Musings of a Quaker Witch (Pagan Quaker)

There's a total lunar eclipse tonight! Details, including diagrams for different time zones, are available on NASA's Eclipse page ....

Here's an article in the NY Times about local, small-scale dairies. (Free registration required.) I still remember the first times I ...

We recently got a programmable thermostat , something I've wanted for quite a while to save on our heating bill. When I asked our landl...

Good news: Nebraska's Supreme Court has outlawed use of the electric chair. For the AP newswire story, click here .

National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation had a segment on Science Friday today on this very topic. For more info, including links ...

I've long been dubious about the promise of biofuels, particularly ethanol (I have real concerns about corn, for example). There's ...

Breaking the Silence Exhibit Israeli Soldiers Talk about the Occupied Territories Philadelphia February 9-24 at the Rotunda 40th & Walnu...

In the summer of 2002, I went to Israel-Palestine for several weeks, as part of two different peace witness delegations. One of those was w...

This is stuck in my head; it's from the Catie Curtis song " What's the Matter ": What if I am Black or Jew straight or qu...

from FLGBTQC's Mid-Winter Gathering Planning Committee: IT'S NOT TOO LATE... to register for the 2008 FLGBTQC Mid-Winter Gathering!!...

Note: This piece appears in the February 2008 Ann Arbor Friends Meeting Newsletter. I’d like you to try an experiment as you read this: •...

I highly recommend this article, from the January 2008 issue of Friends Journal: "Separation of Church and State," by George L. Al...

For a while, I've been wanting to start using labels for some of the themes in this blog. The ones that originally made the most sense ...

I've been noticing a few things lately that I wanted to share: - It used to be that on days when I left the house at 8 am, it was still ...

On this 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , there's a bitter battle still raging over access to abortion in the US -- and indeed, many oth...

Note in my Book of Shadows, from a Meeting for Worship back in November: ........................... If I have to contort myself spiritually...

One of the reasons being a Pagan, being a Witch, works for me is because of science. For me, science is a way to continue to get to know th...

Click here for a lovely and interesting interview with Quaker historian and author Margaret Hope Bacon, by FGC staff member Angelina Conti....

I held my nose and voted. And I had a surprisingly strong emotional reaction to the whole situation: the choices in front of me, the choices...

Okay, I realize there is no Constitutional guarantee to a primary vote. In fact, there were no presidential primary elections as such in the...