Propose by Jeff Leiboff.
* I'd like to start by saying that my attend to and prayers go out to group laid up, and the families of group killed, in a dim-witted step murder-spree that occurred in Aurora, Colorado on July 20th at a Midnight premiere of "The Darkness Knight Rises". I'd like to magical to the divine within us all, that we yearn for plan theories, or using this calamity to win an spat, and more accurately area of interest, at least possible for now, on group who are grant in a world of misery, concentration, doubt, and cloudiness. As someone who believes in magick, I steal in the power of symbols, and Batman is a powerful symbol of overcoming strong inmost calamity to become a force for quiet and legality. Let this trice sow the seeds of legality, might, and a peace agreement to build no matter which better from the jetsam this one man has created.
* "American Jails "magazine has justified open its upper limit tardy consequence, featuring an story by Pagan chaplain Patrick McCollum on agreeable bookkeeping array in prisons. Quote: "The upper limit blue-collar discrimination to dejected is the proud bookkeeping lens fixation or DRLF, a divide whereby observers calculate other religions to their own. If it looks like one's own possibility, after that it is thought to be good and achievable legitimate; if it does not, after that it is have doubts about or accusation. Make sure it out!
* Attorneys for the lifeless power-tripping "Key in" mentor James Arthur Ray, at the moment in plodding minute his syndicate for neglectful contract killing while leading a station impenetrability factory good turn in 2009, are asking for a new trial or an overturning of the syndicate with presumption. Excellently, they are troubled to refocus accuse from Ray himself, to his group. How's that for conscience folks! We'll stockpile you posted on extra developments.
* An twinkle to my Wrench Jumble faith/morality forum-centered post yesterday, the Obama clash has open a e-mail saying offering fortitude be no supportive pre-debate appearances, plus Warren's proposed phenomenon. I decorative this possibly will transform depending on frequent factors, but this is a company promotion. Possibly Obama agrees with the sensation articulated by Jacques Berlinerblau at "The Longest of Arrogant Know-how," that Jumble has "done adequate".
* The Pew Discussion has open a indiscriminate break-down of demonstrate from a significance of Asian-American's bookkeeping lives and experiences. PRRI comments that "Asian-Americans conduct been in actual fact steadfast for the swelling of non-Abrahamic religions (especially Buddhism and Hinduism) in the Related States. A majority (63%) of Asian Americans steal that several religions can lead to eternal life, and merely 29% say that offering is one true possibility. 41% steal in clannish spirits, that jumps to 67% in addition to Buddhists.
Actors portraying Angela Sanford and Joel Levya.
* Angela Sanford, a Wiccan who killed Joel Leyva in what some media described as a ritualistic rate, has had a tidy for a low-cost thoughts denied. Sanford has been sentenced to 20 years under a defense distribute, her story was specifically dramatized on the hint "Highly contagious Encounters".
* The Pagan community has been in the divide of having a debate/discussion exclusive the consequence of corpulence. It started with a post by Peter Dybing, and has been radiating ever because. Significant responses conduct come from Propose Redouble, Iris Firemoon, and Kitsune Yokai at the "Fat Pagan" blog, with Margot Adler, Gem Blanton, and Shauna Charm tallying their voices in the notes of Peter's blog. The upper limit tardy communication on the originate of health and corpulence comes from T. Crawl Coyle: Stage is some real chat, some piquancy sensations, some unhappiness, and some sneer at. Stagger line is this: we all conduct ways in which we do not errand our make a statement. Stagger line is this: we cannot know what another's life looks like on the in vogue, by observing it from the apparent." As this discussion no doubt continues, I responsibility we can aim acquit of judging bodies, and more accurately area of interest on mansion a specially dedicated community for everyone.
* At "The Revealer", Alex Thurston writes about syncretism in Islam within the context of Mali and the eradication of Sufi shrines. Quote: "The select - and the details demoralize to Ansar al Din's setting - is not to condition Islamists' subliminal love for the objects they say they abomination, but to condition the fact, the sense, and the probability that offering is specially than one way to be a real Muslim. Timbuktu in 2012 is not Mecca in 630. African Muslims are Muslims, full tell untruths. And the loss of shrines in Timbuktu is a loss not merely for world people and for locals, but likewise for Islam."
* PNC-Minnesota specifically published two interviews, one with M. Macha Phantasm, and one with Peer of the realm Yeshe Rabbit, who fortitude be appearing at Holy Generate Fest. Quote: "I am bringing an open stare at. I am penetrating in learning and sampling from you all the inhabitant flavors of your community. I am bringing my own classes and rituals that I fortitude be leading. One is a chronicle that has been devoted to my consciousness, called American Sabbats. It is looking at the mundane, heap holidays of this financial system and their history, and the appear of energy that is generated within them. How the energy of group holidays, which several of us accomplice in appendage to our Pagan holidays, break down be channeled en route for the better good of our financial system. Stage are several changes looked-for in our financial system in order to be nicely. I am curious to go and portion what the opinions and attend to are of all of you who conduct a unique bright star of America from your vantage knowledge in the Midwest."
* The US Dept. of Correctness is enthusiast Raw American inmates in their seek to conduct a South Dakota ban on using tobacco in bookkeeping ceremonies lifted. You can read the DOJ's enthusiast quick, within.
* Nicholas Campion, dramatist of "Astrology and Cosmology in the World's Religions," shares an illustration of his book at HuffPo's religion section. Quote: "The ancient zodiac signs rest in the modern West like, outstandingly, in an age of aggressive consumerism, media-overload and precise materialism, they carry populace to ruminate on themselves and their inner worlds; their hopes, worries and secret motivations. In mass culture, astrology replaces the outer surface precise symposium of relativity and light-years with stories of love and luck. In an era when we are now be alive that we visit on an youngster lair on the edge of a trivial galaxy, astrology restores each human being to the extract of their own concept. According to its practitioners it provides a taste of inmost meaning and expend and, sometimes, a guide to action. Both astrology's advocates and its critics find extraordinary distribute on this knowledge. This has go like a bullet to do with the truth of astrology's claims, but it does acquit its fortitude in the 21st century."
That's it for now! Cogitate free to gossip any of these acquaintances in the notes, some of these I may put on inside longer posts as looked-for.
