Monthly Archives: March 2012

Sightings   March 29, 2012 – Caryn D. Riswold Who imagined that the hot political topic in Spring 2012 would be contraception? That Rush Limbaugh would flame back into relevance for demanding that a Georgetown law student provide him and … Continue reading →

Review of Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by William Saletan – March 25, 2012 (c) The New York Times You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. … Continue reading →

Praying – Mary Oliver It doesn’t have to be/ the blue iris, it could be/ weeds in a vacant lot, or a few/ small stones; just pay attention, then patch/ a few words together and don’t try/ to make them … Continue reading →

Prayer – A Poem by Marie Howe Every day I want to speak with you. And every day something more important/ calls for my attention—the drugstore, the beauty products, the luggage/ I need to buy for the trip./ Even now … Continue reading →

Philosophical dualism has been with us for a long time. It’s one of the key components of Western thought: good and evil, masculine and feminine, subject and object, and the big one: mind and body. Nancey Murphy is a Christian … Continue reading →

From live web chat with Irshad Manji, one of the world’s leading Muslim reformers–called by some “the Martin Luther of Islam”–Friday, March 16th. Prof. Manji was drawing on her briefing of the House of Lords, UK, earlier in the month in … Continue reading →

See review of novel ”Gods without Men,” (2011, Knopf) Hari Kunzru, a must-read I’m discovering - by Douglas Copeland 3/11/12 – [blogger notes in brackets.] (Excerpt from review) …only in the past decade that we appear to have entered an aura-free universe … Continue reading →

  In the Face of Adversity Endurance shines as the hallmark of  the prophets, the lodestone of the prophetic. Those who are willing to endure when endurance looks insane, has no hope of prevailing, consumes everything else in its path, … Continue reading →

Excerpt from Sightings  3/12/2012  — Martin E. Marty …All readers have access to and are probably overwhelmed by too many often ephemeral (news cycle by news cycle) events and comments. Why add to them. I say this not without respect … Continue reading →

By Susan Okie — physician, former medical reporter and national science editor for The Washington Post, and a clinical assistant professor of family medicine at Georgetown University. ©2012, Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group Posted on Mar 8, … Continue reading →