[caption id="attachment_3952" align="alignleft" width="314" caption=""I'm you...only smugger.""][/caption] I thought I could let the whole Christine O’Donnell dabble-gate blow over without comment. But then the candidate from Delaware released a new political ad in which she says, “I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.” Oh, dear Christine, you are so not me. Unlike you, I believe in evolution, I don’t believe that scientists created mice with human brains (human brain cells do not a human brain make), I don’t believe that masturbation constitutes adultery, I do not believe all homosexuals suffer from mental illness, I think women should be able

Are you smarter than an atheist? In a book titled Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know – And Doesn’t, university professor Stephen Prothero wrote that “Americans are both deeply religious and profoundly ignorant about religion.” This summer, researchers from the independent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted a survey to find out just how ignorant we are. The answer seems to be “yeah, pretty ignorant.” On average, Americans correctly answered only 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the Bible, some basic elements of Christianity, Judaism, Mormonism, and world religions, the role of religion in civic life, and the definitions of agnostic

Quick note before the weekend starts – Twin Cities Pagan Pride is this weekend (September 25-26) at Lake Harriet Spiritual Community. Please check out their website and come down and participate if you can. Don’t forget to bring a food shelf donation! Also, the fine people of TCPP are now organizing an indoor, hotel conference from March 25 to March 27, 2011: Paganicon! Yes, we’re finally getting some mid-winter action in Minnesota (face it, March is still mid-winter around here!), and I fully expect this will be a great time to connect, share, and party to our heart’s galore. Anyway. Here’s a win-win situation for you to consider this weekend: take advantage of Paganicon’s

It's a funny thing, having lawyers in the family - I always seem to pay more attention to the legal ramifications of issues in Pagan life, whether that's the debate about religious observances at city hall, or parental custody battles during divorces, or chaplains employed by the prison system. So no surprise that today a family member sent me an AP article titled "Toil and trouble: Romania rejects tax on witches." Well, those lucky Romanian witches and fortune-tellers are still off the hook and don't need to pay taxes on their magic-related earnings. But what really struck me in the article was that the proposed bill, if accepted, would not only have taxed witches and