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There is no set way to celebrate the December holidays anymore. I’m not an advocate of “mixing everything up.” I’m just saying a lot of us are mixing it up through mixed-faith marriage, conversion, or inventive experiment. Last Christmas eve, I stepped out of church and noticed six Jewish friends standing there on the steps,…

If you are of the Everything-Happens-for-a-Reason school, you might be saying “Oh, Mary Cheney’s pregnancy is designed to teach those frumpy Cheney parents and the Religious Right that it’s not immoral for gays to have kids.” Could be. But actually, I think Bush and Cheney have always been more personally tolerant on gay issues than…

Thanks to “MettaMusings” blogger/CM reader “Story Midwife” for writing about the parties she throws in honor of the seasonal darkness. “Ah, the nourishing dark. Though I cringe at the cold and snow of winter (not a helpful thing as I live in the chilly hills of Iowa), I am a darkness lover. Winter Solstice is…

Yes, Cindi, you’re right. Phillip-Morris is not producing those talk-to-your-kids-about-smoking ads out of the kindness of its heart. The company was forced to create those public service ads as part of a lawsuit settlement. Here are the opinions of one blogger who thinks the whole campaign could backfire since adolescents mostly try whatever their parents…
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