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Moyers & Campbell on Star Wars’ Mythological Influences
As public television stations around the country rebroadcast The Power of Myth — Bill Moyers’ groundbreaking conversations with mythologist Joseph Campbell — Moyers shares this compelling clip which draws …
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Stepping Away: An Experiment in Research Methods
The world outside my writing room window is diamond bright. Gleaming black ravens hop and posture around the corn chips and unshelled peanuts I’ve scattered for their breakfast. Conan, …
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A Woman’s Womb: America’s New Sports Arena
(Photo: ~*Leah*~ / Flickr) In advance, I apologize to my grown kids for what might be, for them, an embarrassing discussion about their mother's sex life and …
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Over the Top With Rick Santorum
Surely Rick Santorum is the most fanatical Christian to run for the Republican nomination in the modern era, maybe any era. Next to him, Pat Robertson, billionaire founder of …
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“Free Radicals” Celebrates Subversive Science
(Image: Profile Books) With his book, “Free Radicals,” British physicist and journalist Michael Brooks seeks principally to provide a counternarrative to popular interpretations of the scientific world …
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To My Mother
Catholic Bishop William Lori, the Rev. Matthew Harrison, Dr. Ben Mitchell, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Craig Mitchell are sworn in during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing …
Bill Moyers: Freedom of and From Religion
The president did something agile and wise the other day. And something quite important to the health of our politics. He reached up and snuffed out what some folks …
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Will Catholic Bishops and the Religious Right Save Obama?
What is most striking about the showdown over contraceptive freedom is not the political victory that President Obama earned by standing up for women's reproductive rights, although his Republican …
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A Religious War Out of Thin Air
Washington - At ease, Christian soldiers. There is no “war on religion,” no assault on the Catholic Church. A faith that has endured for thousands of years will survive …
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A Biohazard Valentine of Dissent
Recently, discourse, within the free-range pathogen zone of the U.S. political realm, has been infected and inflamed by the use of verbiage (applied both in the metaphoric and literal …