Have a little girl shout through a megaphone on a downtown street corner telling people to repent and come to Jesus.
Just go the fuck away, will you? I’m trying to work here.
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If I could choose a day to live again,
it would be any random afternoon when,
coming home from school,
I’d find you in your upstairs room,
the cat and dog gone fast asleep
and lying in the sun,
and you would let your work lie fallow
in your lap and tell me tales
of ancient kings, of artistry,
of long-forgotten trinities that flourished [...]

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Parents pick prayer over docs; girl dies
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Barry and I are NOT an interfaith marriage. We’re both atheists. That said, I grew up a church-going, sacrament-receiving, parochial-school education Catholic. He’s Jewish and hasn’t been to temple since his bar mitzvah.
Barry’s tolerant of the tree and the stockings and my manic cookie-baking marathons. I’m always willing to enjoy a plate of latkes.
But I [...]

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An article in the October issue of Scientific American reports on the neurology of mystical experiences.
I’ve been meditating in one for or another for around 30 years. I started originally for stress reduction in an attempt to short-circuit migraines. My intention was never spiritual, but in the process I’ve experienced what many consider spiritual experiences.
I’ve [...]

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A curious article in the NY Times caught my eye today. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has come up with an “approved list” of religious readings for chapel libraries. Although the list includes a wide range of dogma and doctrines, it is nonetheless eliciting condemnation on both the right and left, and is the subject [...]

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The Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off.
Scientists monitoring events this summer say the acceleration could be catastrophic in terms of sea-level rise and make predictions this February by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change far too low…
…Yesterday Christian, [...]

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