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• Deconstructing Mythologies

  Posted on Thursday March 27th, 2008 at 18:28 in comparative religion, druidry, modern culture, myth, philosophy, scholarship, science, theology

  Deconstructing a mythology takes a long time.I'm not speaking here about analyzing the cultural and psychological aspects of ancient mythologies and pre-Christian pantheons (people who might have acci...

• A Quandary of Cats

  Posted on Friday February 22nd, 2008 at 19:28 in christianity, comparative religion, deity, diversity, theology, tolerance

  As I promised one reader in the comments of the previous post on John Michael Greer's book, A World Full of Gods, I'm going to take some time to explore and elaborate on what I think is the main flaw ...

• The Disillusioned Apprentice

  Posted on Tuesday February 19th, 2008 at 20:43 in aoda, christianity, comparative religion, deity, diversity, druidry, modern culture, struggle, theology, tolerance

  One reason I have been largely silent in this blog over the course of this month is I have been, admittedly, undergoing a kind of disillusionment regarding the Archdruid of AODA, John Michael Greer. O...

• Best of 100

  Posted on Monday February 4th, 2008 at 17:19 in comparative religion, creativity, diversity, myth, philosophy, practice, scholarship, struggle, theology

  In honor of my 100th post to this blog, I thought I'd look back over all my previous posts and highlight some of particular interest. Rest assured, I'm always striving to make the next hundred even be...

• Is Christ Special?

  Posted on Thursday January 24th, 2008 at 16:18 in aoda, Christ, christianity, comparative religion, deity, modern culture, myth, obod, scholarship, struggle, theology

  Continuing along my recent theological ponderings about polytheism, I return to a question that I've been asking myself for several years now. Growing up in a fairly open and religiously liberal atmos...

• Lacuna: Death & Afterwards

  Posted on Monday January 14th, 2008 at 21:13 in comparative religion, cosmogony, death, deity, theology

  Last bit of the Lacuna series, probably, as I already have some ideas for decent, proper blog entries in the works. This is something I actually wrote last January, after seeing a crappy Dateline (or ...

• The Many & The One : A Look at the Common Purposes of Polytheism & Monotheism

  Posted on Tuesday November 13th, 2007 at 21:35 in comparative religion, deity, diversity, modern culture, struggle, theology, tolerance

  The following is my response to Ule (a.k.a. Robin Artisson), who left an interesting comment to a recent post of mine (which was, in retrospect, a bit whiney of me, for which I apologize). Please take...

• The Purpose and Process of Belief

  Posted on Wednesday October 24th, 2007 at 16:45 in comparative religion, creativity, deity, struggle, theology

  In my recent post about intellectual honesty in the quest for a 'meaning of "God,"' I explored the preconditions for any such discussion as the ability to accept personal experiences as relevant discl...

• The God Question & Intellectual Honesty

  Posted on Monday October 22nd, 2007 at 22:51 in comparative religion, deity, philosophy, theology

  The post "Please Tell Me What 'God' Means," at Cosmic Variance (a blog run by a group of physicists and astrophysicists), was fascinating for me to read and has sparked a great deal of personal journa...

• On Faith & Its Loss

  Posted on Friday August 24th, 2007 at 19:37 in Christ, death, deity, grief, saints, struggle, theology

  (Still not the promised follow-up post on cereology, which is a shame, since my readership apparently jumped when I began mentioning crop circles. Still in the works, I swear.)Some of you may have alr...

• Eight Random Things

  Posted on Tuesday July 3rd, 2007 at 19:54 in choice, creativity, philosophy, struggle, theology

• Modern Myths about Christianity Series

  Posted on Saturday June 30th, 2007 at 15:09 in Christ, comparative religion, death, deity, diversity, philosophy, scholarship, theology, tolerance

• What We Know & How We Know It - Part III

  Posted on Wednesday June 13th, 2007 at 12:45 in Christ, comparative religion, cosmogony, deity, diversity, philosophy, scholarship, theology

  Texts, Truths and Traditions:A Study in Three PartsIn a recent post, blogger Robin Artisson, proposed this intriguing question: "What if the entire New Testament was a construct, a forgery, a fake? Wh...