I’ve been tagged by my dear friend Grateful Bear for the “Random 8″ blog meme.
Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
Players should tag 8 other people and notify them that they have been tagged.
So here are 8 random facts about me, VirusHead, [...]
Slavoj Žižek makes a very interesting defense of atheism in the editorial “Defenders of the Faith” (New York Times, 3/12/06). Certainly atheism deserves the restoration of the inherent dignity of its position. But his overall argument, at least in the context of our current realities, is flawed. It could be a readerly effect, since the [...]
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
– Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King is dead.
A woman of grace and strength and courage and dignity is gone.
Equality. Human Rights. Non-violence. Peace.
She worked hard to keep these ideas out front and center [...]
I first read the theologian-priest Matthew Fox as a graduate student in philosophical theology and ethics at the University of Iowa. He is perhaps one of the most controversial religious figures of our time. He’s a bit wacky in some ways (see techno-cosmic mass) but I tend to agree with much of what he [...]
Enjoying Music
