My fandoms are my haven, my safety-valve, my escape-route, my way of articulating and exploring things that are important to me.

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...writing in the New Statesman that he'd changed his mind about Christianity ( A few thoughts on the relationship between religion, mythology and fanfiction... )

Julian writes to the Jewish community.
What a difference to the history of Europe and the Middle East could have been made…

His view of their religion was:they revere a god who is truly most powerful and most good and governs this world of sense, and, as I well know, is worshipped by us also under other names. They act as is right and seemly, in ( Read more... )

Well, Leicester made a pretty decent job of it, despite not being York.
I liked the poem by Carol Ann Duffy - a lovely piece of writing ( Read more... )

A sensible story on the religious news front:
"We see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation of the forces of nature and human psychology."
Unlike some, which insist on making implausible real-world historical truth-claims…

Online Amnesty Petition for Raif Badawi. WTF are they doing in Whitehall and Westminster, lowering flags to half-mast for the kind of people who can do this to another human being?

This is utterly unacceptable. Stuff their oil and money.

Editorial.

Some covers: people died for these.