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Recommended reading.

“Do you want a gentle eunuch, tamed and kept by the church gentry? Do you want to pull my chain and watch the pretty Jesus words come out?”

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Buddhist neurology.

“These are the Olympic athletes, the gold medalists, of meditation.”

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Theology

Theology for humanists.

“Humanism needs what religion gives: a passion for purpose, a concern to embody the good, and the sense of an all-embracing universal oneness that encompasses all existence.”

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Emerson watch.

Richard Higgins, who wrote about the legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson for Unitarian Universalists in UU World earlier this year, expands on Emerson’s theology in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin. It’s a very fine essay.

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Guugle.

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General interest.

Gen. Wesley Clark may announce his candidacy for the presidency as early as tomorrow.

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African Anglican diversity.

“We have also got to respect the integrity of our provinces as autonomous entities whether we agree with them or not, or whether they make us uncomfortable or not.”

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American idle.

“American Idol” Ruben Studdard tried to rouse Alabama’s black voters to Riley’s cause in a concert for 10,000 people on Friday, but didn’t bother to stump for the tax reform measure itself.

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Twin towers.

One of the best magazine covers I’ve seen in a very long time.

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Beam in the eye.

Why have the media paid so little attention to Gov. Riley’s crusade to reform Alabama’s regressive tax code?