Happy New Year, everyone! Persian new year, that is–Nowruz, which begins today, on the spring equinox.
The opening lines of Mary Oliver’s poem “Wild Geese” are calling to me today: You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only … Read More…
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 … Read More…
With a nod to Andrew Sullivan: … Read More…
“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? … Read More…
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 … Read More…
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 … Read More…