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It has been an incredibly long time since I've written on this blog, or any of my blogs, and of all things I'm coming out of my hidey hole to write about Miley Cyrus.  It's been written to death, but I've spent a lot of time thinking about this performance and really what I feel that people are missing as they criticize her 2013 VMA appearance.

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The last two days have been embroiled in the gay marriage debate both in the Supreme Court, on every news media outlet, and also across Facebook.  But I want to take a moment to talk about something that's been bubbling up across my friends list that I want to address ( Read more... )

Every man and every woman is a star.
-- Liber AL vel Legis, Ch. 1, Line 3This has been at the forefront of my mind of late.  And it's terribly late and I am just going to slapdash this together.  It is at this time an incoherent thought that is moving me, and I have spent the last two days plotting the diagrams you are about to look at ( Read more... )

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Early last year the OHF Book Club that I moderate read "God Is Not One" by Stephen Prothero.  It's an analysis of several world religions, and it begins with an interesting conceit.  Prothero is opposed to the Perennial Philosophy, which posits that all religions are one, or that they flow from the same source.  His position is that this kind of ( Read more... )

I've spent the last few days combing through Michael York's book "Pagan Theology."  York is firmly of the opinion that we can construct a coherent superstructure to look at Paganism, if not as a religion, but as a "religiosity."  This is the same position that Jonathan Korman attempted to define in his post on The Pagan Sensibility.  Though York's ( Read more... )

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Being back in Cincinnati is weird and comforting at the same time.  In many respects nothing has changed.  There's still a fountain in fountain square. There's still a slew of restaurants and coffee shops and German sounding antiques dealers downtown.  But being so distant from my family means that I'm missing all of these major life changes going ( Read more... )