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December 2016

December 15, 2016

Pagans, Stop Being So Silly!

Paganism is more than a fashion statement. We have a deeper wisdom to share with...

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Hear Diverse Voices Reading a Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

You can now listen to a compilation of voices of various ethnicities, nationalities, ages, and...

April 14, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #8 Learn Old Skills

Resilient communities are those can better withstand the shock of environmental change and economic collapse....

April 13, 2016

The Awkward Adolescence of the Polytheist Movement: Defining Community at the Edges

The contemporary Polytheist movement is in its adolescence, and like every adolescence, it's awkward and...

April 10, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #12 Build Community

One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to help...

April 04, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #18 Organize Your Community

One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to become...

March 2016

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...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

A “Truce” Which Requires Silence Cannot Produce Peace

There will never be a clean separation between Pagans and Polytheists. There will always be...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

I didn’t think this needed to be said, but apparently it does …

To any person who takes issue with me or the opinions I have expressed here,...

June 26, 2015

Global Eco-Paganism: Czech Republic

It is not about us taking care of the Planet which is somehow ours like...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

Why I am joining the First Unitarian Church

Tomorrow I will become a member of the Unitarian church. This may be shocking to...

May 28, 2015

EGO-Paganism and the Tyranny of Structurelessness

Ego-Paganism is not focused on connection or relationship, but on individual freedom and self-expression. Ego-centered...

May 25, 2015

“Pagans Beating the Pope to the Punch”: 5,000 Pagans take a stand for the Earth

Five thousand people have already signed "A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment" from 67 countries so...

May 13, 2015

“Pagans and the Pope Join their Voices to Save the Planet”

When Catholics talk about "paganism", it never seems to me that they are really talking...

May 07, 2015

“10,000 Pagans Raise Their Voices For Environmental Action”: Help make this a reality

Help us get 10,000 signatures for "A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment" by Summer...

May 05, 2015

More than BNPs: Who has signed “A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment”?

Even more than "Big Name Pagans" like Starhawk, I am excited to see the nearly...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

The Draft Pagan Community Statement on the Environment is available for public comment

UPDATE In honor of Earth Day, the statement has been published at ecopagan.com where you can add your...

March 19, 2015

Church is no substitute for religion, Part 2: The Spirituality Gap

"Religion" is about symbol, myth, and ritual, while "church" is about community, morality/ethics, and ideology

January 2015

January 05, 2015

An atheist Pagan, an animist, and a devotional polytheist walk into a ritual …

We have to accept that we can define words for ourselves, but not for others....

September 2014

September 27, 2014

Branches of the Deep Ecology Tree: Neo-Animism and Bioregionalism: Reuniting human and nature

Neo-animism represents a challenge to Western discourse which divides the world into subjects and objects,...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Call for a Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

Where is our declaration on the environment? Where is our action plan on climate change?...

August 11, 2014

Single File Spirituality: Community for Spiritual Introverts

I need to let go of this abstract idea of what participation in a religious...

March 2014

March 10, 2014

“A mighty host respond”: Pagan unity through diversity

Is it possible to build a religious community around the idea of celebrating difference? Is...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

The Year in Review: Blog posts that should have gotten more attention (Part 1)

Instead of writing about our controversies, I want to highlight some posts that I read...

September 2013

September 21, 2013

Cherish Our Polytheists: The balkanization of our community and what is at stake

Each time someone withdraws from Paganism, we lose not only their company, but also their...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

The center cannot hold: UPG as a centrifugal force

Personal gnosis is always potentially threatening to community. In order for a community like Paganism...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Straight talk about the Pagan identity crisis

You have got to check out B.T. Newberg's newest post at Pagan Naturally, "The 'Pagan'...

January 2013

January 05, 2013

Is there a “disconnect” between Pagan blogosphere the Pagan community?

About a month ago, Jason Mankey wondered whether the controversies in the Pagan blogosphere have...

December 2012

December 15, 2012

The questions that led me to Neopaganism

When I left the Mormon church, I felt a strong need to justify myself. A...

November 2012

November 24, 2012

Embarrassment and the twin threats to Paganism: Shallowness of the mind and of the heart

In my last post, I wrote about "Being Ashamed by Paganism" (which was really about...