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UNSCHOOLING & UNWORKING: Confessions of a stay-at-home family (Part 3)

Posted in Features, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »

What is unschooling? What do we do on a daily basis? How does my daughter learn if she isn’t taught or isn’t forced to do homework? Is it legal? These are only a few of the questions we get about unschooling.

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REPUBLICANS DO A LITTLE SOUL SEARCHING: New Old News Feed (February 1, 2010)

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Republicans love tests so much they’ve decided to test themselves: “It urges leaders of local, state and national Republican parties to ‘carefully screen’ the voting record and positions of Republican candidates that want party backing, and determine whether they ‘wholeheartedly support the core principles and positions’ of the party as laid out in its platform.” [...]

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DETHRONING A KING, by Tripp York (MLK Series)

Posted in Holidays, Series, tagged , , , , on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In this essay, Christian anarchist and professor of Religious Studies, Tripp York, discusses the co-opting of King’s beliefs and message. “A dangerous Negro, now a national hero. How shall we work with that?” —Vincent Harding In a brief essay entitled “Martin Luther King, Jr: Dangerous Prophet,” Vincent Harding (a colleague of King) reminds his readers [...]

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THE ENERGY, THE SPIRIT, INFUSES ME: Dodging the bullet of civilization

Posted in Features, tagged , , , on January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Almost everyone I know is having mystical experiences, even and especially, the skeptics. It’s like a pulsing pushing-up feeling coming into us, inhabiting us, reminding us we are alive. Now, my friends, is the time for anamnesis, the loss of forgetting. The culture of destruction forgets that we are living beings, with health and vitality [...]

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“HERMES IN THE THE AGORA: Communication, Cultural Mediation and the Anarchic Spirit,” by Nick Louras

Posted in All That is Sacred, Features, tagged , on December 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Ed.: Our friends in the Moorish Orthodox Church hipped us to this piece, which covers everything from anarchy, to the hermetic tradition, to the complications of identity, to false enemies, to the problems of binary systems, to love and magical sex. In short, it’s exactly what we love finding in our inbox on a Wednesday [...]

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MERRY PRESENTMAS: Mother & Daughter agree on the real meaning of Christmas, By Myra Eddy

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , on December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last week, I sat down with my daughter to have a heart-to-heart about Christmas. She’s nine now, and it was time to break the news. “Did you know, kid, that Christmas is actually about Jesus?” From the blank look on her face, I could tell she didn’t. “The reason people celebrate Christmas is because it’s [...]

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GIFTS & GIVING: “The Gift,” by Blake Seidenshaw

Posted in Series, tagged , , , , , on December 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Like all gifts, the gift of giving is as much for the giver as for the receiver. This paradox is especially true of homemade gifts. The modern tradition of purchasing pre-made gifts arises from our tendency to want to really give something to the receiver. Interacting through the medium of money, however, severs the giver, [...]

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