It’s been too long since I’ve posted on the OC Pilgrimage, but I’m committed to starting it up again this year. My goal is a bit more modest but also more manageable: one new religious or spiritual locale and/or event each month. This month Jana, the kiddos, friend Bonny and I visited the Orange County […]

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I’m back from two weeks of guest blogging at feminist Mormon housewives. Here’s a recap:
The Loneliness of the Male Feminist
A Multiplicity of Feminisms
Mormon Men
Imagining Heavenly Mother
I am Man?
For Those Who Struggle with Eating Disorders and Self Injury
Renegotiating Marriage and Faith (Our Journey)
fMh is one of the most frequented sites in […]

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Who wrote the four canonical Gospels?¬† Easy peasy, you say! (or not)¬† Flip open the table of contents, and the first four books are listed directly under “The New Testament”:¬† Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.¬† End of discussion.¬† Short post.
According to tradition, the Apostle Matthew (the former tax collector) wrote the first Gospel; Mark (scroll […]

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today’s comic defines what I felt this morning as I dashed from cold apartment through frigid (I could see by breath!) courtyard down to cold laundry room-cum-garage. We must be setting records with this winter.
but today’s resistance (UPDATE: link changed to permalink; first resistance of the year) is priceless and relates to a subject close […]

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or, What’s in Your Wallet iPod?!
Someone once said that you can tell a lot about a person from what is on their iPod (and then went on to describe what they believe to be on the iPods of certain important figures). I think this was more true when iPods were smaller. You can tell more […]

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Accelerando by Charles Stross
Science Fiction is a literature of ideas, and Accelerando is a dozen Science Fiction books in one.¬† From the first few pages Stross bombards his readers with a barrage of ideas–he puts novel back in the novel. This book is dense like star stuff with scientific extrapolation. From self-replicating […]

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When I was a kid and until I got a “real” job, my life was ruled by the school season. My year started the first day of school and ended on the first day of summer. I lived in a place where school started in the autumn, so there were always plenty of leaves. My […]

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Andrew Sullivan often speaks my mind, except he does it with eloquence, conciseness, and good pay. Here are the highlights of his mini-analysis of Bush’s escalation speech:

Bush is committing more troops based on the idea that we are defending a democratic government from its terrorist attackers.
What he will actually do is deposit tens of […]

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I’d like to propose a different approach to the discussion of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus (this came up in a conversation with Elise and John White last night–thanks y’all!). There are seven chapters (nine if you include the intro and conclusion). I suggest that we divvy these up between anyone willing to blog […]

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This is a slightly edited repost of something I wrote for feminist Mormon housewives. Miko’s latest post brought up both Islamic feminism and the complications of being a privileged Western feminist. This may provide some welcome background:
There are dozens of major varieties of feminism. There are those that are politically-based: Marxist, liberal, and […]

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