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May 2017

May 16, 2017

A Druid Method

Each Druid order defines Druidry in their own way and I have no desire to...

May 14, 2017

Who Can Stand Against Us? An Invocation For Tower Time

We are living in Tower Time and in the last throes of Empire. We may...

May 11, 2017

Spiritual Preparations For Leading Ritual

Leading a good ritual requires more than making all the necessary logistical preparations. It also...

May 09, 2017

Stealing Fire From The Gods

The practice of magic is, in many ways, stealing fire from the Gods. Every spell...

May 07, 2017

So You Had a Religious Experience – Now What?

Religious experiences are like finding a locked box in your grandmother’s attic. It’s beautiful and...

May 05, 2017

A Pagan at the National Day of Prayer

Many public events for the National Day of Prayer restrict participation to Evangelical Christians, but...

May 04, 2017

Incorporating Animism into our Paganism

Animism is not a religion. It’s a foundational concept of many religions, one that both...

May 01, 2017

The Loyalty Day Proclamation: Loyalty is Earned, Not Commanded

The very idea of a Loyalty Day is offensive, no matter who is issuing the...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Paganism Is Evolving, Not Dying

Paganism isn’t one thing – it’s a movement that contains many religions, proto-religions, and spiritualities....

April 27, 2017

The Path of Paganism

After a journey of over three years, my first book The Path of Paganism is...

April 25, 2017

Why I Had To Make a Clean Break With Christianity

I grew up in fundamentalism and so I had to make a clean break with...

April 23, 2017

Beltane – The Coming of the Gods

The Tuatha De Danann had to fight to make a home in Ireland. I do...

April 20, 2017

Owning Land in an Animist World

We can own land, at least in a limited sense of the term. But owning...

April 18, 2017

The Monsters that Live in the Depths

Some aren’t interested in deeper practice. Some aren’t ready for it… but when are any...

April 16, 2017

Three Forms of Immortality

To be human is to live with the realization that we are alive but that...

April 13, 2017

The Authority of the Gods

The older I get the more I realize just how much I don’t know. If...

April 11, 2017

Stepping Aside

October 31 will be my last day as Coordinating Officer of Denton CUUPS. I will...

April 09, 2017

Feeling Small in the Presence of the Gods

Feeling small in Nature isn’t the result of some artificial hierarchy – in the immensities...

April 06, 2017

We Don’t Have to Own the Land to Honor the Land

Humans have always been migrants. We may settle down for a few generations, but then...

April 04, 2017

The Jealous Druid

I’m amused that Jason Mankey is jealous of me. But I have my own Pagan-related...

April 02, 2017

Mike Pence Needs Consent Culture

If a man can’t work with women in the same way he works with men,...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Don’t Be Respectable, Be Authentic

If we pretend to be harmless so our neighbors will like us, eventually we’ll convince...

March 28, 2017

Making Deep Paganism Public… Some Of The Time

Part of my calling is to make deep practices accessible to anyone with a general...

March 26, 2017

Progressive Magic

Magic has a dilemma. It works best when it’s focused and specific, but many of...

March 22, 2017

The Non-Negotiables of My Religion

There are three non-negotiables in my religion. If I abandoned or significantly changed any of...

March 19, 2017

Nine Things I Think: Appearances, Journals, and New Pagan Websites

March 16, 2017

Spiritual Treatment Is No Substitute For Mental Health Care

Spiritual practice is no substitute for proper mental health care. This isn’t a difference of...

March 14, 2017

What’s Changing: The World or Us?

What’s changing: the world or us? I’ve been arguing it’s the world, but I now...

March 12, 2017

Reimagining Ostara

As a Nature-centered Pagan, I enjoy celebrating Ostara, the Spring Equinox. But as a Deity-centered...

March 09, 2017

Listening to the Dead at a Civil War Battlefield

620,000 people died in the Civil War because the world changed and some refused to...

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