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Entries Tagged as 'Spirituality'

Roundup: Monkey in the Bathroom Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 6th, 2007 at 3:39 pm

I can’t scrape together enough time at the moment to do OcPot’s usual painstakingly well-rounded roundup — I’m seeing The Waterboys at the Park West tonight, woo-hoo! — but I wanted to get some of these links up before they fossilized. So here’s a charmingly slapdash, quick-and-dirty roundup. In ripped fishnet and high heels.

The always-eloquent […]

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On The Christians and The Gays, and Keeping the Flock Together

Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 15th, 2007 at 3:27 am

So there was a new study written up this past week, supplying evidence that young people in America are rejecting Christianity because they see it as “hypocritical, judgmental, and anti-gay.”
The vast majority of non-Christians — 91% — said Christianity had an anti-gay image, followed by 87% who said it was judgmental and 85% who said […]

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Yvonne Zipter: “A Canine Metaphysics”

Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 1st, 2007 at 7:18 pm

As a sort of spiritual antidote to the horrible Michael Vicks dogfighting story, here’s a lovely poem by Chicago poet Yvonne Zipter (shared here with her permission). It’s from Yvonne’s most recent chapbook, Like Some Bookie God, which came out last year.
A Canine Metaphysics
In his meditative moments —
nose to the air or head resting
on […]

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