Month: March 2006

Last week here at the pond, there was a convergence of energies that seemed to be going in two different directions. One was an awareness that perhaps it was time to “up the stakes” in our activities against the Bush...

“I don’t walk about belief – whether or not we should have started this war. Rather, I walk because we shouldn’t live our lives as if all is normal. People are suffering every moment because of this war...

The 18th-century Quaker activist (and early abolitionist) John Woolman is quoted as having said this (below the fold) as he lay dying:O Lord my God! the amazing horrors of darkness were gathered around me and covered me all...

While a draft of the GOP proposed legislation sponsored by DeWine, Snowe, Graham and Hagel is not yet publicly available, some reporters have written about the substantive provisions after receiving a copy of the draft...

That is the question asked by Deepak Chopra. Since science has falsified much of what the Bible tells us as stories, Chopra suggests that most people have two different choices they can make. With no privileged link to God, no...