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Spark: an Interesting Discussion of Gender Roles

March 30th, 2009 · by xJane · No Comments

“Gender roles see a ‘conflict’ shift in work-life balance” at USAToday. Hat tip to @unapologeticfem (site) I’m not certain that anything in there is great news, but it does seem that there is some kind of cultural change at work, which is something.

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Tags: Current Events · Feminism · Gender · Goals · Politics · Pop Culture · Spark · Women

LDS Temple Ceremony goes Prime Time.

March 7th, 2009 · by John · 53 Comments

Apparently some aspect of the LDS temple ceremony will be portrayed on HBO’s Big Love (tonight?). Here’s a picture that was forwarded to me, apparently from TV Guide:

Mormons are decrying this as sacrilegious and disrespectful, of course, but as one of thousands who was hoodwinked into going through the ceremony and socially coerced into accepting [...]

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Tags: Blasphemy · Blogging · Getting over Religion · Goals · Mormon · Mormonism · Music · Music Monday · Religion · Ritual · Second Life · Sexuality · Social Hacking · Suggestion Box · Temple · Writing

#Lent09

February 25th, 2009 · by xJane · 5 Comments

I told a professor here (who was running a forum on the Question of God) that my religious background is ex-Catholic but that I am an active blogger in the ex-Mormon part of the Bloggernacle; that my husband is humanist, my father-in-law is Buddhist, and my mother-in-law is First Nations/Pagan. I got an awesome look [...]

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Tags: Atheism · Belief · Charities · Current Events · Getting over Religion · Goals · Personal · Religion · Ritual

Zulu Tattoo

February 2nd, 2009 · by xJane · 19 Comments

I can’t remember when I first wanted to get a tattoo, but it was sometime in high school. I wanted a yin yang on my ankle. In college, I finally got it, but at the last moment, I changed its placement to my lower back. It was amazing. It was transcendent. It was painful. It [...]

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Tags: Goals · Meditation & Prayer · Mysticism · Personal · Ritual

Blog for Choice 2009: My Top Pro-Choice Hopes

January 22nd, 2009 · by xJane · 6 Comments

It’s Blog for Choice Day and I encourage everyone to visit the blogroll of bloggers taking part and to visit their blogs, if only for this one post. Also, feel free to revisit my posts from ‘07 and ‘08. This year’s topic is “What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new [...]

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Tags: Activism · Belief · Blogging · Church and State · Current Events · Dialog · Education · Ethics · Feminism · Gay Rights and Queer Issues · Gender · Goals · Humanity · Justice · Law · Politics · Reason · Religion · Science · Sexuality · Society · Web 2.0 · Women

Unexplained Absence

December 21st, 2008 · by xJane · 4 Comments

I had to log into Wordpress a few days ago so I could comment. This impresses upon me exactly how long I’ve been radio-silent. A week before finals, we had a Let Us Tell You How Unprepared You Are for Finals Assembly in which we were told to apologize now to our friends and family [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Career · Creativity. · Education · Goals · Law · Personal · Web 2.0 · Writing

I hold this truth to be self evident: it is time for Barack Obama to become president

October 11th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

an awesome vid & song:

Politicians that can give me hope.
Music that can give me hope.
Maybe this country is going somewhere good.

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Tags: Activism · Art · Belief · Creativity. · Current Events · Dialog · Environment · Goals · Media and Design · Music · Peace; conflict resolution. · Politics · Pop Culture · Race · Religion · Video · Web 2.0

the Pulpit Initiative—or, should churches maintain their tax exempt status?

September 29th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments

So Freedom Sunday has come and gone. I didn’t hear anything on the news this morning about whether or not major changes are in the works, but I’d like to hear from the MoF crowd about this. Should churches be tax exempt or free to use their spiritual influence to exert political influence (and pay [...]

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Tags: Activism · Atheism · Charities · Christianity · Church and State · Current Events · Dialog · Getting over Religion · Goals · Gods · Law · Musings · News · Reason · Religion · Society · Sunday Sermon

Microfinance: Food for Thought

September 18th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

Microfinance is the lending and borrowing of (relatively) small amounts of money. Generally, the lender is a (relatively) rich Westerner and the borrower a poor citizen of a developing country. And I don’t mean relatively poor; I mean abject poverty, where $25 to buy a goat means the difference between being able to feed your [...]

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Tags: Activism · Charities · Consumerism · Ethics · Feminism · Gender · Goals · Humanity · Links · Musings · Suggestion Box

What is the Law?

August 26th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment

I just started Law School (yesterday!) and one of the major focuses of the first classes in each course was this question. We were asked to define the law in our own words. What is the purpose of law? This question received answers like “civilizing of society”, “justice” (which was further defined as incorporating concepts [...]

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