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November 2012

November 12, 2012

Redemption

Star Foster has a post on her new blog titled “Redemption: Even Pagans Need Deliverance.”...

November 09, 2012

Gateways to More

Fellow OBOD Druid Dana Driscoll has a post on her blog about how she became...

November 07, 2012

This is Progress – Now Get Back to Work

This is what political progress looks like: a few more wins, a few less losses,...

November 05, 2012

Vote!

Tomorrow is Election Day in the United States and I strongly encourage everyone who can...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Samhain Journey

There’s a lot going on tonight. There’s handing out candy to trick or treaters and...

October 29, 2012

Dreams

Most of my dreams fall into the category of routine sorting and filing – my...

October 25, 2012

Politics, Magic and Your True Will

“If you’re not outraged you’re not paying attention.” I can’t find the original source for...

October 23, 2012

Circles

Why do Pagans gather in circles? Why do we cast circles? What does the circle...

October 22, 2012

The Challenges of Large Public Rituals

Teo Bishop has a new blog post titled “I Felt Ashamed At Pagan Pride.” He...

October 19, 2012

News and Notes

The Patheos Pagan Channel is getting thin. There have been several Pagan defections from Patheos...

October 17, 2012

Why I Am Spiritual and Religious

There’s a new Pew Research study out on the rise of the religiously unaffiliated or...

October 15, 2012

Celtic Heritage

One of the ways we learn about our gods, goddesses and ancestors is through their...

October 12, 2012

Ancestors

James Francis Beckett (1864 - 1923)When asked to define Paganism, I usually give a threefold...

October 09, 2012

From Sunday to Monday

On this blog I write what I think, what I feel, and occasionally what I’m...

October 04, 2012

Blogroll Update

It’s time to update the blogroll. I’ve removed some people who are no longer blogging...

October 01, 2012

Full Moon Scrying

For someone who loves elaborate formal ritual as much as I do, my solitary rituals...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

Sharon Knight in Denton – November 10

The Denton Covenant of UU Pagans presents Sharon Knight in concert on Saturday, November 10...

September 25, 2012

Paying the Preacher, Paying the Druid

with the Rev. Don Dunn, October 10, 1987When Cathy and I got married in 1987...

September 23, 2012

Anger

Someone I love has been hurt and I am angry. Blood-boiling, curse-spitting angry. A blood...

September 20, 2012

Slave, Servant or Co-worker

Yesterday I ended with the question “what do the goddesses and gods want from us?”...

September 19, 2012

This I Believe, This I Do

Recently there’s been some fighting between hard polytheists and humanistic Pagans on the nature of...

September 17, 2012

East Coast Gathering 2012

Now that I’ve told my big story I want to share my impressions of the...

September 16, 2012

Ordination

I’m back from the 2012 OBOD East Coast Gathering in Medford, Pennsylvania. Denton CUUPS is...

September 10, 2012

What Scares Me

Teo Bishop has a post on Patheos titled “Paganism Beyond the Warm and Fuzzy.” He...

September 06, 2012

The Parthenon

In looking through some notes today I realized that while I’ve written about five of...

September 04, 2012

As Fast as a Speeding Oak

I intended yesterday’s post on the perspective of the gods to be about the importance...

September 03, 2012

The Perspective of the Gods

Millions of years of evolution have given us the instinct to live for today –...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Describing the Indescribable

Following on the heels of the Catholic grandfather whose nine year old granddaughter is a...

August 28, 2012

The Paganism of a Child

Star Foster found this beautiful story of a Catholic grandfather whose nine year old granddaughter...

August 24, 2012

Building a Real Religion

Jeff Lilly had a Google+ post yesterday (that I apparently can’t link directly to) where...

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