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April 2024

April 28, 2024

A Pagan Meditates in a Baroque Church

I took shelter from the snow inside a Swiss church. It made for in interesting...

April 07, 2024

Richard Dawkins Calls Himself a Cultural Christian

New Atheist Richard Dawkins’ work on evolution is excellent. But his writings on religion are...

April 03, 2024

The Solar Eclipse: Magic and Danger or Wonder and Awe?

Traditionally, eclipses are bad omens, especially for kings and others in high places. An eclipse...

March 2024

March 31, 2024

The Call of Cernunnos

The natural world is in turmoil and so of course a God of Nature is...

March 27, 2024

Avoiding Discouragement in Magic and Devotion

Impatience leads to failure, failure leads to discouragement, and discouragement leads to abandoning spiritual practices...

March 24, 2024

Where Do Rights Come From? A Modern Pagan View

Conservatives like to claim that “our rights come from God, not from government!” But that’s...

March 20, 2024

We’re Pagans – We Do Ritual

Historian Francis Young says that while ritual is clearly important to us as humans, we...

March 17, 2024

Survive and Advance

Some problems can’t be fixed. Sometimes no amount of effort, no amount of money, no...

March 10, 2024

How to Make a Monster

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is as relevant today as it was when she first...

March 06, 2024

I’m Already Tired of AI Art

There are serious ethical issues with the way AI plagiarizes art and with how some...

March 03, 2024

Learning to Recognize Your Magical Successes

Too many people – many of whom call themselves witches – are unable to recognize...

February 2024

February 25, 2024

The Alabama IVF Ruling: One More Step Toward Theocracy

First they came for abortion. Then they came for IVF. They’ll keep coming for more...

February 21, 2024

5 Ways to Deepen Your Paganism

The call to deeper magic and spirituality often comes subtly. At first you’re barely aware...

February 18, 2024

The Devil and Mary MacLane

In 1901, 19 year old Mary MacLane wrote about her love for her “anemone lady”...

February 11, 2024

The New Asatru Temple and the Challenges to Authenticity

The Christians who argue “Pagan religions aren’t authentic because they have no continuity with the...

February 04, 2024

5 Steps to Re-enchant the World

Re-enchantment is a way of seeing the world and relating to the world that happens...

January 2024

January 28, 2024

Meaning Doesn’t Require a God – It Requires a Choice

Occasionally I hear someone say “if there is no God then life has no meaning.”...

January 21, 2024

Vampires, Crosses, and the Importance of Good Metaphysics

A meme going around talks about vampires being repelled by crosses and how that works....

January 14, 2024

6 Kinds Of People Who Revert Out Of Paganism And Witchcraft

Recently there’ve been several people who, after making a name for themselves as witches or...

January 10, 2024

“Pagan” Has A Meaning

Paganism is impossible to precisely define, but that doesn’t mean it’s anything anybody says it...

January 07, 2024

For Those Who’ve Had Enough Tough Love

I’m sick of all the “tough love” on social media. They say “I’m just being...

January 03, 2024

A Response From One Of The Pagans

In December 1946, author and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis published an essay in Strand Magazine...

January 01, 2024

Divination for 2024

The reading for 2024 is quite positive, but also quite challenging. This is not a...

December 2023

December 27, 2023