11.06.08

Barack Obama as Mystic

Posted in articles at 12:17 am by MPJ

Now that the election is over I can say it without anyone accusing me of trying to influence the election!  About a year ago, while reading “the Audacity of Hope,” I got the notion that Barack Obama may be at the Mystic level of spiritual development - that is at the fourth of four stages we have enough data to address.*  That of course was not reason enough to vote for him as president and I really did not think too much about it after that.  It was only today, while I was recalling some aspects of some of his speeches, that it hit me:  I am pretty sure:  Read the rest of this entry »

10.22.08

The Right of Pharmacists to Refuse to Dispense Birth Control Prescriptions

Posted in articles at 4:22 pm by MPJ

Here is a news item about a pharmacy that just opening in my county where the plan is that they refuse to sell birth control, candy and sodas.  http://wwrn.org/article.php?idd=29388  I don’t know, but do pharmacies sell cigarettes anymore?  I wonder if this place will similarly refuse to sell those?  Surely cigarettes are a larger vice than candy, soda and - dare I say it? - SEX!    I have a brother who once owned probably the only convenience store in the world where there were no cigarettes for sale.  That was his belief - that the use of cigarettes places an undue burden on society and thus is immoral.  At tremendous cost to Read the rest of this entry »

10.13.08

Religulous - Bill Maher’s new “Rationalist” movie

Posted in articles at 10:05 pm by MPJ

Sorry I have not posted any articles here in a few weeks.  Excuses include the fact that at first I was working mostly on my upcoming book.  Then I could not access the blog for a few days while I was having it upgraded to a newer Wordpress version.  Then my husband returned from spending a year in Alaska. Shortly thereafter, I had Read the rest of this entry »