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In the last election, the term “Soccer Mom” described suburban, swing-voting women. The feeling was that Soccer Moms were important because no one was really sure how they’d vote, and that they carpooled in large numbers. In the end, this label was perhaps mostly a media phenomenon, something chewed over by pundits. So now, here’s…

This segment from PBS’s evening “News Hour” is really worth watching (scroll to Wednesday, August 16, fourth item down). It’s about the current trans fats debate in Chicago initiated by Alderman Edward Burke, who thinks the artery-clogging ingredient in many fried foods and packaged crackers, chips, and baked goods should be “outlawed.” Keep watching until…

Lots of fabulous mail on my recent post about prayer beads and home altars. Basically, most readers contentedly catch sacred moments when they can. Krista White meditates and prays in the “woods, washing dishes, waiting in line at the school to pick up my daughter,” she says, adding: “This doesn’t feel wrong to me as…

You know, right now, I have piles of Ken Wilber books, and CDs and DVDs stacked around me. Hi, Ken. How are you? He’s always with me. I keep waiting to more thoroughly digest his spiritual theories of the universe, put them all up on Beliefnet, and get you hip to the remarkable Integral Institute.…
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