CUEW Triad

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TITLE:Sex and the Single God
LINK:http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/susan_brooks_thistlethwaite/2007/02/sex_and_the_single_god.html
EXCERPT:Sex is sacred in religions that regard nature and its cycles as the source of divine power. In this religious perspective, there are ordinarily many gods, not just one. Present-day Wicca would be one such example (though there are varieties of Wicca that worship a single goddess figure); archeological evidence suggests that most religion prior to the second millennium BCE was nature-centered and that sex was in some sense “sacred,” i.e. part of the work of the gods in maintaining fertility.
Comment: I guess she only need make sense when writing about Christianity.

TITLE:Pity Party
LINK:http://media.www.thejambar.com/media/storage/paper324/news/2007/02/13/Entertainment/Pity-Party-2716679.shtml
EXCERPT:Before it became a bastardized, Catholicized, watered down version of itself, Lupercalia was a purely Roman venture. Mythology holds that the twin brothers who founded Rome, Remus and Rolumus, were abandoned and found by a she-wolf who suckled them to health until a farmer adopted them.
More valentines stories:
http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/national/658974.html
http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?issue_date=02-14-2007&ID=2005114145
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/02/14/features/features002.txt
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=78b62109-5841-4b77-990d-183ddb1a7db2
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070214/OPINION04/702140348/1035/OPINION
http://www.lugazette.com/home/news/2007/02/14/Opinion/Chapys.Corner-2719366.shtml
http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_045194344.html
http://www.pressrepublican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070214/OPINION02/702140304

TITLE:Local Family Lands on TLC
LINK:http://www.duxburyclipper.com/1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2007-02-14&-token.story=62643.112114&-token.subpub=
EXCERPT:Last fall, the leader of the First Church of Wicca was approached about penning a book on pagan weddings and appearing on The Learning Channel's new series My Unique Family. Flash forward to February and Hovey has since sent her manuscript to the publisher, Adams Media, with a November release date, and next Monday, Feb. 19 at 10 p.m. her episode of My Unique Family, The Witches Next Door, will air.
COMMENT: Hoo-boy, reality TV. guaranteed to make even the most noble of families seem like idiots, and the idiots seem like....

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