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Amazing Light Photography by Alan Jaras. (A tip of the hat to The Daily Dish.)

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Andrew J. Brown, an English liberal Christian Unitarian, blogs at CAUTE: Some more thoughts on Garden Academies . . . if liberals are going to get real things done in these difficult times then we need to recall that our power has always been in the cultivation of small and ever-evolving gardens which, collectively, show [...]

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Over at John Scalzi’s Whatever (home of cat photos, sunsets, and the famous bacon on a cat): I Don’t Know Art, But I Know What I Like Now up for bid, this absolutely stunning piece of modern work entitled ‘I Will Be There At The End of All Things, or, The Shreddination’ by the prodigiously [...]

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The Spring 2008 issue of Harvard Divinity Bulletin has a lovely essay by Marilynne Robinson, “Credo.” History up to the present moment tells us again and again that a narrow understanding of faith very readily turns to bitterness and coerciveness. There is something about certainty that makes Christianity un-Christian. Instances of this are only too [...]

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The relay portion of the Relay for Life in Second Life has now begun. For the next 24 hours, people will be celebrating, learning, mourning, virtually walking, and yes, raising money for the American Cancer Society. If you have not yet made a contribution (or even if you have and want to contribute again), you [...]

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A wonderfully succint definition by lynnewu on Twitter: social media are “presence by other means”, and that includes Twitter, IM, and SecondLife

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The University of Nottingham has videos about the elements:

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