What is Reverence for Life?

Swimming with my eight-year-old daughter requires patience. Actually, she’s pretty much a mermaid and can swim circles around anything just shy of a dolphin. But when the sun starts turning your skin oh-so-crispy bacon and your fingertips begin to resemble wrinkly raisins, she’s ready to devote another hour-plus in the pool, not to butterfly […]

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Dec, 01, 2015
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Choosing a President for Alderaan Reasons: Modern Mythmaking & the “Dark Side” of Presidential Politics

Myth matters. Gilgamesh slayed the great beast Humbaba. Persephone was abducted by Hades. Anubis weighs hearts at the threshold of eternity. There is great meaning to be gleaned from each of these mythological still shots, a meaning that does not depend on historical veracity, on whether they actually happened, or happen. Oh, and here’s another […]

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Nov, 13, 2015
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Train up a Child…

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Nov, 10, 2015
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Humanity, Not Quite Ready for Civilization: Reverence for Life in a Washed-Up World

Click to read Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the “Humanity, Not Quite Ready for Civilization” series. Sometimes you have to break a thing down into its simplest parts to understand it afresh. At other times, you have to be broken, or nearly broken, by the Universe to understand a thing. […]