Hello, friends. Happy Thanksgiving. It has been about three months since I last posted here. In those three months a lot has gone down in my life. Right now I don't know how to begin to get caught up narrating any of it for you. I've been through a lot of change. Been taken this way and that by changes. Reached a point where I need to catch my ( Read more... )

Göbekli Tepe, in southeastern Turkey, is a site now being excavated that bridges the Paleolithic and the Neolithic. Dating back to 11,500 BCE, it is the earliest known candidate for the origins of both agriculture and institutional religion. It contains as many as 20 stone circles composed of sculpted megaliths of 10 to 50 tons each.

Göbek is ( Read more... )

"History, Vision, Legacy" is the theme for this year's Annual Capital Pride Week Interfaith Service. It will be held on Tuesday, June 10th at 7:30 PM in the sanctuary of the Foundry United Methodist Church at 1500 16th Street NW, Washington D.C. 20036 (at P St. NW) That's just across the street from the DC Jewish Community Center ( Read more... )

news from Planet Out
How many more murders like this will it take until they pass the Matthew Shepard Act and sign it into law? And for that matter, what will it take for religions to lose the homophobia? Seriously.Hate-slaying suspect: I did it for God ( Read more... )

This is just a look at current relations without going back over the whole history of my experience with Christianity ( Read more... )

Please read elorie's original post that brought this response from me. By the way, I agree with everything she said. Right on, sista ( Read more... )

The logo for this blogswarm shows a red slash-circle symbol over the statue of Liberty holding up a cross instead of a torch ( Read more... )

If anyone has noticed I've been using a lot of Greek, Arabic, and Italian mixed with English in my journal, well yeah. It all has to do with my Sicilian origin, the three main languages spoken by my ancestors (in historical times, anyway ( Read more... )

(Underground feminist voices are always welcome in the Gynaeceum. Reading this, I found out that nuns cannot openly write about women's bodies, just as active military members cannot openly criticize US policy, both have to publish under pseudonyms.)Sister Mary Eve | A Young Nun Defends "The Vagina Monologues ( Read more... )

لقد صار قلبي قابلاً كل صورة * فمرعى لغزلان ودير لرهبانِ
وبيت لأوثان وكعبة طايف * وألواح تورات ومصحف قرآنِ
أدين بدين الحب أنّا توجهت * ركايبه فالدين ديني وإيماني
My heart has become capable of every form ( Read more... )