Pagan Community Notes: Week of September 27, 2021
In this week's Pagan Community Notes, Fort Bragg Open Circle celebrates 20 years, a Norsependant find, Banned Book Week and more news. Continue reading Pagan Community Notes: Week of September 27, 202
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The Taliban, Texas Abortion Laws, and Shariah Ignorance
By Sumbul Ali-Karamali | In this age of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion movements, twenty years after the tragedy of 9/11, why is it still acceptable to denigrate Muslims and what they believe without
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All Souls Stands for Reproductive Justice
Women and all genders will march in defense of reproductive rights on Saturday, October 2 at 10 am, at the Federal Building to Guthrie Green— and All Souls plans to be there. Join us Wednesday, Septem
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MAGIC LANDS: Zen, Makyo, and the Loosening of the Bonds of Perception
MAGIC LANDSZen, Makyo, and the Loosening of the Bonds of Perception James Ishmael Ford As we embark on the spiritual path what we may have spent a lifetime thinking was real and concrete, rather
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The Train Wreck That Inspired Country Music’s First Hit
The wreck of the Fast Mail not only inspired the song, but this dramatic painting by regionalist master Thomas Hart Benton. There seems to be something about a train wreck that inspires a song. Just
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Lamps
The simple lamp in the corner casts a warm glow around the room. It makes possible reading, or sewing, or a game of cards. How are you using your light to make things possible for others? The Daily Co
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Brazil high court suspends Indigenous land rights case
Indigenous people in Brazil are challenging a court ruling that their constitutional claim to their traditional lands only applies to lands they have inhabited since 1988, but the case has been indefi
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A Blessing for Month 19
When loveFeels like the trenchesAnd the only way outIs through hell –And you have seen enough of hell,Thank-you-VERY-much –And giving upIs the onlyLessDesirable option – Breathe. Be heldBy whatever-th
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The Transient and the Permanent
as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, September 26, 2021 It is good to be back in the pulpit. I have missed you. I have not been gone from First Houston these past weeks.
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Enter the Wild with Care, My Love
Rev. Janet Newton is the senior minister at the First Parish Church of Berlin in Berlin, Massachusetts. Janet was born and raised Unitarian Universalist in the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos, NM. She
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Good as new
Yesterday I mentioned repairing a mirror that had fallen and come apart at the joints. This is what it looks like now with the joints re-glued. The outer frame is cherry and the inner frame walnut, i
Weekly Bread #139
Even when you have climbed to the top of a mountain – and we did an 8 and a half miler this week to the top of Mount Tamalpais, you still don’t know what you will be able to see from the top or what i
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Intrigue and Betrayal in Saigon—The Surprising First American Death in Vietnam
OSS Lt. Col Peter Dewey as a captain. The dashing and well connected young officer accidently became the first American casualty in Vietnam. Lt. Col. Albert Dewey cut a dashing figure and had disti
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What It Means To Put Your Gods First
Putting your Gods first doesn’t mean giving Them your whole life – leave that for those who are called to that level of service. Rather, it means doing the things you’re called to do on a consistent b
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T S Eliot and the Religious Quest
(Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on this day, the 26th of September, in 1888. He was an important thinker in my life. Should say is. I wrote a version of this appreciation in 2018. From time to t
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Fall Day
Spirit of life, we are joined today in a moment of gratitude for a perfect fall day — for a last blaze of sunshine in a sapphire sky, before the rain and snow — for gold and crimson leaves, before we
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Conspiracy theories and religion
In the latest podcast at the Religious Studies Project, Carmen Celestini, a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre on Hate, Bias, and Extremism, talks about her research into conspiracy theories. She begin
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Fall 2021 Week 1. Recreating the Performing Arts: Transcending the Pandemic
23rd September 2021: Martha Nielsen lead a panel discussion with Patrick Aiken, Organist and Choir Director, Central Congregational Church, Providence, RI Josh Short, Artistic Director, The Wilbury
Column: Watching the Tomatoes Grow
Guest contributor Jacqueline Mathers writes about her gratitude for, in the midst of the pandemic's disruptions, finally being able to plant tomatoes. Continue reading Column: Watching the Tomatoes Gr
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a surprise inside
Yesterday a friend returned a mirror I'd made in 1978 for repair. The line from which it was suspended had broken. The mirror fell onto a table and then onto the floor, causing three corners of the fr