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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 --...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

Guns or Religion? The Danger of Simple Answers

Clarity can be a scary thing sometimes ... people who believe that killing others is...

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...

March 2016

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...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

“The Great Story”: A Non-Theistic Cosmology

"The Great Story" is the 14 billion year narrative of the evolution of the cosmos,...

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...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

Backfire and Backtracking: Update on Indiana’s Religious Discrimination Law

I don't know if I've ever seen a more beautiful instance of the phenomenon known...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Church is no substitute for religion, Part 1: The Sunday Assembly and Religionless Church

The Sunday Assembly wants to be "all the best parts of church but without the...

August 2014

August 11, 2014

Single File Spirituality: Community for Spiritual Introverts

I need to let go of this abstract idea of what participation in a religious...

August 21, 2013

The Grass is Always Greener: What Unitarianism is and what I wish it were

Sometimes, going to my Unitarian church on Sundays feels like an act of "spiritual suicide."...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: When a friend turns to fundamentalism

Can we not have the "life, meaning, and beauty" without the "swindle of religious belief"?...

May 2013

May 27, 2013

M is for Masturbation

Lucy: "Where are you?" Devil/Dad: I'm at my dildo factory. Lucy: You have a dildo...

May 18, 2013

Religion vs. Therapy

Over at Patheos, in a post entitled, "another false divide", deity-centric hard polytheist Aine makes...

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...

January 2013

January 19, 2013

The next time you walk into your bookstore …

... you may find your Pagany books in the Religion section, instead of in the...

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...

August 01, 2012

“One needful thing”, Part 1: What’s missing from Unitarianism

This is a mutli-part series. In this part, I discuss the history of Unitarianism, including...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Treacherous parodies of freedom, joy, and fulfillment

A few weeks ago, my daughter heard an ad on the radio for an audition...

January 19, 2012

My Son Confronts Existential Despair

Yesterday, I initiated a conversation with my 13 year-old son about what he believes happens...