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Author Archives: Brendan
Question of the week: Celebrations.
In early February, Celts celebrate a festival sometimes called Imbolc, sometimes called Candlemas, sometimes called Saint Bridgit’s day; each of these names signifying a different thematic emphasis or a different kind of ceremony related to the season. The ‘original’ theme, … Continue reading
Inspirational Question of the Week: Pilgrimage
On the suggestion of a friend of mine (Hello V.M.!), I’m going to post a question, once a week, to this blog for people to discuss with me and with each other. For I am committed to the idea that … Continue reading
Ecology and Revelation
On Earth Day 2008, I presented this public talk for a group called PEBBIA, “Putting Earth Based Beliefs In Action”. Due to some technical difficulties we couldn’t record the entire presentation. But here is as much of it as we … Continue reading
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A woman’s hands.
I just noticed something. Obama took the Presidential Oath on Lincoln’s bible. Everybody knows that – every journalist I’ve read all day emphasised that point. Then I looked at the photo: his wife was holding the bible at the time. … Continue reading
Virtue in a galaxy far, far away
I was going through my hard drive, in search of a newspaper article I thought I had saved a few weeks ago, and found a paragraph of text that was cut from the manuscript of “The Other Side of Virtue”. … Continue reading
Last thoughts about the reason v intuition debate.
All, I do the lecture on the importance and the power of reason in every undergraduate course I teach at every university where I’ve been retained as a lecturer. So this isn’t a new debate to me, and to be … Continue reading
How Beautiful Are They
In other news: the essay I wrote for the Mount Haemus event is now available on the OBOD web site. Have a look: http://druidry.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&topic_id=1&page_id=158
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Surprises
This week I’ve had a number of surprises. – I find that I’m teaching one of my courses in War Memorial Hall, one of the really classy and beautiful buildings on the U of G campus. – The driver of … Continue reading
Posted in Archive 2007-2009
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The passing of Deo’s Shadow
Some of you may have noted that Deo’s Shadow Podcast, once the most popular pagan podcast on the entire internet, has been discontinued by its hosts. Deo presents his reasons here.
New Heroism.
I’d like to draw attention to this post by erynn999 concerning an Aboriginal community which, due to a collapse in their fishery this year, has not enough money to buy heating oil. In the winter. In Alaska. Some of the … Continue reading →