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January 2016

January 21, 2016

Syfy’s Magicians Series Serves As a Cautionary Tale to Would-Be Magicians

If SyFy's Magicians series goes the way of other television adaptations of sophisticated novels, then...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

Why I Am “Still” A Pagan: the Problem and the Promise

In spite of the uncritical attitudes and superstitious ideas that haunt a lot of Paganism,...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Where would we be without Wicca? (Part 2)

Without Wicca -- and with the influence of esostericism thorough Wicca -- Neo-Paganism might outwardly...

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...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

“Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.” — Friedrich Schiller

Controversy has broken loose on the Pagan blogosphere again. This time over the suggestion that...

May 19, 2013

Am I an animist?

Don’t let us imagine we see the sun as the old civilisations saw it. All...

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 22, 2013

Who wants to be a magician?

“There is another world, and it is this one.” -- Paul Eluard I recently got...

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'...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

A proposed categorization of magical terminology

In an excellent essay entitled, “The New Old Paganism”, Ronald Hutton reviews the history of...

November 29, 2012

What do we mean by “magic”?

Magic is no instrument Magic is the end -- Leonard Cohen The issue of magic...

November 16, 2012

Being Embarrassed by Paganism

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

May 2012

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...

January 2012

January 29, 2012

The myth of objective consciousness

In my last post, I wrote about Theodore Roszak's critique of the Age of Affluence...

October 2011

October 21, 2011

My love/hate relationship with Neopaganism, Part 2

Why I love Neopaganism: #1 I love that Neopaganism honors the dark as well as...

October 21, 2011

My love/hate relationship with Neopaganism, Part 1

Why I hate Neopaganism: #1 I hate magic. Most Neopagans seem to believe in...

September 2011

September 17, 2011

Chicago Pagan Pride

I just got back from Chicago Pagan Pride and I am having my obligatory Pagan...

September 10, 2011

All I need is a little bit of magic

At her blog, Onion Work, Ruby Sara has recently posted about the beginnings of her...

August 2011

August 20, 2011

Blog Roll

1. Peregrin @ Magic of the Ordinary rants about spiritual identity: ceremonial magicians, Neopagans, Buddhists,...