Is Debt a Religious Issue?
In a shameless ploy for sympathy, I’ll warn you that I’m writing this blog entry while under the effects of delicious, delicious Darvocet. Since my surgery on Tuesday, I’ve been eating it like it was...
View ArticleNoise and the Body: Reviewing A Book About Noise, Part Two
“To say that you want to live in a less noisy world, and to say it with any depth of conviction, is in essence to say that you’d like to have your body back.” - Garret Keizer, The Unwanted Sound of...
View ArticleOn Love of Country
National holidays like the Fourth of July always leave me feeling a little bit uncomfortable, like being the only single friend tagging along on Married Couples’ Night Out, or being invited to goggle...
View ArticlePoetry and Peace
I am, frankly, nearly fed up with daily-politics-as-usual at the moment — and as a result, I’ve been finding it hard to come up with things to share here at Pagan+Politics, happy to let some of our...
View ArticleThe Hospitable Warrior I: Tribes, Poverty, and War
The Deadly Oath The ancient Irish tale Aided Óenfhir Aífe, “The Death of Aífe’s Only Son,” tells how the great warrior Cú Chulainn killed his son, Connla. Cú Chulainn had been training for battle in a...
View ArticleThe Hospitable Warrior II: Mutual Assured Vulnerability
Drum’s Dilemma Last week Kevin Drum at Mother Jones posed the following question: Suppose that you lead a comfortable middle-class life. Let’s say that you’re in your 30s, married, two children, and...
View ArticleThe Killing Blow
Call me the name of peace as though it were a curse, and I will bless you, saying, Yes, and I will lift up the white flower of cowardice and trembling, I will lift up that blossom the color of snow and...
View ArticleWhat Does Justice Look Like?
What does justice look like? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself over the past few days, in the wake of the startling news of Osama bin Laden’s death. Responses have been flooding the internet as...
View ArticleOnly the Dead: On Memory and History
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – George Santayana Popularly misattributed to Plato, it was Spanish-American George Santayana who first wrote that ringing phrase in his “Soliloquies in...
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