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November 2008

November 05, 2008

Celebration

This is truly an historic occasion – the election of our first African-American President (our...

November 03, 2008

Holiday Weekend

I've never paid much attention to people who want to take off work for religious...

October 2008

October 31, 2008

Have a Happy Halloween and a Blessed Samhain!

October 28, 2008

What will you do once you know?

images from the Robin Wood TarotLast Saturday I went to the RE Halloween Party and...

October 23, 2008

Uncharted Territory

Here comes another bit of personal introspection that I feel the need to share. Please...

October 16, 2008

Samhain, the Veil and the Five Whys

One of the main tools of Japanese manufacturing is called “Five Whys.” If you have...

October 13, 2008

Samhain Circle, Saturday November 1

I hope those of you in the area will do your best to be there...

October 10, 2008

Divine Retribution? Maybe So…

We'll return to the regularly scheduled Samhain series shortly, but I want to repost a...

October 05, 2008

Halloween

It’s October and Halloween will be here before you know it. Yes, I’m busy getting...

September 2008

September 26, 2008

So What’s a Pagan Priest?

Those of you who were part of my Second Dedication last year know that one...

September 23, 2008

A Pagan View of Suffering

Today’s question for the “Texas Faith” panel of the Dallas Morning News’ Religion Blog is...

September 17, 2008

The Will of the Goddess

In a comment a couple weeks ago, Summer advised me to “give yourself over to...

September 12, 2008

The Gods Must Be Angry

I’m sitting here watching Hurricane Ike get ready to demolish Galveston and there’s a voice...

September 09, 2008

Revising our Principles and Purposes

The UUA is proposing a revision to our Principles and Purposes. At a high level,...

September 02, 2008

This World vs. The Otherworld, part 2

I had no comments on the blog to last week’s piece, but I had several...

August 2008

August 28, 2008

This World vs. The Otherworld

I’m a semi-regular commenter on the Dallas Morning News Religion Blog, and one of the...

August 23, 2008

trudging along

I can’t say I’ve made any great spiritual progress this week, but a leaky roof...

August 18, 2008

physician, heal thyself

I said I didn’t want this blog to turn into a place for personal venting,...

August 11, 2008

Experience, Belief, and Practice

Over the past few years, I’ve done a fair amount of reading on history, anthropology,...

August 05, 2008

the service after

The service at Denton UU was led by Scottie McIntyre Johnson, who's beginning her third...

July 2008

July 31, 2008

a response to the senseless

photo by Angie's Taylor Made MemoriesBy now most everyone is aware of the shooting at...

July 20, 2008

a Baptist, a Methodist, and a Jew

I said this was going to be a religious blog and not a personal blog,...

July 14, 2008

wands

I just completed a new wand as part of my Druid studies through OBOD. I’m...

July 13, 2008

21st century Paganism

Found this story via the DMN Religion Blog, about a Presbyterian theology professor who's been...

July 05, 2008

Arguments for the existence of God

I found this article on Christianity Today via the Dallas Morning News Religion blog. It's...

June 2008

June 30, 2008

how many gods???

While I don’t want to completely build my theology from the ground up on this...

June 29, 2008

In the Beginning

OK, so here I am, a 40-something engineer who finds solving technical and business problems...

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