Sagittarius Horoscope for week of December 4, 2014
With both symbolic and practical actions, Sagittarius-born Pope Francis has tried to reframe the message of the Catholic Church. He's having public showers installed for the homeless in Vatican City. He has made moves to dismantle the Church's bigotry toward gays. He regularly criticizes growing ( Read more... )

I still dream of my mother just about every night. I guess she still weighs heavily on my subconscious mind ( Read more... )

Today my sister and Mom & Dad's pastor met to settle the date and time for Mom's celebration of life service. It will be May 12th at the church ( Read more... )

COVENTRYOriginal premise: Based on the Heinlein "Future History" novellas. In 2012, a radical social ultraconservative man name of Nehmiah Scudder gets elected to the Presidency of the United States. He then suspends the Constitution, enacts the New Crusade to nationalize the Protestant and Evangelist Churches, and begins the totalitarian ( Read more... )

There are churches all around that have big, involved, probably expensive playground equipment installations in their yards--and you never EVER see any kids playing on them.

I think this is evidence of a fatal flaw in American Christian culture.

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of April 9, 2009At a Buddhist sanctuary in Khun Han, Thailand, monks have used a million beer bottles and soft drink bottles to build their temple. Bottle caps have come in handy, too, serving as the raw material for numerous mosaics portraying the Buddha. Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to draw inspiration from ( Read more... )

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of July 31, 2008

I don't recommend that you go on a spiritual retreat at the Zen monastery near Mount Kumgang in North Korea. As exquisite as the place is, the repressive government's secret police are suspicious of tourists and would probably make your trip miserable. Likewise, don't take a vacation on the gorgeous ( Read more... )

Just after dinnertime, we got an automated phone call--a recorded tirade from some fire-and-brimstone evangelist Christian pastor. The actual content of the message isn't worth repeating and he delivered it with so much anger and bile he could have melted down the phone's earpiece ( Read more... )