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I’d love to quote the conclusion of Nancy’s Apology: Harry Potter and the Eerie Silence, but that just wouldn’t be cool. It’s longish for a blog post, and worth every moment spent.
I don’t think it was the pagan or magic aspects of the Potter books that drove the conservatives nutty: I think it was the [...]

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Yesterday I was on a panel in Second Life for a University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism fellowship program project. The fellows had researched and created reports on “Faces of Faith: God Sex Family” and decided to bring their reports into Second Life. As part of their weeklong exhibit, they organized this panel [...]

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Sometimes I read something that both makes my editor’s heart go pitter-pat and feeds my spirit. Doug Muder, a writer I’m glad to be getting to know better, has posted The Go(o)d Crutch at his blog Free and Responsible Search. I heartily recommend it.

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Very nice rant over at iMinister about how “transformation and religious education are uniquely the purposes of church.” The specifics of the rant are very UU-specific, but the underlying concern is apropos to Quaker meetings as well.

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A very nice article in USA Today: Faithful build a Second Life for religion online, even if they did ignore the Quakers (and almost skipped the Buddhists and assorted Pagans). Near the end is a statement that rings true for me:
Indeed, says Internet expert Julian Dibbell, “virtual reality is in some ways an essentially spiritual [...]

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“Sayings of the Jewish Buddhist”
Be here now.
Be someplace else later.
Is that so complicated?
Tip of the hat to Noli Irritare Leones.

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Longer excerpts of the interviews I conducted with members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Second Life have been published as a companion to the story I wrote. The excerpts include one interview that was cut from the edited story.

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Unless something unusual occured, as of yesterday I am no longer a member of the Religious Society of Friends. Here’s the letter I sent to my meeting:
Dear Friends,
This letter is to let you know of my decision to resign my membership in Beacon Hill Friends Meeting. I have not, for some time, been acting as [...]

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I wrote the article now featured on the uuworld.org home page: Religious reality in a virtual world.
A dragon, an angel, and a bug-eyed monster sit down in a Unitarian Universalist church. No, it’s not the beginning of a bad joke. If you’re in the popular online world of Second Life, it may just be a [...]

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