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But we must be wary of thinking that more suffering enables more healing, that in...

Product advertising has been with us since some Paleolithic guy boasted that his flint arrowheads...

The fault, dear Americans, is not in our guns, but in ourselves, that we are...

I was nine years old, give or take a year or two, and I was...

Even the tools to fix the broken things were broken. But if you write about...

Every spread of the cards is a funhouse mirror, reflecting what comes before it, distorting...

Fractal Cat is a Baltimore band that I've been fortunate enough to watch come together...

"Religious humor is a form of 'deep play' that works to renegotiate ideas about tradition,...

Change is going to happen. That's pretty much an inevitable part of existence. But if...

Here in the dark of the year even the weather invites us, demands of us,...

As some try to impose order on the inherently chaotic world of sex, romance, and...

If reportage like this seems to normalize race hatred, perhaps that should be a reminder...

One of the Three Treasures of Buddhism is the sangha, the community of seekers. Budo...

Then I started dancing. And it became a ritual, the unloading of a million pounds...

It's been a while since we've had a Random Wednesday post. But it's Pagan New...

My father's death puts me in a different relationship with my ancestors, and I will...

Dear Mr. Manilow, The last thing my father did in his life was take my...

We have hopes about an afterlife. I guess some of us have fears -- Dad...

If we love a dog, the odds are very good that they will die before...

Somewhere out there among the ordinary people saving lives in Houston is a guy with...

But we have to operate in both the realms of absolute and relative truth. It...

While both are wrong, there is not a moral equivalence here between punching someone and...

The fire circle is an audience participation event. In fact, there is no audience. We're...

You have to get into your opponent's head. So to be a good fighter, you...

Starwood is a magickal adventure construction set. A variety of pieces are provided, but it's...

But we fans of long-running franchises also value internal consistency, a.k.a. continuity. Of course no...

So the Morrigan, that Celtic goddess (or trinity of goddesses) of war and death (but...

A heart that never cares is safe from grieving. But that's not what hearts are...

No disrespect to Dionysus, but social justice is not a job to which you send...

Catching up with posting the pieces from the 52 Make-Up Challenge. This entry and the...