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March 2013

March 19, 2013

Interfaith: Risks, Rewards, and Boundaries

Like gay people who come out of the closet, Pagans who engage in interfaith work...

March 17, 2013

Reclaiming Your Sovereignty

Before the Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh, Figol the Druid blessed the warriors, saying “as...

March 14, 2013

Pagan Wishes For The New Pope

It is not reasonable to expect the new pope to reform his church in the...

March 12, 2013

Silence and the Limitations of Language

Were the religious experiences of our distant ancestors incomplete because they did not have language...

March 10, 2013

Do The Gods Change?

The Pagan Neoplatonists believed the gods were unchanging. The ancient stories and our own experience...

March 06, 2013

Iamblichus on Prayer

1700 years ago, Iamblichus wrote “extended practice of prayer nurtures our intellect, enlarges very greatly...

March 04, 2013

Amanda Palmer and the Art of Asking

Singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer has a TED talk describing her hyper-successful crowdfunding project. It’s titled “The...

March 01, 2013

Make Magic of Your Life

My first impression was that Thorn Coyle had written a self-help book. Was I ever...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Neither Within Nor Without

There is great danger in transition zones, in times and places that are neither within...

February 24, 2013

Know Your Theological Boundaries

Because theology is a speculative process dealing with highly subjective topics, we have great leeway...

February 20, 2013

Boundaries

We are discrete beings living in a continuous universe, so our brains evolved to classify...

February 18, 2013

The Reality of Limits

Many of the difficulties in both our mainstream society and in our Pagan community revolve...

February 16, 2013

Pantheacon Envy

I hope all my friends at Pantheacon are having a great time and I hope...

February 13, 2013

Beyond Beginnings

That feeling of “what now?” is a good thing. It means your curiosity is engaged...

February 11, 2013

Morrigan Devotional Ritual

When small groups of like-minded Pagans work together in an intimate setting, great things can...

February 07, 2013

Worship the Gods

Pagans understand different people worship different gods. We have more trouble accepting that different people...

February 05, 2013

Wondering About Offerings

Introducing a spiritual practice – even a familiar one – in ritual is like planting...

February 03, 2013

Render Due Honor

On a cold Friday night in Texas, forty people came together and rendered due honor...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

The Myth of Magic

Most of us believe in magic even if we like to think we don’t. That’s...

January 28, 2013

The Druid Revival Reader

Modern Druidry traces its lineage back to 1717. The early “Revival Druids” are an important...

January 25, 2013

Pagan, Druid and UU

I am an active part of three religious traditions: Pagan, Druid, and Unitarian Universalist. Practicing...

January 22, 2013

Fear of the Gods

People who come to Paganism often have a fear of approaching our gods and goddesses....

January 21, 2013

A New Home

Welcome to the new home of “Under the Ancient Oaks.” I’m John Beckett and I’m...

January 15, 2013

The End of Growth

Here’s a link to an article from The Wall Street Journal titled “A California Drought:...

January 11, 2013

Tension and the Big Tent of Paganism

Yesterday I started a blog post on the most recent internet dustup over the label...

January 08, 2013

Creating and Re-creating

David Dashifen Kees had an excellent question in response to my last post on Sam...

January 06, 2013

Via Deorum

The wonderful folks of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel now have the audio files...

January 04, 2013

The Care and Use of an Altar

Fellow OBOD Druid Dana Driscoll has a nice piece on her blog on the hows...

January 02, 2013

Reflect Before You Resolve

There is something seductive about the beginning of a new Gregorian year. The New Year’s...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

sheep grazing at AveburyThe Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries is a survey of encounters with faeries,...

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