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August 2018

August 05, 2018

An Overview of My Life and the Craft

I did appreciate Jason Mankey listing me yesterday as one of the most influential living...

May 2017

May 27, 2017

Minnesota: Triskellion Wicca

Triskellion is a tradition that incorporates classical Wiccan (Gardnerian and Alexandrian) theology with magical discipline....

May 20, 2017

New York Gardnerians: Judith Harrow (1946-2014)[1]

At Samhain 1976, Judy Harrow attended her first Wiccan circle and knew that she had...

May 13, 2017

New York: Blue Star Tradition

The early days of the Blue Star tradition.

May 06, 2017

OH to NY to AL: Claude Lawrence Cornett

Larry Cornett has worked tirelessly on and for the Craft for almost 40 years. The...

May 02, 2017

About Naming Ostara, Litha, and Mabon

Over the years people have wanted to argue with me about which Sabbat Mabon should...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

A Tapestry of Witches II: The Alexandrians

This is an excerpt from A Tapestry of Witches: A History of the Craft in...

April 29, 2017

A Tapestry of Witches II: Lady Pythia and the Witchmage Tradition

Lady Pythia provides an interesting example of the fact that many covens who reinvented the...

April 28, 2017

A Tapestry of Witches II: Circle and the Midwest Pagan Council

A history of Pagan goings-on in the Midwest, including Circle Sanctuary and the Midwest Pagan...

April 27, 2017

Announcing: Previews of A Tapestry of Witches, Vol. II

Now that I have finished Part I of my autobiography—it is being vetted by a...

August 2016

August 21, 2016

Agnostic Jewish Paganism—and Other New Religions

Yes, I am all three of those; how I define them makes them compatible. That...

August 02, 2016

Some Instructions to Follow

When my Ethics class was about to get to the unit on Virtue Ethics, I...

July 2016

July 17, 2016

Diana, Bathing

Soon after my abrupt and spectacular expulsion from being a Catholic at age 14, I...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

But When I’m Talking to a Nazi, I Have No Doubt that I’m Jewish

In response to a blog I posted a while back entitled, “So Am I Jewish?”...

April 2016

April 23, 2016

The Art of Creating Religion. Part I

I am willing to entertain the nondisprovable hypothesis that our religions are inspired by the...

November 2014

November 16, 2014

Reconnecting, Perhaps, with the Radical Left

Somehow Melinda got sent an invite to the Tacoma Free Skool's first organizing meeting. Since...

September 2014

September 03, 2014

“I Fell in Love with a Witch”: The Vision of Gerald Gardner

Some people argue that Gardnerians cannot claim to have the right to do something merely...

September 03, 2014

A Note on the Creating of Religion

I know Philip Heselton hoped to find (but did not assume that he would) evidence...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Rebirth Among Those You Love

Gardner asserts in Witchcraft Today that belief in reincarnation was preserved by the witch covens...

May 28, 2014

A Report on Life and Writing

I’m 73, and have been writing since about age ten. I live in Tacoma with...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

A Tapestry of Witches: A History of the Craft in America, Volume I is now available on Amazon

It was not easy figuring out how to write this book. The chronological structure (the...

March 2014

March 02, 2014

Of Breasts (Redux) and the Foundations of Ethics

My previous blog elicited more negative than positive comments. Allowing for the fact that one...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Retrieving the Myth of Jesus and Sophia, Part II

Understanding what the actual theology of the classical Gnostics was about depends on understanding what...

November 15, 2013

The United States Has Always Been a Pagan, Socialist Nation, Part II

In Part One I presented an argument that the USA began as a socialist nation....

November 10, 2013

The United States Has Always Been a Pagan, Socialist Nation

A viable balance between politics and religion is as difficult to achieve and maintain as...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

Goddess Murder, 23: Ambushed

XXV. Ambushed He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. William Blake Back from the...

October 05, 2013

Goddess Murder, 21. Aquinas

XXIII. Aquinas The mind of the world is Zeus, and all things are besoul’d and...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

On the Nature of Gender

What set this blog off was my weeping with joy for Cassidy Campbell. Seeing how...

September 15, 2013

In Memory of Allan Lowe / Demian Moonbloode

Artemisia phoned me yesterday morning to let me know that Allan had passed over, because,...

September 09, 2013

Goddess Murder, 17: Eddie’s First Circle

XIX. First Circle Going Skyclad Of course the first thing I want to do...

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