peripheralsight was poking gentle fun at me the other day for not knowing about growing seasons for fruit. It's true, I don't really have a strong childhood sense of what's good when, beyond that the peach tree Mom planted when I was born used to bloom in the spring, the local children's hospital had an apple sale every fall, and Dad's oranges are falling off the ( Read more... )

Tonight we were visited by Mormons! Three young gentlemen from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints came a-dinging at our doorbell, wearing their ties and scarves and smiling. And thus, there I was, leaning on the door frame, wondering how I should respond ( Read more... )

Honestly, I don't know why every scripture-thumping, holy-rolling, fundamentalist defender of whatever-faith-you-want out there isn't jumping up and down, championing the separation of church and state, for this simple reason: it keeps the state out of the churchOkay, so I don't really credit most of those folk for being burdened with an ( Read more... )

Some of you may remember my groans of suffering a few semesters back when I TA'd for a particularly scatterbrained and self-centered professor. Well, I just got an email from him, sent out to the religion department's mailing list:Subject: RELIGIOUS IGNORANCE IN U.S.

A Pretty Ignorant Lot!

[Professor's nickname]
[lengthy signature]

...And that's ( Read more... )

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Teaser Trailer #1: The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour from Daniel Kremer on Vimeo.

That white guy with the greying beard? My Foundations of Indian Buddhism professor.

1. You should be reading the latest Shousetsu Bang*Bang issue, of course. I'm planning on making a navel-gazing post about my own story, how its reception differs from my intent, and the general cockfacedness of people who make 'recs' that are just excuses to show off how smart they are by trashing someone else's story in public, but that will have ( Read more... )

A gay Christian wanted to test Jesus, so she asked, "Teacher, what do I have to do to live forever?" Jesus said, "What do you think?" She said, "Love God with all that you are and with all that you've got, and love your neighbor as much as you love yourself." Jesus answered, "That's right! Do this, and you will live ( Read more... )

So I've been reading protestant evangelical sex manuals for school, and I've learned some fascinating things:

• 'Try wearing all-cotton underwear, which gives the vaginal area more opportunity to "air out." Sometimes blow-drying the vaginal area or the use of a heat lamp after baths of showers can help keep the vaginal area dry and free of discharge ( Read more... )

Hark! A comic where I pretend like I'm Kate Beaton! Starring Martin Luther and hunterandhunted.

( TERRIBLE ART )

I hate the 'faith alone vs. faith + good works' argument that pops up when discussing the Reformation, because people on both sides of the debate are so bound and determined to be on different sides of a debate that neither one stops long enough to realize that not only are the sides not mutually exclusive, they're actually quite nearly the same ( Read more... )