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“The Death of Everything” by Brock Haussamen
Editor’s note: This essay was originally published at Brock Haussamen’s blog 3.8 Billion Years. I wrote last year about my five fears of dying. They included four familiar ones—fear of pain and fears of letting go of my life and my ego—along…
Read MoreMusings of a Pagan Mythicist: “Getting Down to Earth: Caring for Compost″ by Maggie Jay Lee
There is something deeply spiritual about composting. For years I’ve had a compost pile, really just a refuse heap confined by pig wire. It was almost impossible to turn or to get at any of the finished compost. The flies…
Read MoreStarstuff, Contemplating: “Death is Life” by Jon Cleland Host
We are assemblages of ancient atoms forged in stars – atoms organized by history to the point of consciousness, now able to contemplate this sacred Universe of which we are a tiny, but wondrous, part. Life is Death, and Death…
Read More“Unitarian Universalism and Paganism” by Crafter Yearly
Paganism grounds me in the natural world. Unitarian Universalism grounds me in the human, social world. And I am deeply grateful for these two expansive and inclusive traditions.
Read More“‘As the gods pour, so do mortals’: An alternative conception of divine reciprocity” by John Halstead (Part 2)
PART 2: AN ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTION OF DIVINE RECIPROCITY In Part 1 of this essay (published last month), I critiqued a popular understanding of divine reciprocity. But there is another conception of divine reciprocity. It is rooted in the notion of…
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