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2016-03-25T16:46:39-04:00

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another look at what the pope really said – and a reminder on where to keep our focus

Last updated on: March 25, 2016 at 4:46 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

If you have been attending to the discussion over whether or not Pope Francis, in another memorable plane interview, made allowances for the use of contraception for women infected with the Zika virus, I hope you have taken the time to check out what he actually did say, at least in this unofficial English translation. You might also want to check out, if you haven’t already, Pia de Solenni’s post on the topic, and Melinda Selmys’ insightful analysis here at Patheos. Here’s... Read more

2016-03-27T20:37:06-04:00

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Umberto Eco, gnosis, and nihilism

Last updated on: March 27, 2016 at 8:37 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Umberto Eco, philosopher and story-teller, died yesterday at the age of 84, leaving me to chastise myself for doing exactly what I derided in yesterday’s post : mourning the death of a person because of the loss of production, in this case the production of works that rock my epistemological world. I guess my best tribute to him, then, will be to find how the world rocks on my own. Or, perhaps, to find how it doesn’t. When I was... Read more

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2016-02-19T14:04:30-04:00

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to begin with, let’s talk about death

Last updated on: February 19, 2016 at 2:04 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

As an organic farmer, I am keenly aware of the how bodily death is implicated in the eco-system, and therefore in our bodily relationship with the millions of other organisms thriving and surviving and perishing constantly around us, those with whom we consciously interact and those of which we are unaware. A plant requires a living soil – teeming with microbes – in order to grow, and yet a living soil requires death and decay. Composting is a condition for... Read more

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