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June 2026

June 03, 2026

The Gods Are Alive And Speaking

The loudest voices in our wider society scream that there is only one God and...

November 2025

November 05, 2025

The Call of the Morrigan in 2025

The Morrigan is not coming to save us. No one is coming to save us....

June 2025

June 01, 2025

Invoking a God by Sending $1000 to a Televangelist

Televangelist and Trump advisor Paula White claimed that if people would send her $1000 she...

May 2025

May 11, 2025

Good Luck To Pope Leo, But I’m A Pagan

I spent much of Thursday learning more about the new pope, and then it was...

March 2025

March 23, 2025

The Feast of Cernunnos

March 23 is the Feast of Cernunnos. I hope you’ll join me in celebrating the...

February 2025

February 16, 2025

Lugh Isn’t Coming To Slay Balor

“Lugh isn’t coming to slay Balor, and without him the best the Tuatha De Danann...

January 2025

January 05, 2025

Deity Work

Do witches do deity work? Some do and some don’t. But my practice begins with...

December 2024

December 01, 2024

Where Are The Gods In All This?

Is there a spiritual war going on? The forces of Oppression and Conformity certainly think...

July 2024

July 14, 2024

The Necessity of Chaos and the Divinity of Set

A God of inhospitable places and a God of chaos is a God nonetheless. In...

June 2024

June 23, 2024

Why I Believe But Don’t Care If You Do Or Not

When people ask why I believe in the Gods, I’m happy to tell them. But...

May 2024

May 19, 2024

What It Means To Be Thankful “It Could Have Been Worse”

Many people intuitively give thanks when they experience something bad that could have been worse....

March 2024

March 31, 2024

The Call of Cernunnos

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

December 2023

December 11, 2023

An Epistemology of the Many Gods

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with the question of how we know...

July 2023

July 27, 2023

The Return of a Storm Goddess

A handful of people are hearing from a Storm Goddess whose name we can’t determine...

July 23, 2023

Lammas Night and the Sacrifice of Lughnasadh

Lughnasadh celebrates Tailtiu, who cleared the land of Ireland for planting and then died from...

June 2023

June 18, 2023

Was That Really the Morrigan?

An unpleasant encounter with the Morrigan left someone asking if it was really the Great...

June 15, 2023

The Book of Cernunnos is Now Available

The Book of Cernunnos, the new devotional anthology dedicated to the Lord of the Animals...

June 11, 2023

Our Imperfect Perceptions of the Gods

We will never get it perfectly right – we are imperfect humans. But when we’re...

May 2023

May 21, 2023

4 Questions (and Answers) on Relationships With the Gods

Here are four questions on our relationships with our Gods and our obligations to Them.

May 14, 2023

When a God Wants You to Violate Your Ethics

Our Gods are virtuous and They rarely ask us to do things that would violate...

April 2023

April 12, 2023

Patron Deities in Modern Paganism

Some contemporary Pagans and polytheists have patron deities. Most don’t. “Finding your patron deity” is...

January 2023

January 18, 2023

Imbolc: Honoring the Goddess Brighid

Imbolc has several themes, all good and valuable traditions. But for me, Imbolc is first...

January 08, 2023

The Polytheists Who Persist

I fault no one for doing what they need to do to take care of...

December 2022

December 21, 2022

Giving Thanks to the Gods for This Year

When someone – or Someone – is gracious to us, the appropriate response is gratitude....

August 2022

August 15, 2022

All Are Worthy and the Gods Are For Everyone

Gatekeeping the divine is not just a Christian problem. But you need no one’s permission...

August 07, 2022

The Gods And Nature

Are the Gods part of Nature? Some of Them clearly are. Others, I don’t know...

July 2022

July 31, 2022

Masks and Closets

Let’s be honest: the environment is hostile right now. I think it’s safe to assume...

July 27, 2022

Three Messages from Loki to the World

The Norse God Loki delivered three messages in a recent Seiðr ritual, messages that were...

July 24, 2022

The Victory of Lugh

Today’s Sunday service at the Denton UU Fellowship: the story of how Lugh led his...

June 2022

June 19, 2022

Which God are White Christian Nationalists Praying To?

We live in a society dominated by monotheism in general and Protestant Christianity in particular....