I've been reading The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, recently. While I've read portions of several of Joseph Campbell's works, it was generally in the context of research I was doing while I was a student. My eldest son has the DVD set of Bill Moyer's interviews with Campbell, which I've been thinking of watching, and I decided ( Read more... )

Our country has had mixed feelings about the relationship between religion and government for a very long time. This interview on Fresh Air with Steven Waldman of Beliefnet, the author of Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
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I want to wish each and every one of my friends a joyous holiday season, regardless of their beliefs or the specifics of their celebrations, or even whether they celebrate, at all. If it comes to that, I hope that this coming year will be full of good things, happy moments, and many, many causes for celebration ( Read more... )

Being on Facebook is exposing me to even more of all the fun, er, distractions that can be found on the web. For instance, one of my friends there posted a link to this photo article, Friday Watch: All Dogs Go To Heaven . . ., which was in the Silicon Valley WatcherNow, I remain a neutral observer on the issue of what happens to us after death, but ( Read more... )

Following the urban fantasy panel, I attended a reading by Emma Bull coffeeem. She read us a portion of an episode from Shadow Unit and spoke to us afterward about how Shadow Unit came to be.

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I'm gacking the following link, as I found the article very interesting: An Article About Terry Pratchett. Plus, I want to see the movie mentioned within the article.