Coyote Crossing

Solar Gold: The Ivanpah Spirit Run (video)

Filmmaker Robert Lundahl joined us at the Ivanpah Spirit Run last weekend. This is the result. Edited among images and interviews with Spirit Run participants are snippets of a longer interview with Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center

The real truth about heaven

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The Rainbow Bridge ain’t nothing but a hunk of rock in Utah

PZ has a brief item up with a one-sentence review of books about how pets go to heaven, and Orac has a sad anniversary today, and both got me thinking about something I wrote that until now lived on only in the Wayback Machine Archive, which is

The Cross thief speaks

Morongo Bill and Scott Fajack have alerted me to a new development. Looks like I may have spoken unfairly as to the character of the person who took the Sunrise Rock cross from its site in the Mojave National Preserve. The Barstow Desert Dispatch

The Mojave Cross

The boxed-up cross on Sunrise Rock, Mojave National Preserve. Photo by Florian Boyd.

As far as I can determine from reading the decision [PDF], and contrary to what’s being widely reported today in the case of the Mojave Cross on Cima Dome, the

Einstein forsakes Coyote

“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be

Repent!

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This I believe

In the email this morning:

Please forgive me for bringing up a name you might rather forget. I was just searching Stephen Morin’s name on Google and came across an article you wrote in April 2005. In it you were understandably skeptical about

Homily

“‘But Lord’, I said, ‘Why is there only one set of footprints on the beach during the times when I was in the most sorrow?’

‘Because,’ The Lord said gently, ‘Those times were when you realized that I am just the reified superstitious construct of