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January 2017

January 15, 2017

What Does Victory Look Like For You?

What does it mean to win? What does victory look like for you? If you...

January 01, 2017

Divination by Coloring Book – A Preview of 2017

Adult coloring books are intended to be a means to relax without drugs or alcohol,...

December 2016

December 13, 2016

9 Thoughts on Current Events

Thoughts on the Ghost Ship fire tragedy, public funding for the arts, fake news, book...

November 2016

November 13, 2016

Five Days Later

I can’t tell you everything’s going to be OK, because it’s not. I encourage you...

November 09, 2016

We Don’t Have Time For Blame

Come January 20, Donald Trump will be President. Regardless of how angry, hurt, or scared...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

The Tactics and Strategy of Bad Choices

If your conscience tells you to vote for Jill Stein, then vote for Jill Stein...

October 25, 2016

The Challenges of Oracular Leadership

Some messages from the Gods are mysteries to be pondered. Others are orders that require...

October 23, 2016

A Community is a Living Thing

Our Pagan groups are more than collections of individuals. They’re living things with their own...

October 20, 2016

A 2016 Voter’s Guide

Please vote. Vote your conscience. Vote in all the races. Vote for Hillary Clinton for...

October 16, 2016

Who Is My Co-Religionist?

We can have our own beliefs and refine them in conversation with others. We can...

October 02, 2016

Where Does Religion End and Politics Begin?

Most of us say we want to keep religion out of politics, but where does...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

The Persistence of a Polytheist

Call it dedication. Call it devotion. Call it stubbornness. I’m calling it the persistence of...

September 25, 2016

Mainstream Paganism

I’m happy to see Pagan concepts and values make their way into the mainstream culture,...

September 11, 2016

Druids, Polytheism, and Impermanence

What do an OBOD camp and the Buddhist principle of impermanence have to do with...

September 08, 2016

Building Our Polytheism

In a local, face-to-face group, you quickly learn what’s worth fighting over and what isn’t....

September 06, 2016

My Religion is a Religion of Relationships

As anyone who has ever been in any kind of a romantic partnership will attest,...

September 01, 2016

Polytheism Doesn’t Need Saving, It Needs Practicing

We have everything we need to restore polytheism and our many polytheist religions to a...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

Resetting the Conversation on Purity

We have been unable to separate debate on polytheist concepts from our feelings about individual...

August 23, 2016

You Are What Your Record Says You Are

The AFA’s recent announcement drops all pretense, but their record has long shown they’re a...

August 21, 2016

A Service of Reconsecration

Yesterday, the Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship held a Reconsecration ceremony following eight months of repairs...

August 08, 2016

Many Gods West: Showing Up

I had a great time at the 2016 Many Gods West conference, but there were...

August 07, 2016

Building Polytheist Community – Put the Gods at the Center

My presentation from Friday’s “Building Polytheist Community” panel discussion at the Many Gods West conference...

August 01, 2016

A Savior Isn’t Coming

One of the advantages of getting old is knowing what’s coming next because you’re seeing...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

Building Contemporary Indigenous Polytheism

Without a cultural context and foundation, a religious or spiritual practice is at best weakened...

July 14, 2016

A Pagan in Texas

There’s a lot that’s wrong with Texas and if you’d rather live somewhere else I...

July 05, 2016

Why the Gods Come Before Politics

Good religion has both an internal focus and an external focus; an Otherworldly focus and...

June 2016

June 26, 2016

Today Brexit, Tomorrow President Trump

Ordinary people are angry and frustrated and rightly so. But too many are blaming their...

June 21, 2016

Tending the Temple

The Summerland stone circle exists because of James Stevens and his vision of a lasting...

June 19, 2016

Wondering About Mental Illness

Our common definition of mental illness is far too broad and our understanding of ordinary...

June 14, 2016

Go Make The World Better

If you yearn for a simple answer in the face of these tragedies, it means...