Easter. Not my holiday. In an earlier post I've written about how, as a Unitarian Universalist of Jewish heritage, I've taken to celebrating Christmas. Not Easter, though. Too much historical baggage there for me. The Christmas story is warm, inclusive, expansive. The poor Jewish shepherds … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2013
Best Book in the Bible – Akiba, Ingersoll, and the Song of Songs
Here's a riddle for you: What did Akiba ben Joseph, the great rabbi of the 2nd century CE, and Robert Ingersoll, the great agnostic of the 19th century about whom I posted last week, have in common? Answer: they both thought the Song of Songs (a.k.a. "Song of Solomon") was the best book of the … [Read more...]
Agnostic Robert Ingersoll – “Here, We Should Be Friends”
A lady named Priscilla Threadgill has posted a comment to my Facebook Fan Page, that may be one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me. "Are you using UFO as 'unidentified flying object,' " Priscilla writes, "or something further like 'universal friendship organization'? Well, … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – Father, Son
"Leon comes off much kinder in this episode than in the finished book." That comment appeared on my Facebook Fan Page about the first episode of Outtakes of a UFO Investigator, which I published four weeks ago as a download from this blog. It was posted by my friend Bryan Gilmer--and he ought to … [Read more...]