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material girls: or, how a nice Buddhist girl found happiness giving Christmas presents ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I love presents. Getting them (of course!), but also buying them, wrapping them, giving them. I like French ribbon in loopy old-fashioned bows. And shiny foil paper. I like looking for tiny ornaments — feathers, vintage tags, a candy cane, maybe — to put in the center of the bow. And I love stocking stuffers:…
the changing face(s) of America ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
A note after the election (long, so be warned): Eight years ago, when Bush was re-elected, I couldn’t believe it. I was devastated. I couldn’t believe the American people would voluntarily re-elect a man I saw as so divisive, so driven to war, so corporately owned. I was heart-sick. In other words, I really do…
spiritual beings…
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Britton Gildersleeve
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. ~ Pierre Tielhard de Chardin Sometimes I wonder if all of the religious differences in the world are not summed up in this quote. Certainly most of the schisms in Western religion are. And perhaps the reason I…
koine Greek, missing the mark, and beginner’s heart ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
My sister-in-law reads Biblical Greek. Not the New Testament kind, but the kind that the really old parts of the Jewish & Christian Bible are written in. She’s a Presbyterian minister, which is one of the few ways (that I know of, at least) to come by such arcane skills. Here’s what she told me…
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