I guess it helps to be fit if you’re in the Nepal cabinet. Prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and those politicians physically fit enough will be meeting at the Mount Everest base camp (17,192ft above sea level) “to highlight the threat global warming poses to glaciers.”
Archive for the ‘Gods’ Category
Everest, Eid-al-Adha, African politics, and sparkly vampires
Posted in Culture, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, World on November 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Links: Of Squirrels, Deceit, Terrorists, and Orchids
Posted in Culture, Gods, Health Care, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Science on November 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Heroic Squirrel Saves It’s Baby From Dog.
The Economist on The conceit of deceit: How people make up good reasons for bad behaviour. (Via Neuroanthropology)
Bruce Schneier on How Smart are Islamic Terrorists?
Drima the Sudanese Thinker on Taqwacore – The Birth of Punk Islam.
Susan Russell on Suffragan Q&A Link for the upcoming Episcopal Church suffragan bishop election [...]
It’s NOT About Equal Protection
Posted in Community, Ethics, Family, Gods, Law, Lifestyle, Self, Sex, Siarlys Jenkins, tagged Family, marriage, Media, religion on November 23, 2009 | 9 Comments »
If my state’s legislature ever considered a statute to license same sex couples as marriages, I really wouldn’t stir myself to either advocate for it or to stop it. But, as a disciple of James Madison’s arguments for the federal constitution, I am concerned with the integrity of the courts as guardians of our liberties. The arguments against Ms. Goodridge were as badly reasoned as those submitted to the court on her behalf, perhaps worse, which is one reason the decision fell out as it did. It was not a paragon of sound and rational judicial reasoning, nor of clear principles by which government can be restrained from infringing on the liberties of a free people.
Human Trafficking and Quaker Lobbying
Posted in Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Nation, Politics on November 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Our meeting has a certain monthly rhythm to its activities: meeting for business on one Sunday, introduction to Quakerism on another. The fourth Sunday of the month is for Peace and Social Concerns Committee. Well, actually it’s both for Peace and Social Concerns Committee and for Library Committee. The Library Committee was hard [...]
What’s So Bad About Doing Good?
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Gods, Lifestyle, Self on November 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Or, for that matter, about feeling good? Or even doing good in order to feel good? These questions, of course, are directed at the authors and devotees of “Stuff White People Like.” Admittedly, I’ve only read bits and pieces of SWPL itself, mostly as quoted in other people’s blogs. But SWPL [...]
Pacific Yearly Meeting Queries on Peace
Posted in Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Politics, War on November 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Pacific Yearly Meeting Advices and Queries for the Eleventh Month (Quakerese for November) are on peace. You can see the advices if you follow the link; I will just reproduce the queries here.
Do I live in the virtue of that life and power that takes away the occasion of all wars?
How do I [...]
Was Israel Ever in Egypt? When?
Posted in Gods, Science, Siarlys Jenkins, World on November 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The events of the Exodus were so cataclysmic that they could never have been concealed by the Egyptians. Their state was laid prostrate. Either the account happened, or it did not. The only possible period of Egyptian history to fit the facts is the end of the Middle Kingdom, which was immediately succeeded by the Hyksos conquerors.
Carrie Prejean and Christianity
Posted in Culture, Gods, Lifestyle, Patrick, Public, Sex, Woman, tagged Christianity, Idiots, Obama, Politics, Stupidity, women on November 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
AllahPundit and Ace have been all over this like a fly on Doo doo… (Phew!) Which is not entirely surprising seeing that it is a pretty crappy subject. Bump da bump bump…ching!
I have blogged about this woman before; and now, I am doing it again. Which proves that it is a slow news [...]
Twelve Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Pagans
Posted in Culture, Education, Franklin Evans, Gods, tagged Beliefnet, Gus diZerega, pagan, religion on November 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I commend to all an excellent essay by Gus diZerega, from his blog on Beliefnet: Twelve Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Pagans.
He covers the basics very well. Commentary is welcome here or there.
A description of my Quaker meeting …
Posted in Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Self on November 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
… but not by me. A friend who came to our meeting from Mormonism reposts an account of his written 3.5 years ago, describing our meeting and how liberal Quakerism compares to Mormonism.
Blogwatch, with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on Quaker links
Posted in Gods, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Technology on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Via one of my Quaker Facebook friends, a Dorothy Day documentary: Don’t Call Me a Saint.
Robin M. on Essentials of Quaker Practice?
Obedient to the Light on “Quakers live their principles.” (Friends as a Corrective for Culture, Part 2).
The Friends Committee on National Legislation analyzes the health care reform act that the House just passed. (I [...]
Hell
Posted in Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax on November 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Sometime before I went to Hawaii, Hector asked me to take a look at, and share thoughts on, four posts at his blog. Today I’ll look just at one of them (I’m not sure whether I’ll eventually get to all four, but I may).
