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December 2016

December 01, 2016

Wyrd Words: Challenging The Rhetoric

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays here on Agora! Recently...

November 2016

November 17, 2016

Wyrd Words: World Wide Heathenry – A Global Heathen Demographic Survey

Heathenry is an increasingly visible form of spirituality in the modern world yet not much...

September 2016

September 15, 2016

Wyrd Words: The Real Story Behind ‘Camp Courage’ And The AFA

Many Heathens awoke on the morning of September 2nd to the news that the Asatru...

September 01, 2016

Wyrd Words: Did the Vikings Have Totem Animals?

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, here on Agora! There's...

August 2016

August 04, 2016

Wyrd Words: What is Valhalla, and Who Goes There?

Many aspects in our tradition end up getting oversimplified into easy to swallow 'Christianized' binaries....

June 2016

June 12, 2016

Wyrd Words: Orlando, Islam, and Glass Houses

Most of America woke up to some pretty disturbing news this morning. At 2 am....

June 02, 2016

Wyrd Words: Building a Kindred

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, every other week...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

Wyrd Words: It’s The Simple Things

Sometimes we need to set aside the heavier burdens of deep philosophical questioning and social...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Wyrd Words: Vikings in the New World

There’s been quite a buzz going about the Heathen community about the three "newly discovered"...

April 08, 2016

Wyrd Words: A Reconstructionist Argument For Inclusive Heathenry

Viking Lore makes a pretty clear case; not just for tolerating the existence of others,...

March 2016

March 03, 2016

Wyrd Words: Why I’m tired of Heathenry’s F.U. Debate

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, every other week...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Wyrd Words: Is Heathenry Incomplete?

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, every other week...

December 2015

December 03, 2015

Wyrd Words: Odin’s Greatest Enemy, Depression in a Heathen Context

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, every other...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

Wyrd Words: We Are Our Deeds

There’s this unfortunate tendency in Pagan circles for those holding the title of ‘Elder’ to...

October 2015

October 15, 2015

Wyrd Words: Feminism in Heathenry

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, here on Agora!...

October 01, 2015

Wyrd Words: Cultural Appropriation and Pagan Fear

If little Suzy wants to go up onto a mountain top, burn some sage, and...

September 2015

September 03, 2015

Wyrd Words: Prayer

Prayer is one of those contentious topics in the Heathen community that often stirs up...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Why I am Still a Heathen

Patheos is doing a summer series called “Future of Faith in America”. The Pagan channel's...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

Juggling Babies

I love the old legends, and find inspiration in the stories of the gods. However,...

July 02, 2015

Wyrd Words: Grief and Renewal

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, here on Agora!...

June 2015

June 04, 2015

Wyrd Words: Life Has a Way of Happening…

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, every other week...

April 2015

April 16, 2015

Wyrd Words: Heathen Leadership

We have a glut of ‘priests’ and not enough accountants. So many teachers, and so...

March 2015

March 19, 2015

Wyrd Words: Tragedy in Mesa

Yesterday afternoon, less than two miles away from my own home, five people were wounded...

March 05, 2015

Wyrd Words: Pagan Life Lessons – Adaptability

Our community can be very opinionated. Everybody who has ever bothered to peruse the Pagan...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Wyrd Words: Pagan Life Lessons – Strength

Today we will be continuing with part 3 of our newest series: “Pagan Life Lessons”....

January 2015

January 22, 2015

Wyrd Words: Pagan Life Lessons – Sacrifice

How can we focus on our life goals when life itself seems bound and determined...

January 08, 2015

Wyrd Words: Pagan Life Lessons – Hope

The old ways are just as much about personal revelations as they are interpersonal relations....

December 2014

December 25, 2014

Wyrd Words: Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! The day in which we eat copious amounts of Chinese food, go to...

December 11, 2014

Wyrd Words: Being A Pagan Father

Holy crap I'm going to be a father. Holy Crap I'm Going To Be A...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

Wyrd Words: Look Mom! We’re on T.V!

I had high hopes for ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I was excited to see...