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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 15, 2016

How “Gods Before Politics” Perpetuates Privilege

The myth of non-political Pagan spaces acts as a blindfold for the Pagan community --...

April 2016

April 22, 2016

Fiddling With The Gods While Rome Burns

What Beckett has been describing with increasing clarity over the past several years is a...

April 19, 2016

The gods are “like warm apple pie”: The hidden meanings behind our metaphors

I don't know what is going on with all the apple metaphors. First, John Beckett...

April 13, 2016

Sharing Our Stories, Sharing Our Gods

We don't own our myths ... or our gods ... or their images. And we...

March 2016

March 19, 2016

American Gods and the Growth of Devotional Polytheism, Part 2: Dilution and Transcendence

American Gods reflected -- and probably magnified -- a dissatisfaction among many Pagans with popular...

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 16, 2016

In Religious Matters, Truth Is Overrated

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

January 2016

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 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...

November 2015

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...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

I Hold These Things To Be Sacred: A Reply to Sarenth Odinsson

I hold these things to be sacred and holy: all life, the earth, nature, our...

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...

October 10, 2015

We’re All Appropriating Dead Pagan Cultures

Do those who are attempting to revive a dead culture have the right to claim...

October 02, 2015

The Image on this Header is Holy to Me

This is where I write about my spirituality. This is where I write about holy...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

On Gods and Stained Glass Windows: A Response to Morpheus Ravenna

I’m glad that the stained glass windows are there, standing between me and the sun....

September 04, 2015

Believing In Our Myths, Without Believing Them

We need to find a way to live mythically, without taking our myths literally --...

September 02, 2015

Don’t Tell Me I Haven’t Met Any Gods

If you're a polytheist who believes in multiple pantheons, then you have to acknowledge the...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

“The Disenchantment of Hard Polytheism”

"... Human beings have consistently demonstrated a collective unwillingness to place the needs of our...

August 23, 2015

If It Doesn’t Help Me Save This World, I Don’t Want Your Polytheist Revolution

It has become more clear to me than ever why I am opposed to the...

August 21, 2015

“Pantheism, Archetype, and Deities in Ritual” by Shauna Aura Knight

Check out this great 3-part series by Shauna Aura Knight discussing deities and archetypes and...

July 2015

July 09, 2015

Your goddess is not a fad, but you may wish she was sometimes

The Morrigan is a battle deity. And whatever you believe about her metaphysical nature, her...

February 2015

February 01, 2015

My god may be blind, but I’m not: Why theists don’t have a corner on religious experience

Some atheists have had experiences which are very similar, if not identical, to those of...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Why I don’t trust the gods (at least not if I’m alone with one)

I think it's a mistake to assume the gods are benign. The word "worship" derives...

April 2014

April 10, 2014

In Defense of an Eclectic Pantheon

I think the prohibition against mixing pantheons has less to do with the gods and...

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...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Gods I have known, Part 2: Macrocosm

What is the relationship between the gods of my psyche and the gods of nature?...