Sometimes I find spiritual experiences when I’m looking for them, but sometimes they sneak up on me and surprise me.¬† This morning I was in my coding ‘zone’ (I call it ‘being in the groove’), seriously sleep deprived (in my personal programming purgatory, indulgences are paid for with lost hours of sleep), and Girl by […]

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When I started mindonfire many internet generations ago, I felt like each post submitted was like a note-stuffed bottle tossed into the dark sea of web-humanity. Incredibly, messages came back–not Sting’s “hundred million bottles,” but a few poignant notes from other castaways and drifters on the same great spiritual ocean.
Many of my […]

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…cruelly hidden from you in the end of a fatigue-addled YouTube ramble:

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In the comments on my earlier post, Calling All Spiritual Progressives, Miko included a link to this article in the Christian Science Monitor that highlights the American public’s growing wariness (and weariness) with religious and anti-religious extremes in U.S. politics. It is worth reading.
Encouraged by Miko’s comment, I re-read that post, and was reminded […]

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This month, I’d like to experiment with a reading group. It will have two main components:

Weekly posts on interesting points brought up by the book and a concluding, in-depth review. The weekly posts would give any of you reading the book to be involved in a dialogue about the book. I hope that […]

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This is a screencapture from this Google video of washed-up SF writer Harlan Ellison placing his hand on Connie Willis’ left breast during this year’s Hugo awards ceremony. I’m glad that there’s been quite an uproar in the SF blog world. I refrained from chiming in because a) this isn’t really an SF […]

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Our first YouTube video:

In which Jana spirits John away on a pirate adventure (with Paris right next door). Good times are had. They are joined by rats, doves and mangy stray cats. John learns that he has a double chin.
Questions remain, however: where exactly did they go? What lies behind the stone […]

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Fourteen freakin’ years! We’re closer to our silver wedding anniversary than away from it.
In a few minutes, Jana will whisk us away to parts unknown–unknown to me, at least. Stay tuned for *breaking details.
*The news breaks when the Internets are accessible, not necessarily when it happens.

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Crazy, crazy week. Classes started up, so I’m commuting to Long Beach once again for evening graduate seminars (I’m taking a semester-long deep dive into feminist approaches to the study of religion, which is my idea of good time. Seriously!). I just learned that I going to go from managing one other […]

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