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March 2009

March 22, 2009

Ostara Recap

Last night was our CUUPS Ostara Circle, a beautiful ritual led by Bonnie and based...

March 20, 2009

Happy Equinox!

As of 6:44 AM CDT today it's officially Spring. A Happy Equinox and Blessed Ostara...

March 19, 2009

Distractions, Distractions…

After only four days of “preparation,” I’m finding it difficult to maintain an intensely spiritual...

March 18, 2009

The Balance Between Light and Dark

I think I need to begin by stating that I don’t see light and dark...

March 17, 2009

Where Have All the Gardners and Crowleys Gone?

That’s the title of a WitchVox essay by Juniper, a “hedgewitch” from British Columbia. Her...

March 17, 2009

Ostara Preparations

It was warm enough to do last night’s meditation outside, which is always nice. The...

March 16, 2009

Ostara Preparations

During last night’s meditation on rebirth, I was struck with the theme of last Samhain’s...

March 16, 2009

Pagan Teachers

This week’s topic on The Witches’ Voice is Teaching and Teachers. I’ve read the first...

March 15, 2009

Ostara Preparations

Last month I wrote about the need for a time of introspection in Pagan religion,...

March 14, 2009

The New Calvinism

TIME Magazine has a feature on “10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now.” It’s one...

March 12, 2009

Secret Rites

Here’s an interesting topic. The HBO series Big Love is going to feature a Mormon...

March 09, 2009

Questions for Wiccans

I came across this on one of my lists – it began as a question...

March 08, 2009

Shortsighted Fools

Among the rest of today's bad news is this article from the Dallas Morning News....

March 08, 2009

Another Church Shooting

This time at a Baptist church in Illinois. The pastor was killed and several parishioners...

March 05, 2009

New Blog on Science and Religion

I just came across a very interesting blog on the Discover Magazine site, called Reality...

March 04, 2009

Religion on Three Levels, continued

Something I forgot to include in the last entry: the challenge for religious groups is...

March 02, 2009

Religion on Three Levels

At his seminar on The Ancient Roots of Liberal Religion, Rev. Davidson Loehr said that...

March 01, 2009

Wisdom from Joseph Campbell

I just finished reading The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. It's prep...

February 2009

February 25, 2009

Ash Wednesday – a Pagan perspective

Christians have Lent, Jews have Yom Kippur, and Muslims have Ramadan. All are seasons of...

February 23, 2009

The Meaning of Unitarian Universalism

“The Meaning of Unitarian Universalism” is the rather ambitious (but appropriate, on a couple of...

February 20, 2009

Religious Freedom and its reasonable limits

Via WitchVox, here’s an amusing story from my hometown of Chattanooga. The bad news is...

February 17, 2009

The Prayers of Presidents

Most of us don’t know about it or choose to ignore it, but each Saturday...

February 16, 2009

The Dangers of Sacred Texts

Gus diZerega keeps a Pagan blog on Beliefnet. In an entry inspired by a wider...

February 12, 2009

How Your Brain Creates God… or Maybe Not

New Scientist magazine has an interesting article titled “Born believers: How your brain creates God.”...

February 10, 2009

The First Word

I just finished reading The First Word by Christine Kenneally, which was a birthday present...

February 07, 2009

Metaphorical Gods vs. Reality/God

Rev. Michael DowdEvolutionary Evangelist Michael Dowd has a very good essay titled “Metaphorical gods vs....

February 02, 2009

Are The Gods Immortal?

Today’s question on the Ethical Witches list asks about the nature of the gods. In...

January 2009

January 31, 2009

The Dreaded Knock on the Door

There is a Jehovah’s Witness “Kingdom Hall” less than a mile from my house –...

January 26, 2009

The Limits of Wisdom Teaching

Another interesting bit from yesterday was Rev. Loehr’s comments on the Jesus Seminar, where he...

January 25, 2009

Salvation by Character

This afternoon Rev. Dr. Davidson Loehr led a seminar on “The Ancient Origins of Liberal...

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