Posts Tagged ‘catholic’
Ashes to dishes
In the spirit of my recent post about the Catholic’s Church’s edict against keeping or spreading of the ashes of loved ones comes Justin Crowe’s Nourish dinnerware, made from the remains of over 200 people. More specifically: “Nourish is a dinnerware series designed to infuse a sense of mortality into everyday moments. It was made…
Read MoreCatholics should be able to scatter their ashes wherever they damn well please.
My wife once said that amongst the many noble reasons that I became a teacher, it was also because I don’t like to be told what to do. This has never occurred to me before, but she’s probably right. Teachers spend most of their day deciding how and when and what they will do. There…
Read MoreA simple geographic reminder to those overly insistent, overly-aggressive people of faith
When someone becomes overly insistent and overly aggressive about the truth behind their deeply held religious beliefs, I like to remind them that their deeply held religious beliefs are almost certainly predicated upon geography. For the vast majority of people, religious belief simply correlates to where they spent most of their childhood. It is not…
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