Stunningly beautiful Hellenic picture book

I’m a picture book junkie, and I don’t throw around these adjectives lightly… the illustrator was obviously heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, and in particular by Edward Burne-Jones.

Orpheus and Eurydice

Another half-step forward for religious equality

As everyone else is also reporting today, the US Department of Veterans Affairs has officially added the pentacle to the list of allowable gravestone marker symbols. Many kudos are due to Circle Sanctuary and all who helped correct this inequity.

Great post on religious orientation

I’m working on a new original post, but in the meantime you should go read this wonderful post by Mam Adar; it definitely “speaks to my condition”, as the Quakers would say.

Away for a few days

I am struggling to finish a sermon for this Sunday’s Earth Day service at my UU church; if I have a minute and something quick to say I may post, but I promise nothing.

I’ll return to a more regular posting schedule next week;  in the meantime, I leave you with this:

“Apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health – what have the Romans ever done for us?”

“Brought peace?”

“Shut up.”

Hospitality

I haven’t said so explicitly until now, but in operating this blog I have tried to be consciously guided by the principle of Gastblogschaft, as developed by Bernulf and Sojourner. I see it as a natural expression of xenia, the principle of guest/host relations that is such an important part of the Hellenic tradition.

Just so you know.

Hellenic humor

If you haven’t seen Jamie Rieger’s website, follow the link; his deconstruction of Homer and Herodotus is absolutely priceless. He’s no longer updating, but says he plans to leave the site intact, at least for now.

A sample:

Sacrifice and offering – then and now

This post is largely a response to Cat Chapin-Bishop’s reply to my previous post; I see from her comments where I need to expand on my thinking.

Embodied spirituality, sacrifice and the everyday sacred

This was going to be multiple posts, until I realized that I can’t separate the concepts enough to discuss them in isolation… and this will probably not be the last word on the topic, as I can already tell I’m not going to get all my thoughts out in this little space.

The Bayeux Tapestry – animated!

This is entirely too cool…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDaB-NNyM8o

Booklist meme

Got this from Kay, original source Onehandclapping…

Here’s what you do:

• Bold the ones you’ve read.
• Italicize the ones you want to read.
• Leave in normal text the ones that don’t interest you.
• Put in ALL CAPS those you haven’t heard of.
• Put a couple of asterisks by the ones you recommend.

(And I’m going to add another step: put a couple of plus signs (++) by it if you’ve seen “the movie” – film or TV show – whether or not you read the book. – Erik)