“If Thine Eye Offend Thee”: Reflections on this week’s reading, continued. [...]
Quiverfull carnival
Posted in Family, Gods, Lifestyle, Man, Sigaliris, Woman, tagged Christian Right, die patriarchy die, quiverfull, war on women on November 4, 2009 | 9 Comments »
They’re having a blog carnival over at “No Longer Qivering,” a blog started by one of the women profiled in Kathryn Joyce’s book, “Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.” “Qivering” is deliberately spelled without a u, because as Vyckie the blogger says, “there is no ‘you’ in Qivering.” The blog holds many great stories by [...]
Final Plans
Posted in Community, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Self on November 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of my Quaker meeting’s recurrent topics, brought up in Ministry and Oversight every couple of years or so, is a set of final plan documents that are filed with the meeting’s Recorder, to be referenced only if someone dies. We’re now discussing a revision of the document (but if you’ve already filed it, [...]
Links: Moral Murkiness, Destigmatizing Bipolar Disorder, Same-Sex Marriage in Schools, and Black Influence on American Culture
Posted in Community, Culture, Family, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I met Jim Burklo back around the time he had the idea for Urban Ministry of Palo Alto. He was the driving force in organizing the group, pulling together the churches that supplied the board of directors and the volunteers, and for a time was our second Urban Minister. I was on the [...]
halfway through Purgatory
Posted in Arts, Family, Gods, Self, Sigaliris, tagged alzheimer's, books, Dante on October 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m trying to catch up, here, as you all continue to post your energetic and engaging thoughts about the course of the world. My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and all hell has broken loose in my family of origin. That is, the flames that are always just below the surface, though sometimes banked [...]
R. Crumb, Whose Art Unleavened
Posted in Arts, Gods, Man, Mind, Scott Lahti, Sex, Woman, tagged bible, Genesis, Old Testament, R. Crumb, Robert Alter on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the beginning was the begatting: as the Old Testament patriarch of underground comics witnesses Jehovah’s big debut like a dream come true, Robert Alter, leading academic expert on the Old Testament as European literature, assays the yeahs and nays as he picks up the Crumbs left behind by the couple who were done Eden [...]
A Bipolar Post Worth Reading
Posted in Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m still in Hawaii, and don’t have too much time online for blogging, but I want to point you to a post by Sophia, We Bipolars, on bipolar disorder and her spiritual journey. (Sophia, I also promoted your post to Bipolar_Blogs on Twitter.)
How would the actions of an ethical agnostic, atheist, or theist differ?
Posted in Ethics, Gods on October 14, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I’ve come to the reluctant conclusion that I am much more likely to respond to a post than I am to initiate a post. Fortunately, over at the Other Place, there is no shortage of people to respond to in such a fashion that one might risk driving a post off topic.
So, as an experiment, [...]
Quaker Mate Swapping
Posted in Family, Gods, Humor, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Self, Sex on October 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This title is for my old grade school friend Sue, not because she’s either Quaker or inclined to engage in mate swapping, but just for the amusement value of having her see the words in the same sentence. And it also does connect with the post eventually. But I’ll start it out simply [...]
Quote of the Month
Posted in Culture, Family, Gods, Patrick, Politics, Woman, tagged Politics on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As a liberal trying to find her way, I often felt like I was trying on religions again. I didn’t fit in, asked lots of questions and was uneasy about my path. Being lost will do that, only I did not know I was on the wrong path. I channeled that anger at the “system” [...]
Revisiting my old Christians and Divorce Series
Posted in Family, Gods, Law, Lynn Gazis-Sax on October 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Of all the restrictions laid on sexuality by the stricter Christian denominations, condemnation of divorce is perhaps the one with the strongest Biblical justification: at several points in the New Testament, this prohibition (either with or without a narrow exception) is attributed to Jesus himself. At the same time, there are times when staying [...]
Intelligent Evolution
Posted in E. L. Beck, Gods, Nature, Science, tagged creation, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution on October 9, 2009 | 18 Comments »
(Finally, a non-economic, non-political post. Yet, it may stir the hornets’ nest far more vigorously than anything I’ve written to date.)
“By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.” Genesis 2:2
And so the story of the universe’s [...]
Friday Hodge Podge: Dreams, Peace, Quaker Worship, Chapstick Lesbians, and TV Shows
Posted in Culture, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Science, Sex, Woman on October 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dream: I’m in a room filled with Greeks and Turks, and I’m to sing Greek songs and dance. I wear a long dress that I purchased at a Greek festival. But I’m handed a page that has, not lyrics in Greek and music, as I expected, but translations of lyrics in English, and [...]
