Narratives With Depth and Power

Spring                                                           Bee Hiving Moon Here is why I think the ironically evangelical atheists have it wrong. Today is Good Friday (though I’m not clear how it […]

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Humanism

Fall                                                      Waxing Autumn Moon Spiritual Resources for Humanists.  Been thinking about this from an odd perspective.  Humanism is often characterized as anti- or post-Christian.  It is, of course, easy to see why this should be so in such Christian marinated cultures as those of the United States and Europe.  Easy, yes.  But accurate? Think about […]

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Let There Be Darkness

Fall                                                Waxing Harvest Moon Let’s try darkness again.  In Taoism the familiar Taiji makes my point about the essential and complementary nature of light and dark.  Taoism gives equal weight to the yin and yang* represented in the taiji, the small circle of yin within the yang and of yang within the yin, emphasizing the […]

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