Originally published in 2001. Many of you are familiar enough with my penchant for confrontation to understand that I was quite a presence at my ecumenical Protestant theological school, at which I regularly introduced myself in new classes as a post-Christian Pantheist Pagan UU and explained briefly what that meant. I was just trying to […]
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Originally published in 2003 It is an interesting analogy that [my colleague] provides, comparing the changing of words in a musical composition with changing images on a piece of visual art. As one who has published music, I am acutely aware of how it feels not to want my compositions to be messed with. In
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Originally published in 2003. This essay is in response to this statement by a colleague in the liturgical music community: “Music either has value or it doesn’t. I have spent my life in the belief that music is an art. It has value and should not be trivialized.” What is being addressed very little in
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Originally published in 2000. A couple years ago I shared with this list my journey of having been diagnosed with diabetes and the adjustments I was making. Over the months, I discovered that my blood-sugar levels were in the normal range and stopped treating myself, and when I moved to California, my doctor there said,
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THE NAMES OF KHRYSSO: A BIT OF BACKGROUND FOR THE FAERIE COMMUNITY First posted to the Radical Faerie e-list hosted by QueerNet.org, June 2000. I’ve told this story before, but it keeps evolving. My parents named me Christopher Robert Wagner. Christopher because I was born two weeks before Christmas and Robert after my
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Originally published in 2000. During my first year in college, I lived in the unique Stadium Scholarship Dormitory at The Ohio State University. The late lamented Stadium Dorm had been built into the very walls of Ohio Stadium, literally under the west bleachers, in a vast and esoteric network of halls, usually-windowless dorm-rooms that often
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Originally published in 2008 As I watched Barack Obama give his victory speech, I felt so proud of us, at least the 52% of us, who made this happen. His words made me hopeful for healing that can extend across the world. In the Frontline special The Choice: 2008, I learned Obama’s reasoning for one
Originally published in 2008. Been thinking a lot about the economic meltdown and my own poverty. Fact is, I’ve learned so well how to be poor that the global financial crisis isn’t affecting my lifestyle a whole lot—I’ve been surviving on next to nothing for so long that it doesn’t much matter if the world
Originally published in 2008. If you don’t want your sexuality brought into the analysis of the debate, then I advise not wearing your come-fuck-me pumps onstage. Sorry, evangelical “feminists.” The heels are fair game. You’re the moose-hunter, Gov. Palin—you know that success is all about exploiting the obvious. (Adult male moose can’t complain that hunters
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Originally published in 2008. Watching the 5:00 evening news and seeing that The Bailout passed the House (Need I have checked to verify that Deb Pryce voted for it? No, but I did anyway because I’m a responsible writer.), I realized that there might, theoretically, have been a bailout plan that I might have been
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