religion

Islamic Children’s Books

March 15, 2011




This is March, which for me means I am working 12 to 14 hour days. It is part of my balance over time, not every day philosophy and reality. That means that I don’t have as much time to blog, but don’t fret! I have several amazing guest bloggers lined up this month and will [...]

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Approaching Heaven, Mummies and Infinity

November 8, 2010




Once you let your children out of your sight, a magical thing happens: they learn things from other people. They come home and say a word you never taught them. They ask about a food you’ve never served. They treat you to a story or a song they learned somewhere else. They tell you about [...]

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Quotable: Religious and secular co-existence

August 30, 2010




As an agnostic humanist and mostly probably atheist, there are a lot of things about religion that I think are worth questioning. If there is anything I believe firmly, it is that everything is worth questioning, including religious beliefs and practices. That doesn’t mean that I dismiss all religions or religious people as being worthless [...]

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Christmas: a time for cookies, carols, cookies, and conflicting ideals

December 17, 2009




I’m taking a little bloggy vacation this week and letting you all be entertained by some of my favourite bloggers. This is a guest post by Arwyn from Raising My Boychick, whose blog I profiled here a while back. I am conflicted when it comes to Christmas. I sort of love it, with a passion [...]

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IComLeavWe: Day 4

November 24, 2009




This is day four of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on. Featured Post – Please don’t label me I loved this image featured in [...]

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IComLeavWe: Day 2

November 22, 2009




This is day two of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on. Featured post – Reasonable religion As many of my readers know, I am [...]

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Teaching Tolerance

March 21, 2009




I was reading Dale McGowan’s wonderful blog The Meming of Life last night and got caught up in his post on Glass Houses. In his post he talks about the importance of teaching his children that ideas need to earn respect, but people are inherently deserving of respect. I agree that this is an important [...]

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No Sinners in My House

November 10, 2008




We have made a careful and important decision to raise our children without religion. There are many many reasons for this, but I want to focus on one of them in my post today: sin. According to All About God: A definition of sin is doing what is wrong or not doing what is right [...]

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