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March 2016

March 19, 2016

American Gods and the Growth of Devotional Polytheism, Part 1: Fantasy and Inspiration

There has always been a close relationship between fantasy and contemporary Paganism, and for the...

March 18, 2016

“How Do You Like Them Apples?” On Gods and Metaphors

I have noticed -- especially recently -- that rigidity of definitions tends to correspond to...

March 11, 2016

From a Flatland Metaphysics to the Ecology of the Gods

Let's acknowledge that all of us are talking about gods, but we're talking about them...

March 04, 2016

The Dictionary Is Not A Holy Book

Language is a living thing -- especially religious language. It is supple and flowing, and...

February 2016

February 23, 2016

Bursting the White Bubble of Colorblindness

My “colorblindness” actually contributes to the perpetuation of this racist system. Being “colorblind” renders me...

February 18, 2016

Want To Be A Pagan?: “Climb a Fucking Tree!”

"If you want to worship nature, you don’t need a sunwheel, pentacle, or a goddess...

February 16, 2016

In Religious Matters, Truth Is Overrated

There are things that matter as much as truth. Things like beauty and compassion, a...

February 04, 2016

Become a Shaper of Earthseed

Earthseed is a new Neo-Pagan path currently being Shaped. Earthseed’s three main tenets are: God...

February 01, 2016

An Eclectic Mid-Winter Ritual

Here in the Midwest, February is the coldest time of the year on average. There...

January 2016

January 22, 2016

How to Construct a Morning Ritual

Having a morning ritual has been very important for me. A morning ritual sets the...

January 21, 2016

Syfy’s Magicians Series Serves As a Cautionary Tale to Would-Be Magicians

If SyFy's Magicians series goes the way of other television adaptations of sophisticated novels, then...

January 15, 2016

Simple Answers Have to Be Earned

Simple answers have to earned -- earned by working through complexity. Simple answers which precede...

January 14, 2016

“Less Christian Than Thou”: Neo-Paganism and Polytheism Beyond the Christian Divide

Neo-Pagans and Polytheists -- have fundamentally different issues. Polytheism and Neo-Paganism don't just represent different...

January 01, 2016

I’ve forgotten why I cared: The irrelevance of (un)belief in the gods

Have you ever asked a question and then, in the course of the ensuring conversation,...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

7 Guidelines for Herding Pagan Cats

I don't know much about organizing people. But I did pick up a few things...

December 28, 2015

What’s On Your Pagan Calendar for 2016?

What does your Pagan Calendar look like? What special days do you observe in addition...

December 24, 2015

My Eclectic Yuletide Ritual

My Yuletide ritual this year began on the winter solstice and will culminate with the...

December 24, 2015

7 Reasons Why Christmas is Part of My Pagan Wheel of the Year

1. Yule is NOT a minor sabbat. "Whenever I hear a Neo-Pagan say that the...

December 21, 2015

Join Taylor Ellwood of Magical Experiments and me tonight as we explore what atheist Paganism is

Join Taylor Ellwood of Magical Experiments and me tonight at 6 p.m Pacific / 9...

December 13, 2015

A Unitarian Wheel of the Year

Vespers in the winter, the Flower Communion in the spring, Pride Day in the summer,...

December 09, 2015

Someone said something stupid on the internet … so I went to my altar.

Yesterday, I read a blog post that tested my recent commitment to abstain from Internet...

December 04, 2015

I’m Done.

"Our authenticity lies not in our responses to baseless criticism and personal attacks, but in...

November 2015

November 28, 2015

How Pagan Spaces Become Toxic to Non-Theistic Pagans (Part 2)

I present this as an example of the kind of animosity and vitriol that non-theistic...

November 28, 2015

How Pagan Spaces Become Toxic to Non-Theistic Pagans (Part 1)

I present this as an example of the kind of animosity and vitriol that non-theistic...

November 24, 2015

Why Pagans Hate “Witches of America”

I wonder if perhaps what underlies some of the intensity of the Pagan condemnation of...

November 20, 2015

“The Great Story”: A Non-Theistic Cosmology

"The Great Story" is the 14 billion year narrative of the evolution of the cosmos,...

November 18, 2015

The Mormon Church Leaders Still Don’t Get It

The fact that the Mormon leadership did not at first consider the situation of children...

November 13, 2015

A “Valiant Attempt” to Bridge the Gap Between Pagans and Environmentalists

"It is clear that Paganism and environmentalism are close allies in building a more sustainable...

November 08, 2015

My Religion is Rooted in the Holy Powers of the Soil

My religion is rooted. In fact, it is a religion of roots ... and of...

November 08, 2015

The Mormon Church Punishes the Children of LGBT Parents for the “Apostasy” of Their Parents

Mormon children of LGBT will be barred from all of the sacraments which serve as...