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August 2016

August 25, 2016

Can “God” be Castrated?

When we say that a historically male-gendered term is genderless, there is the risk that...

July 2016

July 14, 2016

Why We Need A God/dess Who Does Not Look Like Us

It is important to recognize God in our own image, our own reflection — especially...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Is There a Place for God in Paganism?

Choosing to say "God" instead of "Goddess" allows us to speak about divinity separately from...

June 04, 2015

12 Reasons You Can’t (only) Call God “Father”

"They will continue with the radical feminist agenda until they are actually holding hands with...

April 2015

April 05, 2015

A Christo-Pagan Eucharist

This Easter, my family and I attended a mass. While it was a Christian service,...

March 2015

March 11, 2015

Bowing before the personified impersonal: Prayer for an atheist Pagan

Ever since leaving my Christian religion of origin, I have refused to kneel when I...

March 10, 2015

Wish upon Ostara: Why I wish Ostara was called something else

The year should turn the Wheel, not the other way around. The problem with many...

November 2014

November 15, 2014

The Secret History of the Triple Goddess, Part 3: Will the real Triple Goddess please stand up?

No symbol is more ubiquitous in Neo-Pagan and Wiccan culture than that of the Triple...

November 14, 2014

The Secret History of the Triple Goddess, Part 2: The Search for the Triple Goddess of Antiquity

I trace the evolution of the Greco-Roman triple goddess par excellence: Hekate-Diana. Many Pagans will...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

Fruits of the Deep Ecology Tree: Pantheism

Pantheism means “All (pan-) is God (theos)”. Pantheism is the belief that God/dess is not...

June 2014

June 02, 2014

(Partheno)Genesis: A Feminist Midrash

In the beginning, before the Goddess (Elat) gave birth to the Earth, before the gods...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Finding the Pagan Goddess in a Mormon temple

Mormons believe in a Heavenly Mother, but are not allowed to pray to or even...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

“I am become the Sun …”: What Baby Jesus means to this Pagan

As surely as a part of me died when I left Mormonism, something new was...

December 02, 2013

My Goddess is gross

"This is your Goddess," my wife said to me smiling. "It's the slimy side of...

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"....

November 07, 2013

Naming the Whirlwind: speaking of “God”

What words or phrases do you use to name that experience of mystery and wonder...

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...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

A Defiant Worship: What Shark Week teaches me about God/dess

In the end, we all must surrender to God But in the meantime, let our...

August 15, 2013

Passing on my Paganism

This is what Paganism does for me. It brings out the holiness of the everyday:...

May 2013

May 05, 2013

Longing and Grace in Lev Grossman’s The Magician King

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently...

April 2013

April 20, 2013

Panentheism: The Dancer and the Dance

How can we know the dancer from the dance? -- W.B. Yeats Theism, Pantheism, and...

March 2013

March 16, 2013

There’s being Earth-centered, and then there’s being earth-centered: why both are important

I recently made two attempts to explain why I think why our subjective experience should...

January 2013

January 19, 2013

I worship the blind God

You weary Nations, perhaps I am some new being you've never encountered before. Yet there...

November 2012

November 04, 2012

A Jungian Interpretation of the Goddess

John P. Dourley is my favorite interpreter of Jung. Author of numerous books on Jung,...

October 2012

October 11, 2012

Goddess as a Personal Presence

In a recent post, I wrote about polytheistic religious experience from a Jungian perspective. Recently...

April 2012

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 28, 2012

My Neopagan Beliefs

What does it mean to me to be Neopagan? Part of it is believing certain...

August 2011

August 20, 2011

Red in Tooth and Bear Claw

Okay, I need some catharsis. Warning: do not read this if you want to sleep...