Category Archives: spirituality

Paradigms, idols, and the mind in matter

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Following Karen Armstrong’s remarks on idols, I’ve been thinking about idolatry in relation to our view of nature. We are wedded to the view that nature lacks mind–to the extent that alternatives to this view, from pantheism to animism, are … Continue reading →

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What the world needs now

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

“I want people to hear the compassionate voice of religion,” says religion scholar Karen Armstrong. What, you say, religion and compassion in the same sentence?

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Write your heart out

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

So over the past two days, as I wrote blog posts that comparatively few people (yet) will read, I discovered that after writing them, I felt happy. Now there’s the happiness of “just having written,” which DailyKos attributed to Robert … Continue reading →

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Earth is the new bottom line

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Yesterday I wrote about air money, and I explained that one reason companies can look more profitable than they are is because our standard accounting practices don’t require them to mention that, oh, by the way, they just destroyed a … Continue reading →

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10 reasons to shlep your laundry outdoors to dry

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Okay, it may not be spring yet, but here in Boulder we’ve been having a two-week warm streak. Yesterday, in 70 degrees, I hung laundry on the line strung across our second-floor deck while house finches trilled in the pines … Continue reading →

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