I was driving in Madison (outskirts of Nashville, TN) and saw two Halloween stores within a few blocks. Stores devoted to Halloween! In between the two was a Party Story decked out with monsters and skeletons
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Should Christians Observe Halloween? Boo Humbug!
Nevada (US), Oct 5 : Seeing his frequent forays into Hinduism, Hindus have suggested English actor-comedian Russell Brand to ceremonialize his upcoming wedding with American musician Katy Perry seriously with proper Hindu rituals and traditions.
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Hindus want Russell Brand to solemnize wedding with proper Hindu rituals
The noble struggle against the perils of socialism has reached a new zenith in Obion County, Tennessee: In this rural section of Tennessee, Gene Cranick’s home caught on fire. As the Cranicks fled their home, their neighbors alerted the county’s firefighters, who soon arrived at the scene. Yet when the firefighters arrived, they refused to put out the fire, saying that the family failed to pay the annual subscription fee to the fire department.
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Frontiers in Creative Destruction
Last week, my husband was helping me teach math to our boys. He made a remark about how they were both struggling with multiplication. You can imagine how that went over.
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Times Tales = Fun, Fast & Easy Multiplication
Paul Harvey The historian Sean Wilentz’s biography/analysis of Bob Dylan has been getting a lot of attention, including a very annoying and somewhat dyspeptic review in the New York Times. Much better informed and more interesting is Scott Poole’s essay on the book .
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Bob Dylan, Sacred Folkster
Manifestation of intention through visualisation in theosophy Sep 06, 2010 09:50 am I’m very glad to note that Pablo Sender had an article published in The Theosophist about a topic that’s VERY relevant to today’s world. Since he always gives me permission to publish his articles on my site, I just did.
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Visualisation, Auroville, Spiritual Teachings, Zen Quotes, Sufism and more
A mural portraying an ancient Chinese philosopher was officially unveiled on the side of a three-storey building in Chinatown on Saturday.
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Chinese philosopher honoured in mural
Paul Harvey In today’s New York Times , Samuel Freedman does a nice overview of the making of ” God in America ,” to be shown on PBS Oct. 11-13. A brief excerpt: Having always considered Jefferson “cerebral and slightly allergic to religion,” she recently recalled, [show producer Marilyn] Mellowes was instantly intrigued
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God in America and the New York Times
He says, “The Christian Church needs a spiritually strong and muscular Anglicanism to re-evangelize the West.” David Anderson, interloper bishop from Kenya, president of the American Anglican Council, opined t his bit of drivel in a larger essay in which he also put together his idea of what the “Global South bishops” should do if the Episcopal Church’s primate comes to the next meeting of the Primates. The suggestion is to throw her out of the meeting or pick up and move away from her to the next room
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Bishop David Anderson lives in la-la land.
I don’t speak for all liberals, much less for all Democrats, but I can say that my share of the so-called “enthusiasm gap” will not be closed by hectoring . Emotional states arise from circumstances and perceptions, not verbal demands to inhabit the emotional states. Worse, hectoring gives rise to annoyance, exasperation, and eventually anger, all of which are miles away from enthusiasm
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Outpost from the Enthusiasm Gap