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November 2012

November 16, 2012

Being Embarrassed by Paganism

Years ago, when I was deciding whether to leave the Mormon church, one of the...

October 2012

October 28, 2012

Lateral Transcendence: Toward Greater Compassion

My minister at the Unitarian congregation I attend recently started a sermon series on "Dangerous...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

Defining Paganism and Neopaganism

I can't believe I am diving into this linguistic swamp again, but here goes. Recently,...

September 13, 2012

Navel gazing versus the journey to the World Navel: Individuation and community

Jungians are sometimes accused of being ego-centric navel gazers in the Pagan community. There is...

August 2012

August 26, 2012

“One Needful Thing”, Part 2: UUism and the Transformative Experience

In Part 1, I traced the development of Unitarianism since the early 19th century to...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

Dream: Finding my soul outside the Pagan community?

For someone who considers himself “Jungian”, I don’t dream very often. Or rather, I don’t...

June 07, 2012

The Gospel of Tolerance vs. the Spirit of Inquiry

Yesterday, Star Foster held a "Live Pagan Hangout" on the topic of "active tolerance" (a...

June 03, 2012

Star Foster surrenders the “Pagan” label to the naturalists

Okay, not quite. I overstated my title for dramatic effect. But that's how shocked I...

June 02, 2012

Soul-Centered Paganism

This post is Part 3 of a 3-part series on my evolving sense of Pagan...

May 2012

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 11, 2012

Sign of the (Pagan) End Times?

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

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...

March 2012

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...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

Pantheacon 2012 (Part 2): Three ways of identifying as Pagan

“Am I Pagan?” Oh my god! Am I really writing about this again? This happens...

January 2012

January 15, 2012

Spiritually, but not religiously, Pagan

Recently at the Bishop in the Grove blog, Teo Bishop wrestled again with the label...

December 2011

December 06, 2011

Why Unitarians Can’t Dance: Spirituality

Have I not seen the sky and sea Put on a look as hushed and...

October 2011

October 28, 2011

Religious Identity, Boundaries, and Authority

I was just listening to a lecture which I downloaded from The Teaching Company entitled...

October 26, 2011

Tradition, Rootedness, and Freedom

Tradition, tradition! Tradition! Tradition, tradition! Tradition! Who, day and night, must scramble for a living,...

October 05, 2011

Right Livelihood

I just finished Chapter 22, "Marriage and Loneliness", in John Trevor’s autobiography, My Quest for...

August 2011

August 30, 2011

Meso-Wicca and Neo-Paganism

Over at Patheos, two weeks after Star Foster lauded the praises of traditional initiatory Wicca,...