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July 2019

July 17, 2019

Hail From the Hearth: My Heathen-Christian Interfaith Wedding

Coming together as a couple means that very candid and in-depth discussions must be had....

October 2018

October 29, 2018

Hail From the Hearth: An Evening for Dying – Celebrating Winternights

Winternights is one of the Heathen high days that observes the beginning of Winter and...

August 2018

August 20, 2018

21st Century Viking: Get Thee to a Nunnery

This is a topic that is often talked about in the Heathen community but rarely...

March 2017

March 10, 2017

Farewell, ‘Till we Meet Again

A few words of advice and inspiration for my fellow Heathens, before I go: only...

February 2017

February 10, 2017

Happily Heathen: Heathen Events at PantheaCon 2017

Convention season has started, an the first one up is PantheaCon, the largest indoor pan-Pagan...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Happily Heathen: The Aftereffects of Meeting a Goddess

People who don’t love themselves are unprepared for a meeting with Freya. If given chance,...

January 13, 2017

Happily Heathen: Missing Your Gods? Maybe You’ve Left Them

If I have lost my connection to my gods—or if I just feel I’ve lost...

December 2016

December 09, 2016

Happily Heathen: Know Your Lore – Why Freyr Won Gerd

Freyr is married to the jotun maiden Gerd, but do you know how or why....

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 25, 2016

Happily Heathen: The Generosity of the Vanir Gods

All of the Norse Gods are gift-givers, but the Vanir Gods really shine in this...

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...

November 11, 2016

Happily Heathen: The All Gods Event

The All Gods Event is a ritual I created a few years ago when I...

October 2016

October 07, 2016

Happily Heathen: Winternights — The Heathen Samhain?

Winternights is one of my favorite holidays. I love when summer finally gives way to...

September 2016

September 23, 2016

Happily Heathen: My Heathenry

The recent discussions around definition and limitations in Heathenry got me thinking about my own...

September 09, 2016

Happily Heathen: Dealing with Discrimination – What’s An Inclusive Heathen Supposed To Do?

I’ve been Heathen since 1999. In that time, I’ve been to a lot of Heathen...

September 07, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: Who’s Responsible for Speaking Out Against the AFA

Paganism is a Eurocentric thing. Non-european indigenous religions seem to prefer not to be called...

September 06, 2016

Irish-American Witchcraft: Álfatrú – Believing in the Hidden Folk

Labels are always a fun game to play in Paganism, Polytheism, Heathenry, what-have-you. Within the...

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 31, 2016

A Lakeside Hearth: Organized or Independent?

No matter what you do in Heathenry, you're doing it wrong. Heathen practice is wide...

August 26, 2016

Happily Heathen: Freyr Isn’t Going to Bless those PopTarts

Today I was preserving some peaches I received from a local farmer, and it occurred...

August 12, 2016

Happily Heathen: Receiving The Blessings

Blessings can take many forms and come from many places. Make sure to claim your...

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....

July 2016

July 22, 2016

Happily Heathen: Healing Old Wounds at a New Ancestor’s Grave

Families aren’t perfect. Not everyone in a family likes or agrees with one another, and...

July 19, 2016

Irish-American Witchcraft: Book Review – Runes Plain and Simple

Runes Plain and Simple by Kim Farnell isn't a new book -- its a 2016...

July 08, 2016

Happily Heathen: Know Your Lore – Deconstructing the Brisingamen Myth

To many modern Heathens, Brisingamen is Freya's beautiful necklace, made of gold or amber or...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

A Lakeside Hearth: Thinking about the Future

I’ve seen this scenario play out on internet forums a few times now. A Pagan...

June 26, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: A Ritual in Honor of Odin and the Valkyries

We are in a period of intense and tense struggle. There are many battles behind...

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 10, 2016

Happily Heathen: Beauty, Sex, and Sexuality in the Viking Age

Religious and spiritual beliefs to not happen in a vacuum; they are always influences by...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

A Lakeside Hearth: Looking Inwards

There are numerous conflicts in modern Pagan practices. When they do spill over, the conversation...