 Weight Loss Smoothies: Cranberry Strawberry Blast
Cranberry Strawberry Blast Recipe1 Cup Cranberries1 Lemon1 cup Strawberries3 cups spinach1/2 teaspoon cinnamon1 scoop protein powder1 teaspoon matcha green tea1.5 cup almond milk 316 calories, 52 gram
Women’s March Six Months Later—La Lucha Continua in Woodstock
Exactly six months ago today millions of women—and more than a few supportive men this geezer included—marched on Washington and in cities, towns, and villages across the United States and around the
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Dissent: For Such a Time as This
(This post is a continuation of yesterday’s theme of “Dissent.”) When considering the ongoing struggle in this country to genuinely achieve peace, liberty, and justice for all (not merely for some), i
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A Small Step for (a) Man
It was on this day, the 21st of July, in 1969, at 2:56 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) the American astronaut Neil Armstrong put his foot on the surface of the moon. And with that he became the first
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studio stroll...
Each Thursday afternoon classes at ESSA things slow down just a bit at the end of the day for "Studio Stroll" to which members of the community are invited to drink wine, eat snacks and see what stud