Author Archives: Andrew Stuttaford

The Limitlessness of Self-Importance

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Plus a little victimhood by proxy… A Pagan Soccer Mom writes: Friday, September 21 has been declared Covered in Light International Day. This event has been started by the group Covered in Light, a group of Pagan/Polytheist women who choose … Continue reading →

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Bewitched

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Guernica, another reminder of the permanence of superstition, the reinvention of the past (the Goddess?) and the magpie “spirituality” of the West: Photographer Katarzyna Majak shoots her subjects in vivid color, posing each one as a healer, a goddess, … Continue reading →

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A Question of Identity (ctd)

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

More on this story (from the Guardian): Proposals to draft ultra-Orthodox men into the Israeli army, ending an exemption that has lasted for 64 years, are bitterly dividing prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition government ahead of a crucial debate on … Continue reading →

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Against the Hotel/Porn Axis

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via the Daily Mail: A Christian scholar and a Muslim leader have teamed up to ask hotel chain[s] to stop offering pay-per-view porn. Robert P. George, Princeton University professor and former chairman of the Christian group the National Organization for … Continue reading →

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Abdus Salam

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Writing in the Spectator, Shiraz Maher suggests (correctly, surely) that most people are unlikely to have heard about Pakistan’s contribution to the discovery of the Higgs Boson, and explains why that is just fine with Pakistan: … Continue reading →

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Treating Woo-Woo

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Jules Evans over-worries: I had evangelists either side of me at dinner. The woman on my right was beautiful, charming and, technically speaking, psychotic. I mean that in the nicest possible way. Her eyes grew wide as she told me … Continue reading →

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Don’t Confuse the Children!

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Commenter Kevin S. kindly responded to my earlier posting on Bobby Jindal’s voucher program with a link to this Reuters story. It’s worth paying some attention. An extract: Louisiana’s plan is by far the broadest. This month, eligible families, including … Continue reading →

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The Placenta of the Earth has been Ruptured!

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

From the Baccalaureate address at Stanford University by Joan Chittister, the Benedictine Catholic sister, author and (to quote the God’s Politics blog) “social justice stalwart”: The ozone layer, the placenta of the earth, has been ruptured. The polar ice cap … Continue reading →

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Whoops!

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Former exorcist and current Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has (to quote the Friendly Atheist) “pushed for a voucher program that would allow state funds to be used to pay for religious schools.” The Friendly Atheist is not so keen on … Continue reading →

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In the Beginning

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Much as I am not a fan of the public nuisance better known as Karen Armstrong, the opening two paragraphs of a review she has written for the FT today caught my eye: Over the course of his long, distinguished … Continue reading →

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