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May 2012

May 30, 2012

Guest Post: “Not Believing Anything” by C. Luke Mula

C. Luke Mula is the author of The Way to Actuality blog, which was "founded...

May 23, 2012

The Three (or more?) “Centers” of Paganism

This post is part 2 of a 3-part series. In the first part, I discussed...

May 23, 2012

Coming Up: Guest Post by C. Luke Mula

Next week I will be sharing a guest post by C. Luke Mula, author of...

May 21, 2012

Confession: Pagan Fundamentalism

This post is part 1 of a 3-part series. Previously, I posted a 3-part series...

May 17, 2012

Librariaphilia

I've always thought we needed a memorial day for the burning of the Great Library...

May 15, 2012

A politically incorrect opinion on cultural approriation by eclectic Neopagans

Eclectic Neopaganism is criticized by anthropologists and other academics who condemn the removal of religious...

May 11, 2012

Sign of the (Pagan) End Times?

Peter Dybing, former first officer of the Covenant of the Goddess, has quit Paganism. Well,...

May 10, 2012

“Post-Paganism”

I am a label junkie. If you've been following this blog for any length of...

May 09, 2012

How Birds and Bunnies Save My Sanity

I am not a bird lover. I don't have bird pets. I don't own a...

May 08, 2012

American Neopaganism, Part 3: Past, Present, and Future

In this final part of my American Neopaganism series, I want to talk about different...

May 03, 2012

American Neopaganism, Part 2: “I think I may be a Wiccan”

In my last post, I wrote that Neopaganism was a distinguishable tradition from Wicca, and...

May 02, 2012

American Neopaganism, Part 1: An Imaginary Tradition?

The AmericanNeopaganism.com website which I maintain will be taken down next month. I've maintained it...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Happy Lusty Month of May!

If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birth-right, the merry...

April 29, 2012

Family Mid-Spring Ritual: Jesus and the Goddess

For May Day, I usually take my family to the CUUPs celebration at the UU...

April 26, 2012

Is life like the Iliad or the Book of Job?

If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of...

April 22, 2012

The gods may be hungry

Last Sunday, at the "Spirit Circle" group at my Unitarian Universalist congregation, we watched a...

April 15, 2012

Reality vs. Meaning

I’ve been watching this series on TV, “Awake”, and I noticed a parallel to some...

April 05, 2012

Praise for Pagan Humanists

I like to see whenever Humanistic Pagans or Pagan Atheists get mentioned by more polytheistic...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Blog Roll

I want to share some great recent posts on other blogs. 1. Alison Leigh Lilly...

March 29, 2012

Memorial for Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich, celebrated poet and feminist, passed away yesterday. I know Rich mostly for the...

March 24, 2012

Teo Bishop: When ritual doesn’t goes as planned

Check out this wonderful post by Teo Bishop about a beautifully planned ritual that does...

March 24, 2012

Poetry moment

I just wanted to share this. I have this feeling more often than I care...

March 21, 2012

Family Spring Equinox Ritual

Here's my outline for our upcoming family Spring Equinox celebration: Lord and Lady Day Spring...

March 20, 2012

Why we need a statement of Pagan “first principles”

At my UU Church this Sunday, we had a planned discussion of what people wanted...

March 18, 2012

Check out B. T. Newberg’s post: “In defense of ‘gods'”

Check out B. T. Newberg's recent post at Humanistic Paganism: "In defense of 'gods'", where...

March 16, 2012

When everything is sacred, nothing is

I've often wondered what it is that makes humans human. Is it our developed forebrains...

March 15, 2012

The cruel miracle of spring

So spring has arrived. It's beautiful. We have our windows open. Just in time for...

March 14, 2012

Jesus saved me from Christianity … so I could become Pagan

Jason Mankey recently posted an interesting essay about what he calls the "Pagan/Atheist alliance". In...

March 13, 2012

Happy Holi-Day

Saturday night I went to the Hindu Holi festival at the Hindu Temple of Greater...

March 08, 2012

What is it that rules outside man’s self?: The gods as “other”

I recently had an online discussion with Rua Lupa following her guest post at Humanistic...