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October 2018

October 25, 2018

Spooky in the South: Morality, Divine Ethical Code or Social Construct?

Many would say morality is a set of rules dictated by a deity or deities...

November 2017

November 06, 2017

The Crow’s Nest: Hexing for a Good Cause

Hexing is a tool that can be used when all mundane options have been exhausted...

May 2017

May 07, 2017

Book Of Blackbirds: A Witch’s Tale

Magic always works better by cooperation than by force. In fact, trying to force magic...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Hills of the Horizon: Opet, Autumn, and the Wanderer

What does the common cultural motif of the god in disguise testing mortals' hospitality have...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: Reciprocity, Tit for Tat, and Vending Machine Religion

In my paganism and my personal practice, reciprocity is of utmost importance in thought and...

July 2016

July 05, 2016

Irish American Witchcraft: 21st Century Hex

Of all the lines that divide the modern pagan community none may be so sharply...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: How Do We Become Indigenous?

We are called to belong. Humans evolved from communally living apes, our closest relatives in...

April 24, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: Ethical Spiritual Intercession

In times of trouble, our own wishes, needs, hopes, and fears are easily conflated with...

April 06, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: Why We All Need Indigenous European Paganism

The Rev. Melissa Hill tackles issues of white privilege and the fear that modern European...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

Happily Heathen: Keep Your Virtues Out Of My Heathenry

When Heathens turn ideals into a weapon to tear down other Heathens, we’re being just...

March 22, 2016

Witch on Fire: Aphrodite’s Thealogy of Perfection

"In Perfect love and Perfect trust." I've come to appreciate this concept as one of...

December 2015

December 14, 2015

Star Made Witch: Living with Honor by Emma Restal Orr

O-Books offered up several titles for columnists to review this month and I selected Living...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

Happily Heathen: My Heathenry – What It Is, And What It Is Not

My Heathenry is a open-minded, thriving religion full of diverse points of view. How about...

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...

November 2014

November 07, 2014

The Zen Pagan: The Burners and the Pagans

All in all, there seems to be quite a bit of overlap between the values...

August 2014

August 02, 2014

Seekers and Guides: A Sticky Subject – Teaching Sex Magick (Part Three)

Sable continues to examine the ethics of teaching of sex magick and sacred sexuality by...

July 2014

July 21, 2014

Seekers and Guides: A Sticky Subject: Teaching Sex Magick (Part Two)

Sable Aradia continues her series on teaching sex magick by examining the nature of consent....

July 07, 2014

Seekers and Guides: A Sticky Subject – Teaching Sex Magick (Part One)

Sex magick and sacred sexuality are a traditional part of the Craft, but there are...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Seekers and Guides: Teaching Wiccan Values

What are the values that Wiccans believe in? Where do they come from, and how...

May 2014

May 02, 2014

Heathen Woman: Putting the Best Foot Forward

When we've violated our own principles, either consciously or even inadvertently, we become directly responsible...

April 2014

April 04, 2014

Heathen Woman: We Are Our Deeds

“We are our deeds.” How many times have you seen those words passed around in...

December 2013

December 27, 2013

Heathen Woman: Keeping Our Words Sacred

What makes honor so important? Why should we still be concerned with keeping our word...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

Wyrd Words: The “Agnostic Chair”

If there is one thing that every parent in the history of EVER can probably...

May 2013

May 15, 2013

Druid Thoughts: The Ethics of Divination

The future is not cast in stone. Just looking at it can change it. Thinking...

April 2012

April 06, 2012

Dear Jasmine: The Rede

Dear Jasmine, I am wondering about The Rede and “Harm None”, and how it works...