Insecticides have become more toxic to honeybees
New research published this week shows the drastic increase insecticides pose to bees. Continue reading Insecticides have become more toxic to honeybees at The Wild Hunt.
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The Climate Crisis: A Clergy Call to Action
I'm a member of Clergy Letter Project which has just published a letter on the Climate Crisis. If any readers of this blog are, themselves, members of the clergy (no matter what from what faith tradit
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Interdependent Web: The performance of public life
Heather Christensen A weekly roundup of blogs and other user-generated web content about Unitarian Universalism
Call for Reflection on the Fifth Principle Task Force Report
Commission on Institutional Change We are aware that many congregations have been contacted about reinvigorating our Associational conversation about our democratic process and the fifth principle. Te
Things shared on Jan 24ths: the symbol of the hijab
I don't get the idea that a hijab being mandatory in some places makes it a symbol of oppression everywhere. I'm not oppressed by my pants. Where the hijab is mandatory, it's not a symbol of oppressio
Normalization of evil
As the impeachment trial unfolds in the U.S. senate, M. Scott Peck's book, The people of the lie: The hope for healing human evil keeps coming to mind. The basis of the lie is the denial of truth in s
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Daily Reflections, Day Forty seven, Who and What you are.
Day Forty seven Who and what you are. “The miracle is an expression of an inner awareness of Christ and the acceptance of His Atonement.” ACIM.T-1.1.44:1 This principle makes no sense if you don’t und
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Hypocritical Preacher
Darlings – So here’s a thing… You know the expression, “Physician, heal thyself?” There’s a similar one. “Preacher, hear thyself.” When I wrote to you last week, I felt as though I was at the end of m
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Poetry
“Poetry is more a threshold than a path.” ―Seamus Heaney What door of insight has poetry opened for you? The Daily Compass offers words and images to inspire spiritual reflection and encourage the cre
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I hate the way I draw
That’s all. I just hate my own style, or maybe it’s not that that I hate, but the particular ways I get stuck. My too-familiar ruts. Ugh. I’m spilling this out here because my blog is in part my art j
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New twist in the proposed Stonehenge Tunnel project
TWH revisits the Stonehenge Tunnel project as new calls to halt the proposed route are voiced, citing potential negative impacts to both the Stonehenge monument as well as the surrounding area. Contin
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Zen Master Juzhi & the Matter of the Finger That Wasn’t There
Zen Master Juzhi & the Matter of the Finger that Wasn’t There James Myoun Ford Whenever the master Jinhua Juzhi was asked about the intimate matter, he simply raised one finger. One day a visitor aske
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What’s Missing from the Social Security Expansion Proposals
By James W. Russell | Democrats, looking forward to possible Congressional and White House victories in 2020, have embraced expanding Social Security after years of defensively fending off privatizati
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Justice for Julius: The Last Defense
Julius Jones' case is riddled with odious racial discrimination. Join CJO for Justice with Julius screening of The Last Defense. The post Justice for Julius: The Last Defense appeared first on BeyondB
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30 Days of Love: Join us as we uplift Movement, our Faith and this Moment!
Throughout 2020, Side with Love commits to celebrating the ways we resist, show up and disrupt injustice. We know this moment invites us to increase our radical resistance, our partnerships, and our d
Ford to Trump—Presidential Mercy
Barack Obama was unusually active with clemency orders and pardons in his last days in office. In 2017 Barack Obama spent the last days of his Presidential term churning out sentence commutations. H
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Cozy
A threshold can as easily be an invitation inside as a call to move out into adventure. One of the most important thresholds we cross is into the place that feels like home. Where do you feel most at
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A Letter to Beginning Polytheists
There are plenty of books, blogs, and websites devoted to Wicca and to every form of witchcraft imaginable. There is less for Druidry but still quite a bit. For polytheism there is much, much less. An
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Things shared on Jan 23rds: punching Nazis, free speech, the authoritarian left
If the Nazi is not a threat, don't punch him. If the Nazi is a threat, don't punch him—kill him. - The authoritarian left hates the libertarian left more than they hate either wing of the right. And t