Soul's Code

Ever wonder how bunny eggs, death and resurrection fit together?  A pagan history of  the goddess, and how the church stole Easter
GUEST COLUMN: DANNY KENNY — Ever since I was an angelic little boy, there are many reasons why I've always loved Easter. But I would no longer be angelic in good Irish Catholic [...]

Our resident pagan, Danny Kenny, reviews the reviewers:  Sarlo's Guru Ratings, Spiritual Teachers and Peter's Pages — or as he calls them, 'the unholy trinity'
BY DANNY KENNY — It's such a simple step to go cynical. But Holy-ocity! — "handicapping" spiritual teachers, guides and gurus like race horses? That's called bad form.
In these times, many [...]

On the first anniversary of Obama's inauguration, we decode the rookie president's Jesus myth. A top 10 list of the differences between the two saviors
SOUL'S CODE — Here, we come to the aid of all spell-bound Americans who, with the help of the media and Soul's Code itself, once blurred the lines between Obama and [...]

Is Tom Cruise the Messiah? [SF Gate]
God's Stoner prophet [Slate]
Archangel Gabriel guided my life [Beliefnet]
'Urban Monk' program offers 'orgasmic living' [Whole Life Times]

Mark your Calendars for LDS Endowment
A site called Hot Mormon Muffins has created an attention getting calendar picturing luscious Mormon moms in appealing poses, after the style of 1950s pin-up artist Joyce Ballantyne.  The idea is to be a “vehicle to create dialog and deliberately debunk the subservient stereotypes of women’s roles within the Mormon Church.”  Note [...]

We may be one consciousness but Mary Roach's Bonk details in naturalistic glory how we are also 6 billion runny noses and rumbling stomachs
GUEST COLUMN: AMY LEASK — I’m on my third book by Mary Roach and I’m riveted. It’s called Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, and it’s a very graphic account [...]

The platypus, a baboon's behind, and The Housewives Tarot prove that the universe has a wild sense of humour
 GUEST COLUMN: AMY LEASK — As an undergrad, I took an English seminar on women and nature, which included a number of traditional stories from Canada’s "First Nations" communities. Eyebrows went up when we were assigned a [...]

From deadbeat dads to the middle initial "H" . . . our Top 10 reasons why Obama and Jesus are, in *deed*, the same person
SOUL'S CODE — When Freud coined the term, transference, he used it to describe the unconscious projection we have about a parent, or some other childhood figure, onto a lover, boss [...]

When Republicans look at Bill Maher, they see Lucifer. Democrats see a comic genius. We saw Religulous to escape election withdrawal
BY TERJE FOKSTUEN — As funny as he is, Bill Maher is a cerebral type who lives in his head — at the expense of his heart. He's missing enough in the soul-department that I [...]

GUEST COLUMN: DAVID RICKEY
It's common to pray for people's health, and we've even heard of believers petitioning God for everything from rain to the winning touchdown. So when Soul's Code heard about the group, Pray at the Pump, we weren't entirely surprised. Freaked out by the super-spike in oil prices, they have staged vigils [...]