Story, History, and Meaning
May 11, 2012 | In the episode of Faith, Fern and Compass we posted this week, Alison and I talked a bit about stories, and what their purpose might be. Is storytelling something with evolutionary origins? If so, wha [...] Read more

On the Meaning of Life
May 2, 2012 | “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.” – Marc Chagall “The meaning of life is that it [...] Read more

Sodden Spring
March 30, 2012 | Seattle, they say, is a rather wet city. But the last few days were sunny and warm, so I guess I was lulled into thinking (wishing? hoping?) that perhaps the worst of the showers were over. Late yeste [...] Read more

Druidic Arts: Deep Contemplation
May 17, 2012 | It is easy to go through life assuming we know what we’ve got, and wearing blinkers and earplugs as an accidental consequence. Thinking is an art form. Challenging all that might be taken for grante [...] Read more

Druidic Arts: Relationship
May 16, 2012 | Following on from yesterday’s blog discussing the idea of Druidic life-arts, I’m going to pick over the 9 arts in more detail. The beginning of relationship as art, is simply recognition. We can s [...] Read more

Nine Druidic Arts
May 15, 2012 | I must start by saying that these are ideas I am working up myself, they are notions in progress, and I am just gathering the basic ideas and casting them forth to see what anyone thinks. There is not [...] Read more

A Note for Spring
February 26, 2012 | Oh, I remember you. Spring. The wind – great and brassy, sweeping the sky and the earth like a broom made of light. The birds, becoming nothing so much as hearts with wings, so full they become [...] Read more

On Multiple Religious Belonging
February 8, 2012 | I’ve admitted this before, but I’m going to say it again: long-distance driving is possibly one of my favorite things in the universe. I don’t have a lot of whys and wherefores to ex [...] Read more

Then Again, Silence
December 15, 2011 | (I think I said something about taking a big break from blogging again. Well. I’ll tell you what – what I have decided is to take a major break from making any kind of declarations about b [...] Read more

Episode 105 - Animal Kin
May 16, 2012 | In Episode 105 - Animal Kin, we discover that animals are people, too, and some of them share a lot more in common with humans than you might think! We take a look at how biologists are reexamining th [...] Read more

MU News Bureau | MU News Bureau
April 23, 2012 | Scientists have speculated that the human brain features a “God spot,” one distinct area of the brain responsible for spirituality. Now, University of Missouri researchers have completed research [...] Read more

A Woman’s Place is at the Altar | Swervecalgary.com – Calgary event listings, contests, restaurants, entertainment listings, what to do in Calgary, the insider's guide to Calgary
April 14, 2012 | Monica Kilburn Smith is the only female priest in Calgary, one of eight such priests (and one female bishop) in Canada and one of more than 100 in North America and Europe who are part of the Roman Ca [...] Read more

The feeding of trolls « Druid Life
April 6, 2012 | They live in the quiet places of the internet, lurking under conceptual bridges, and in shadowy corners. If you look at them, they will appear to have a human face, and a name, but this may have been [...] Read more

Episode 103 - Your Brain on Faith
May 9, 2012 | In Episode 103 - Your Brain on Faith, we use our little gray cells to explore the connections between the brain, the body and the blessings of tranquility and creativity to be found in the natural wor [...] Read more

A glorious–and scary–spring | this lively earth
May 5, 2012 | This is spring on steroids—global-warming steroids. Most of us don’t know what to do with it. Our instinct is to enjoy the sunshine, the balmy temperatures. All this unseasonable warmth felt wond [...] Read more

Priscilla Stuckey: A revolutionary law—for people and nature » TckTckTck | the Global Campaign for Climate Action
April 24, 2012 | My friend in the next county lives near a gas well. It’s a fracking well, where millions of gallons of toxic liquid are pumped a mile underground under high pressure to crack shale and extract metha [...] Read more

The Hand That Covers The Eye
April 13, 2012 | Complacency and non-action is veritably encouraged by the author of the blog post, in his statement that we should “think beyond big changes”. There is no polite way for me to say what I’m about [...] Read more

No News is Bad News for Nonprofit Journalism
May 3, 2012 | America is unique among democratic nations in its nearly complete reliance on commercial media to inform our communities, educate our children, and hold power to account. The media system we have is n [...] Read more

The Green Wolf - My disillusionment with social justice
April 18, 2012 | I’ve put a lot of work into undoing some of the worst societal conditioning I’ve been burdened with. I’ve tried really damned hard to check my privileges, to soul-search, and to really examine t [...] Read more

The White Savior Industrial Complex - Teju Cole - International - The Atlantic
March 25, 2012 | People of color, women, and gays -- who now have greater access to the centers of influence that ever before -- are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an ex [...] Read more

Soraya Chemaly: 10 Reasons the Rest of the World Thinks the U.S. Is Nuts
March 19, 2012 | This week the Georgia State legislature debated a bill in the House, that would make it necessary for a woman to carry a stillborn baby until she 'naturally' goes into labor just as, accordi [...] Read more