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February 2014

February 05, 2014
One of the lovelier of many lovely (and a few less than lovely) things about...
February 01, 2014
While it may be pushing the current a bit, today is Imbolc, a festival of...

January 2014

January 31, 2014
    I have a more or less daily practice of looking at Wikipedia's list...
January 30, 2014
England's King Charles the first, a foolish man, and an unworthy leader believing with all...
January 29, 2014
Today in 1845 Edgar Allan Poe's the Raven is published by the New York Evening...
January 28, 2014
I see that Henry VIII, monster and accidental founder of one of the better versions...
January 27, 2014
A MEETING OF THE WATERS A Preliminary Report from the Buddhist and Unitarian Universalist Encounter...
January 26, 2014
SPIRITS IN REBELLION A Brief Meditation on Laelius & Faustus Socinus & the Origins of...
January 25, 2014
It was on this day in 1890 that the remarkable and almost too amazing to...
January 22, 2014
My friend Tom Hawkins is on a pilgrimage to Buddhist India. The other day he...
January 20, 2014
Huddie William Ledbetter was born on this day in 1888 in Mooringsport, Louisiana.
January 19, 2014
LOVE REACHES OUT A Sermon for Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and the Rest of...
January 18, 2014
One of the less pleasant aspects of becoming a public person, for me public person...
January 16, 2014
On one of the various listservs to which I belong someone asked for prayers on...
January 15, 2014
In the Roman calendar today is the feast of Macarius of Egypt. In the Eastern...
January 14, 2014
Turns out in Medieval Europe today was celebrated as the Feast of the Ass. Mostly...
January 13, 2014
George Fox died on this day in 1691. The English mystic and preacher is generally...
January 12, 2014
A STRANGE UNIVERSALISM Finding the Spiritual in a Murder Mystery James Ishmael Ford 12 January...
January 11, 2014
When heaven is someplace out there it becomes whatever you want it to be. But,...
January 11, 2014
When Jan and I first moved to New England she decided she wanted to go...
January 10, 2014
This morning, as per usual, I drove Jan from the house up to the train...
January 08, 2014
Today marks out three hundred and seventeen years since the last person was executed for...
January 07, 2014
Saturday evening I passed on denkai transmission to Jay Weik, Rinsen Osho, in a traditional...
January 03, 2014
This video is getting some traction, with over 55,000 views on Facebook It reminds me...
January 02, 2014
ON BEING GOOD A Meditation on Why & How James Ishmael Ford The other day...
January 01, 2014
Dear all, My goodness. 2014. This past year I turned sixty-five. I'm rather surprised at...

December 2013

December 31, 2013
There’s a recent essay making the rounds in my part of the Facebook world, where...
December 31, 2013
I just learned recently retired San Francisco Zen Center abbot Steve Myogen Stucky died about...
December 30, 2013
In the Episcopal Church's Liturgical calendar today is the feast of the remarkable Frances Joseph-Gaudet....
December 28, 2013
Roebuck "Pops" Staples would have been ninety-nine years old today.
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