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August 2012

August 19, 2012

Turning Point, Part I

[This is how my autobiography will begin. It took quite a while to realize that,...

August 18, 2012

Aeolian Transformations II

4. Lovesong I don't wonder some blamed you For coming to me when you shouldn't....

August 18, 2012

AEolian Transformations

[I guess trying to put my almanac project on this blog wasn't a great idea....

August 12, 2012

A National Church for Witches: A Brief History of COG, Part II

A Pagan Almanac for August 12, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Day 6 of the waning Moon...

August 11, 2012

A National Church for Witches: A Brief History of the Covenant of the Goddess

A Pagan Almanac for August 9-11, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Days 9 to 7 of the...

August 08, 2012

A New Ballad of Thomas the Rhymer

A Pagan Almanac for August 7 & 8, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Tenth day of the...

August 06, 2012

“Notes Toward the Possibility of Founding a New Religion”

A Pagan Almanac for August 5 and 6, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Days 8 and 9...

August 04, 2012

The Craft Is Actually Hard Work, If You’re Serious

A Pagan Almanac for August 3 and 4, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Days 6 and 7...

August 02, 2012

Jesus, No, but Joshua’s a Different Story

A Pagan Almanac for August 1 & 2, 2012 Lunar Cycle: August 1 -- Fourth...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Survival or New Creation?

A Pagan Almanac for July 29-31, 2012 Lunar cycle: July 29, First day of the...

July 23, 2012

Some Aphorisms

A Pagan Almanac for July 23, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Fifth day of the waxing Moon...

July 22, 2012

Looking for the Craft, Part II

A Pagan Almanac: July 21, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Third day of the waxing Moon Rome:...

July 20, 2012

Looking for the Craft

______________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Pagan Almanac for July 20, 2012 Lunar Cycle: Second day of the waxing...

July 19, 2012

A Pagan Almanac: Day One

A Pagan Almanac for July 19, 2012 Lunar cycle: Day 1, first crescent Rome: The...

July 17, 2012

The Three-Dimensional Structure of the Pagan Movement

In writing about the history of the Craft, I have been often perplexed about how...

July 16, 2012

What Is a Witch?

I am not silly enough to suppose that everyone, or even a majority among Witches,...

July 11, 2012

Five Canticles of Wisdom

0 In the beginning, there is no beginning: There is only the Goddess, and Her...

July 08, 2012

Another Three Pagan Poems

Morgana at her Vanity (for Erif) Damp from the chastening water, She oils her skin,...

July 03, 2012

Homage to Kropotkin

Whenever I get to teach a philosophy course, I think of a way to talk...

July 01, 2012

Three Pagan Poems

After that last series of essays, I will just lighten up a little. On...

June 2012

June 30, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part VI: Religion as Ecstasy

The woman whom I named Lilith has been my friend for more than forty years...

June 29, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part V: Toward the Divine Sexuality

In one of the preceding essays, I said that a totally committed couple, in the...

June 28, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part IV: The Logical Consequences of the First Commandment

The “First Commandment” under discussion here is not that in the Decalogue, but the one...

June 27, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part III: Prolegomena to Some Theology About Sexuality

In the original essay that I am reworking in these blogs, at this point I...

June 26, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part II: Origins of the Sistine Heresy

When I was teaching church history at Holy Family College in the early 1980s, I...

June 22, 2012

An Evolutionary Model for New Religious Movements

I proposed a few days ago that all religions begin as new religions. Let’s look...

June 20, 2012

About Conversion

In a recent blog about the conversion of one of Patheos’s bloggers, Lise (hey, Lise!...

June 17, 2012

All Religions Begin as New Religions

All religions have at least one foundational myth as well as an actual history. The...

June 15, 2012

Thirteen Suggestions for Parents

1. If you don’t want your son to lie, don’t punish him for telling the...

June 14, 2012

Of Holidays and Riddles

Rummaging through the boxes of books still stored out in the garage, I came across...

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