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February 2015

February 09, 2015

Mistakes I’ve made (on both sides): Atheists and Theists under the Big Tent of Paganism

Theists and atheists have always disagreed and they always will. And that goes for theistic...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

The First Commandment of Paganism: “Thou Shalt Not Judge” (and why this is a problem)

Paganism doesn't have any commandments, like the Abrahamic religions, but if we did, I think...

July 2014

July 12, 2014

The Allergic Pagan at Play: “wild” nature as soul food

Even while I sat at home scratching my poison ivy, I never once regretted the...

February 2014

February 08, 2014

These aren’t the gods you’re looking for.

At some point in your spiritual journey, you have to stop looking over other people's...

November 2013

November 20, 2013

Why I am grateful for Paganism: The comfort and the affliction

A friend told me that true religion should "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"....

August 2013

August 03, 2013

My Favorite Posts From July

There's so much interesting blogging going on in our community. I want to highlight a...

April 2013

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...

March 2013

March 03, 2013

The Sun Also Riseth: The limits of objectivity (UPDATED)

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where...

January 2013

January 10, 2013

(Neo-)Pagan Sensibility

I want to take a time out from my 2012 blogroll review and talk briefly...

September 2012

September 07, 2012

“One needful thing”, Part 3: Letting go of the side of the pool

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

June 2012

June 17, 2012

Polytheists on Christianity?

Jason Mankey recently weighed in on the "atheist Pagan" controversy at his new blog "Raise...

March 2012

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...