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Posted Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m.
Dispatch from the War on Christmas: Atheists make fools of themselves in Olympia while violence breaks out at Wal-Mart. The sacred season is now a very, very sick season.
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Posted Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m.
Dispatch from the War on Christmas: Atheists make fools of themselves in Olympia while violence breaks out at Wal-Mart. The sacred season is now a very, very sick season.
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Posted Thu, Nov 20, midnight
Electing a black president has caused a rise in hate crimes, but no one is less popular than Godless blowhards.
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Posted Tue, Nov 18, 6 a.m.
Our Zen gardener suggests the path of dana paramita, a voluntary giving of one's wisdom, time, or assistance.
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Posted Fri, Nov 7, midnight
In the wake of the historic 2008 election, a conservative blogger asks: To what degree is President-elect Obama's victory a mandate for the changes he will attempt to make?
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Posted Thu, Nov 6, midnight
Our Zen gardener gets a nudge to visit the Portland Japanese Garden and finds five gardens in one.
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Posted Thu, Oct 30, midnight
Both the burgeoning church and an (unrelated) graduate school provide a perspective on how postmodern Christian movement churches are striking up conversations — and sparks — with mainstream culture.
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Posted Fri, Oct 24, midnight
If God wants to join the political debate over assisted suicide, he should expect a bloody nose.
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Posted Tue, Oct 7, 3 a.m.
Making arrowheads, tossing spears, wandering old homesteads, and studying petroglyphs: All are part of a Washington state program designed to ensure that material progress doesn't completely obliterate the past. Part 1
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Posted Tue, Oct 7, 3 a.m.
If you're not growing garlic, you should think about it, and here's why.
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Posted Thu, Sep 18, 3 a.m.
Washington state voters must soon make up their minds about I-1000, a measure supporting physician-assisted suicide, which appears on the ballot this November. Former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts championed a similar law in her home state and supports I-1000. Here's a look at the results of Oregon's law, passed in 1997, and the issues surrounding it.
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Posted Sun, Sep 14, 4 p.m.
A new minister lays plans for revitalizing Seattle's First United Methodist Church, temporarily homeless after moving from a crumbling downtown landmark. Saving mainline downtown churches is far from easy, but Rev. Sanford Brown thinks he has a formula, derived from serving the Belltown neighborhood.
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Posted Thu, Aug 28, 3 a.m.
Dave Edler of Yakima is an unusual politician in a bastion of conservatism.
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Posted Mon, Jul 7, midnight
It's really quite simple: A lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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Posted Thu, Jun 26, 5 a.m.
Geri Larkin's latest book is like your neighbor's undisciplined garden, a little too rambunctious at times, but filled with moments that will appeal to both gardeners and those looking for a little enlightenment.
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Posted Sun, Jun 22, 11 p.m.
The building designed by the acclaimed Japanese architect would be donated by an Eastside arts patron, Barney Ebsworth. A site has been found, but it will take an economic recovery to fund it. Seattle tried but failed to land the prize.
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Posted Tue, Jun 10, 9 p.m.
A chaplain whose pioneering work to end homelessness is recognized worldwide shares the story of encountering the limits of the city's mental health system.
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Posted Tue, Jun 3, 5 a.m.
A University of Washington prof interviewed 450 members of liberal and evangelical Christian churches in the Pacific Northwest. His mission: to understand the "clash of cultures" between two sides of the same tradition.
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Posted Thu, May 29, 3 p.m.
A management consultant-turned Zen teacher plays sidekick to Seattle's inveterate plant-promoter and finds inspiration in a Venus flytrap.
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Posted Tue, Apr 29, 5 a.m.
A journalist comes of age with Bruce Chapman, watching him launch Seattle's Discovery Institute and the intelligent design movement.
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Posted Sun, Apr 13, 11 p.m.
Coverage of the Dalai Lama's visit suggests a way Seattle newspapers can get out of their funk: try boosting our spirit.
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So a new study finds, and so a stimulating magazine discusses.
MOREPosted Fri, Dec 5, 9 a.m. 2008
Go ahead, cut that tree, and feel good about your environmental footprint.
MOREPosted Thu, Nov 20, 6:30 a.m. 2008
Our religious impulses toward the wilderness could be boosted by the way our brains work.
MOREPosted Tue, Nov 18, 11:02 p.m. 2008
Some of the secrets of Norwegian Seattle revealed.
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One blue tucked up against another blue makes artists of us all.
MOREPosted Wed, Oct 8, 3:19 a.m. 2008
George Eighmey, the father of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, spoke yesterday at a conference in Yakima, and concluded his very sober presentation with two stories, both about his experiences sitting with patients just before they died from lethal medication. Physician-assisted suicide is legal in Oregon, and in case you missed it, it's on the ballot this election here in Washington state.
MOREPosted Wed, Sep 24, 4 p.m. 2008
As I remember it, the first meltdown happened somewhere around 1993. I had been practicing hard, getting up at 4 a.m. to meditate before driving my daughter to early morning swim practice and then heading into a manual labor job that sucked up the next ten to twelve hours. Maybe it was exhaustion and not spiritual maturity that caused this: In the middle of a sitting, I started crying hard because I suddenly realized the enormity of the damage we are doing to the earth. Having no idea what to do with the grief, I went to my teacher. "Go plant a tree" was his response. If it's the last day of your life, plant a tree. If it isn't, plant a tree. If it's the last day of the earth's life, plant a tree.
MOREPosted Wed, Sep 24, 10:07 a.m. 2008
Words often have powerful meaning, and the debate over terminology used in a ballot measure and in news reports could well determine the fate of Washington's Initiative 1000, known by its supporters as "death with dignity" and by critics and some in the media as "physician-assisted suicide" or simply "assisted suicide."
MOREPosted Wed, Sep 10, 3:52 a.m. 2008
A good friend of mine is living in the "in-between." He is in between jobs. In between housing. In between lifestyles. I was happy to offer him my little monk's transition room, a sparsely furnished bedroom, as an interim resting place while the various aspects of his life work themselves out.
MOREPosted Thu, Aug 28, 4 a.m. 2008
The lessons of one mistake can be endless. When I try to walk through a public park just about anywhere in the Northwest, I wonder about that Englishman who thought importing starlings to the United States would give us a more Shakespearian atmosphere.
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