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April 2017

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...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

On Metamethodology in Religious Studies: For John Morehead

John, I very much appreciate your calm and well-informed response to my earlier blog entitled...

July 2016

July 31, 2016

Why I Am Thoroughly Pissed Off at Jill Stein

It’s really because of my mother. I have told parts of her story before; I...

July 11, 2016

The Gospels Are Inherently Anti-Semitic. Deal With It.

Mark was a literary genius. He invented the “gospel” as a new literary genre. That...

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...

February 2016

February 22, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part I

The subgenre of philosophy called epistemology is concerned with what we know—or think we know—and...

February 14, 2016

Sam Wagar’s The Uses of Ecstasy is a masterpiece

It is easily one of the ten most important books ever written about the Craft...

January 2016

January 01, 2016

Announcing: Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage

Finally, after 45 years of working on the raw materials, and twenty of thinking of...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

About Fragments as Materials for Art

Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage, which I have now released through the...

November 13, 2015

Announcing: Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage

It’s done. After 45 years of working on the materials that went into it, it’s...

April 2015

April 18, 2015

Lenin, State and Revolution, the One Percent, and Me

In June of 1963, I wrote my first Goddess ritual, for the wedding of my...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

War Against Women: Empower the Victims

I am heartened by the Swedes: they have decriminalized the selling of sex; have made...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

Trekking Toward Nineveh, Mile One

I have finally, step by step, been forced to realize what I must do. Since...

May 2014

May 11, 2014

What If Witches Are the Genuine Christians? — Goddess Murder II

I had completed much more writing linked to my Goddess Murder project, and it was...

April 2014

April 12, 2014

Interpreting the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife”

There have been many news stories reporting that the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” is as...

March 2014

March 22, 2014

How Atheism Kills Students

I’m sure that got your attention. I mean only a certain kind of atheism: if...

January 2014

January 11, 2014

Understanding the Divine Is Always Personal

I believe a primary agenda of the Divine is to protect our free will, our...

December 2013

December 15, 2013

Why Is Sex a Problem at All? The Poison of Puritanism

Why don’t human beings just have sex whenever they feel like it—which is usually—just for...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

Goddess Murder, 36: The Holy Apostle Mary Sings of Her Husband; Dante II

XL. The Holy Apostle Mary Sings of Her Husband [An excerpt from the Gaulish Chronicles...

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....

August 2013

August 17, 2013

Goddess Murder, 11: Aphrodiphobia

XIII. The Work Continues, 3 Andy spoke up. “What you’re saying, Alan, is that even...

August 04, 2013

On Not Buying into Ancient Propaganda

In this passage from Epiphanius, we see that a young woman explained her sincere beliefs...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Goddess Murder, 5: The Work Begins

VII. The Work Begins To Zeus all things are beautiful, just, and good, but...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

On My Love for Sophia, Our Lady of Wisdom and Mercy

It is common to suppose that knowledge is not wisdom, but just what is the...

May 2013

May 03, 2013

On Gnosticism, the Book of Shadows, and Sex

I received a few days ago my monthly statistical report from Patheos on how many...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Empower the True Muslims;They Are Hope for Humanity

Since the Boston bombing, the newscasters have talked nonstop and nonsense about Muslims, saying nothing...

April 08, 2013

I Had a Jewish Grandfather Named Kelly

Even in my forties, I still learned things by talking with my mother. On her...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

Knowledge Rather Than Faith

When the ecstasy hit, I gasped and looked up at the ceiling above my desk,...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

On Being Outside All the Boxes

Having been working (for a long time) on a novel about the same alternative universe...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Imagine Jesus Holding Hands with the Goddess

One cannot talk about both Christianity and the Craft in the same breath IF if...

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