Spring Waning Bloodroot Moon Dangerous driving conditions tomorrow. Winter storm warning. Who stole my spring? Into the city twice today, once to get my teeth cleaned and a second time for a Sierra Club meeting on legislative basics. The teeth cleaning, an every 6 months visit, has become routine by now. Mary, the dental hygienist […]
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Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon Another day spent happily with my nose in The Contested Enlightenment, parsing out threads of intellectual history that I can then weave together into a new tale, one that clarifies liberalism in the United States today and, also, the place Unitarian-Universalism, a liberal faith, has in that larger context. Liberalism proceeds […]
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How Are We?
Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon In preparation for my presentation, Spiritual Resources for Humanists, I have come across two mentions of a critique of Enlightenment thought’s emphasis on individualism. In one instance the critique compares Western individualism with the more integrated person of Taoist thought, one with the Tao, or with the more communal sensibility of […]
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