My conservative friend included me in an email referencing this blog entry about this academic paper examining five Protestant pastors who now identify as non-believersMy comments to my friend ( Read more... )

An oldie but a goodie:

Say "words!" in the comments and I'll respond with 5 words that I associate with you. Write something about them in your LJ.

thomryng chose the five qualities which I have referred to from time to time as my "ethical liferaft." I constructed it after my existential crisis (during my sophomore year of college) left me in a state ( Read more... )

Initiations -- both the planned and the unexpected -- have been an interest of mine for many years. Every so often I'll make lists of major transition points in my life, looking at which are simply that -- transitions -- and which qualify as initiations ( Read more... )

"Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, Taoists, Zen Buddhists, Tantric meditators, and mystics everywhere do not think of the Dreaming world as an 'un'-conscious. For these peoples, the sentient Dreaming world is the basic reality. Though marginalized and invisible to mainstream cultures today, Dreamtime has been the essential reality for ( Read more... )

Wolfling was sick all last week ( Read more... )

I went to the networking event and had a good time, although I did elect to leave "early". I had allowed two hours for the event, and had rescheduled another appointment for later this afternoon. When the tour took longer than I anticipated, I bowed out of the drumming/affirmation circle and potluck as gracefully as I could. I took a few minutes to ( Read more... )

I'm having a lousy day today: deeper depression than I've experienced for quite some time. Intellectually I know it's let-down from the move and the job ending, combined with PMS, but that isn't making me feel any better. Instead, I feel an irrational degree of unworthiness and other types of low self-esteem -- not usual for me even during ( Read more... )

I'd say this was in honor of Easter, but I actually ended up finding these during a chat with _storyteller_ last night. . .

Matthew Fox, whose book Original Blessing outlines the fundamentals of "Creation Spirituality," posted his own "95 Theses" a few years ago. Storyteller and I were discussing theology, and I was looking up something good from Fox as a ( Read more... )

Wolfling and I had a wonderful time at the Earth Sanctuary yesterday. The weather was perfect, and the site was as powerful as ever ( Read more... )

My weekend, which started out not-so-great on Friday evening, got better, but overall was decidedly odd, even for me ( Read more... )