Executive Pagan

From those wonderful Athena groupies at Bryn Mawr… here’s a recording of the hymn, and the lyrics (with translation, reproduced below).

What I’m doing with this blog, and why, and whether it has run its course. It may be a few days before I post anything further.

Lacking capacity for substantive thought at the present time. System expected to resume operation later in the week; we apologize for any inconvenience.

I don’t have time to work on my own posts right now, but I’ve got one brewing on Shinto and Hellenism that I hope to post over the weekend, as well as one on systems theory and process theology (more inspiring than it sounds!). In the meantime, this is one of those weeks when greatness [...]

UPDATE: Three protesters were arrested in the Senate chamber after attempting to shout/pray down the guest chaplain. They are being charged with “disrupting Congress”, a misdemeanor offence.
Today, for the first time in American history, a Hindu chaplain was invited to deliver the invocation at the opening of the U.S. Senate session. Naturally, this is being [...]

…just because it’s sacred, doesn’t mean we humans have any business inviting it in and letting it make our decisions for us without applying a moral test to our acts. Just because it’s a god doesn’t mean it’s right, or just, or kind… we are responsible for the gods we choose to worship. [emphasis mine] [...]

I’m a constant reader, and have been since age 4. Over that time I’ve read fiction and fact, great literature, absolute dreck, and a whole bunch of stuff in between. I was thinking about my lifelong love affair with the printed word the other day, after re-reading this Sinfest strip, and I realized how much [...]