Myrrh
Heaven is the Climax (PG-13)
You work hard, play hard…just to die at the end? Not if the God who created sex created life. The act of making love is enjoyable because it is building up to something greater than the process it takes to get there. The anticipation of how it will end is what makes it worth... »
The Case for A Sinful Nature, Take 2
The New York Times has done it again in How the Food Makers Captured Our Brains. Or maybe it’s just that I can’t help seeing spiritual metaphors in almost every story about human behavior. When I blogged The Allure of the Unlawful, it felt unfinished, so it was amusingly serendipitous that another NYT article... »
Heroines or Hypocrites?
Out with evangelical media spokespeople Falwell and Dobson, in with Palin and Prejean. Am I the only one who doesn’t see this as an improvement? It’s a shame the evangelical everyman (or woman) can’t get fair representation. Finally the press moves the spotlight off the dying (if not dead) old guard religious right white... »
The Allure of the Unlawful
Bar? What Bar? describes how the speakeasy is making a comeback in underground hot spots in metropolitan areas. Retro is all the rage, and what better to mix with a recession cocktail than a splash of prohibition? Except that when the Great Depression was at its worst, spirits were lifted when the 18th amendment... »
