My review of Mary Midgley’s ‘The Myths We Live By’ and Ursula Goodenough’s ‘The Sacred Depths of Nature.’
Month: October 2003
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A lesson from the opposition.
‘The failure of evangelicals in the 1980’s to meet their goals was in part a failure to collaborate.’
‘Yet always, and always, there remains more mystery to explore, more to be discovered than understood.’
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Is Zeus mad at Mel Gibson?
Lightning strikes the star of ‘The Passion of Christ.’
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Daily Kos and religious liberals.
‘Secular liberals, you need to get a clue: there are lots of deeply religious people out here who reliably pull the lever in the voting booth for the straight D ticket.’
‘Of course it worries me that a few extremely conservative individuals, for political reasons of their own, are trying to manipulate the people of the Episcopal Church.’
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Elliott Smith.
Mrs Philocrites and I mourn the death of the singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. His October 28, 2000, show at the Avalon in Boston was one of our early dates.
A round-up of recent blogging.
Diane Olson, who was elected moderator in June 2001, resigned in September 2003.
Neoconservatives defend the use of American power almost entirely in terms of American interests, while the liberals defend the use of American power in the service of liberal ideals.