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June 2013

June 26, 2013

10 reasons I care about the same sex marriage rulings

I care because I'm a human being and I feel the pain of other human...

June 22, 2013

Being the Allergic Pagan: My lover’s quarrel with the world

The irony of being a Pagan with seasonal allergies symbolizes an essential conflict at the...

June 22, 2013

They’re not all the same: Meet some other hard polytheists

In my last post, I used Jason Mankey's interview of self-described atheist Pagan Amy B....

June 15, 2013

We’re not all Amy B.: Meet some other non-theistic Pagans

When saw that Jason Mankey interviewed atheist Pagan Amy B. at Raising the Horns, I...

June 10, 2013

Where I went wrong: Virtual sacred space

Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within....

June 10, 2013

Mea Culpa

Much wiser and cooler heads than mine have pointed out that my last post was...

June 09, 2013

“We have met the enemy and he is us.” — Pogo (Revised)

I'd hammer out danger I'd hammer out a warning I'd hammer out love between my...

June 04, 2013

Time out for a Big Thank You!

The is my 250th post and I am celebrating! As I approach the second year...

June 02, 2013

Hearing voices or talking to ourselves?

All revelations are personal. That's why all revelations are suspect. -- Neil Gaiman, American Gods...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

“Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.” — Friedrich Schiller

Controversy has broken loose on the Pagan blogosphere again. This time over the suggestion that...

May 30, 2013

“We are opening ourselves up to things we should not, like belly dancing and magic spells”

The quote above comes from one of a long line of speakers at the Pahokee...

May 29, 2013

Paganism’s Real Shadow Gods

Check out my two new posts at PaganSquare about some archetypes that might constitute Paganism's...

May 27, 2013

“Sound’s like Daddy’s at church.”: American Pieism

"Sound's like Daddy's at church." That's what my daughter told my wife this morning when...

May 27, 2013

M is for Masturbation

Lucy: "Where are you?" Devil/Dad: I'm at my dildo factory. Lucy: You have a dildo...

May 23, 2013

A Christian Take on Contemporary Paganism

I was extremely gratified to read Paul Louis Metzger's recent post about contemporary Paganism at...

May 19, 2013

Am I an animist?

Don’t let us imagine we see the sun as the old civilisations saw it. All...

May 18, 2013

Religion vs. Therapy

Over at Patheos, in a post entitled, "another false divide", deity-centric hard polytheist Aine makes...

May 05, 2013

Longing and Grace in Lev Grossman’s The Magician King

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently...

May 04, 2013

New post at Pagan Square: Jung’s Shadow Trinity

Check out my new post at PaganSquare, which explores Jungian Neopaganism as the Shadow side...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Not leaving the Church alone: Sunstone Kirtland Conference

I don't often write about Mormonism here, and when I do it's usually as a...

April 24, 2013

My Defining Moment

"God is dead. [...] And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the...

April 22, 2013

Who wants to be a magician?

“There is another world, and it is this one.” -- Paul Eluard I recently got...

April 19, 2013

Quote: The path to heaven

the path to heaven doesn’t lie down in flat miles. It’s in the imagination with...

April 13, 2013

Home Is Where You Find Your Gods

There are many ways to define one's religious identity. It might be defined in terms...

April 12, 2013

Mother Nature uses the tongue

The other day, my 10 year old daughter was complaining about her freckles to my...

April 09, 2013

“Let’s agree to disagree”: This is not your father’s interfaith

Imagine for a moment, Pagans of all kinds having a heartfelt conversation with Muslims about...

April 07, 2013

Confessions of a Recovering Fundamentalist

A few months ago, I was contacted through Facebook by a lady, Eliane, in Brazil,...

April 07, 2013

Quote: “She knows she’s not real.”

Someone in my UU discussion group shared this story today about a student who suffered...

April 03, 2013

The waxing and waning of spiritual practice

I've written before about my struggle to maintain regular spiritual practice here and here and here. ...

April 01, 2013

But are the archetypes real?

Check out my new post at Dreaming the Myth Forward: "But are the archetypes real?" ...