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June 2013
June 09, 2013
All of Nature is beautiful, powerful and sacred. But whether they are especially powerful or...
June 06, 2013
Box pews are an interesting artifact from the early Protestant era. They served a purpose,...
June 04, 2013
Salem is a tourist town – set your expectations accordingly and you can have a...
June 02, 2013
My recent travels have given me time to read and reflect on the gods-and-superheroes debate...
May 2013
May 28, 2013
We’re not all called to be famous heroes – some of us are called to...
May 23, 2013
We need not agree with everything Pope Francis says and does to agree with his...
May 22, 2013
Ronald West Beckett (1948 – 2013)
My brother Ron died this past Saturday, May 18. His passing was not a surprise,...
May 16, 2013
Loving Nature in Tornado Season
When we learn to see things as they are, we can develop a deep connection...
May 14, 2013
People make decisions that are detrimental to the natural world for the same reason a...
May 12, 2013
The question of whether or not Paganism is a Nature religion is interesting and can...
May 10, 2013
When I heard Charlaine Harris was ending the Sookie Stackhouse series, I quickly came up...
May 08, 2013
Psychic Sylvia Browne told the mother of one of the rescued Ohio women that her...
May 05, 2013
The Denton CUUPS Beltane Circle was not your typical light-hearted celebration of fertility. We had...
May 02, 2013
For too many people in our society, “Pagan” still means “Other.” That must change. Some...
April 2013
April 30, 2013
While the uncertain nature of religious truth leaves us free to interpret evidence in the...
April 28, 2013
Comments, Texas Pagan Events, and a Video
Disqus comments, Denton CUUPS Beltane, the Houston Pagan Conference, and the video of "Reclaiming Your...
April 25, 2013
The saga of the poisoning of Toomer's Oaks at Auburn University is coming to a...
April 24, 2013
The Reformed Druids of North America
The story of the The Reformed Druids of North America, a story that is both...
April 22, 2013
A Modern Pagan View of Sacrifice
The common meaning of sacrifice is “to give up” but the older meaning is “to...
April 19, 2013
My defining moment came when I heard voices. They weren’t audible, but they couldn’t have...
April 16, 2013
Ronald Hutton and the Paradox of Witchcraft
Ronald Hutton said “we are the only society that both believes in witchcraft and doesn’t...
April 14, 2013
Sacred Lands and Spiritual Landscapes
For me, the key theme of the Sacred Lands and Spiritual Landscapes Symposium was shifting...
April 10, 2013
The primacy of belief is a modern, Western, Protestant concept. As Pagans, our emphasis is...
April 08, 2013
I truly believe we can connect to Nature no matter where we are. More than...
April 04, 2013
Football, Crossroads and Druids
I don’t want to be on my deathbed and realize I was the Druid equivalent...
April 01, 2013
When I blogged about the need for Pagans to work in groups, I got a...
March 2013
March 28, 2013
Patheos has a new series called “Why I Am A...” which challenges writers to explain...
March 26, 2013
Religious “bubbles” have existed ever since religion became an organized thing and they persist for...
March 24, 2013
Christianity is deeply embedded in our culture. Even if we are happily committed to Paganism...
March 21, 2013
The myth of the solitary Witch In The Forest is romantic, but most of us...
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