
2012 Thing on Thursday #9 After numerous polls on liturgy, we now begin a series returning to fundamental concepts and questions. This week, let’s revisit debates about what to call ourselves. This issue is complicated. Much ink has been spilled…
Read MoreAncient Hellenic Pagans didn’t acknowledge conflict between science and religion.* Yet we are quite familiar with their old myths: Homer and Hesiod have left us an immortal poetic heritage, full of woo and unlikelihoods, where the Gods are more hysterical…
Read MoreThis Sunday Coming up, our first ever bilingual article! Hilaria explores how we might orient ourselves toward religions that change and evolve (in English/Italian). How should we behave towards the stories of myth? / Come comportarsi con i racconti del…
Read More2012 Thing on Thursday #8 Last week’s poll on creating sacred space yielded some surprising results: a leading response was “purifying the space.” This is puzzling because “purification” was not favored at all on our earlier liturgical elements poll. It…
Read More– by B. T. Newberg Looking over our list of contributors here at HP, we have an imperfect, but not terrible, balance of the sexes: about 1/3 women to 2/3 men. The GLBT demographic is fairly well-represented. We’ve also got…
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