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GodsBigBlog: What Ever Happened to God?

January 10, 2012 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

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Wondering what happened to God — and the category GodsBigBlog?

The category is now called My Rocky Spiritual Journey. It will feature stories about some of the people I’ve met along the way as a religion reporter. Also stories about authors like Huston Smith, Pope Benedict and Marcus Borg.

I’ll be including  my own reflections on . . . well . . . just about everything from the rocks that litter the Yosemite Valley to the wind poppies that bloomed so briefly in my front yard last spring.

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I want to write about tulips today. I don’t want to write about sex. The trouble is, for me, writing about tulips means writing about sex: something about their juicy curves brings erotic metaphors to my particular mind. I had thought that once my mother — and father — were no longer alive and reading over my shoulder, I’d be able to write my heart out, but . . . Read more.

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