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March 2014

March 25, 2014

Top 11 Search Terms on Under the Ancient Oaks

Call me a geek, but I love sifting through the analytics and seeing all the...

March 23, 2014

The Temple of Artemis

At first glance Temple of Artemis is far less impressive than other temples I visited...

March 19, 2014

February 2014

February 23, 2014

A Libation Without a Prayer is Just a Spilled Drink

The Pantheacon panel on Sacrifice and Modern Paganism brought five knowledgeable Pagans together for a...

February 20, 2014

Temple of the Morrigan

Have you ever been to a ritual or had a spontaneous religious experience where you’re...

February 18, 2014

Pantheacon Recap

Last year I wrote about my Pantheacon envy. This year I went to Pantheacon. It...

February 16, 2014

Why I Am (Still) a Unitarian Universalist

I’d love to belong to a Pagan organization that does (almost) everything UUs do but...

February 13, 2014

Lessons From the Nye-Ham Debate

I doubt the Nye-Ham debate changed your mind about evolution. I hope it causes you...

February 09, 2014

Thoughts on Death

Our mainstream culture tells us to ignore death and pretend it will never come, but...

February 06, 2014

The Earth, The Gods and The Soul

The Earth, The Gods and The Soul by Brendan Myers is the philosophy book I...

February 04, 2014

Why I Am a Devotional Polytheist

My beliefs about the Gods flow from my experience of the Gods. Of the various...

February 02, 2014

American Horror Story and the Currents of Magic

I had high hopes for American Horror Story: Coven and most of my expectations were...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Nine Things I Think

Nine Things I Think: Pagan Tea Time, retreats and conventions, new music from Damh the...

January 28, 2014

I Reject the Security State

When fear causes you to take reasonable precautions and think about what you’re doing, that’s...

January 26, 2014

Live, Local, and Low Cost

On a beautiful January day in Houston, 89 Pagans from a wide variety of traditions...

January 23, 2014

A Pagan Faith

The conflation of belief with faith and faith with religion is a particularly unhelpful result...

January 21, 2014

Interview With Gary Andrews

Gary Andrews is the director and producer of The Spirit of Albion, the 2012 independent...

January 19, 2014

Martin Luther King Jr. on Mystery Religions

As a seminary student in 1950, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a paper titled “The...

January 16, 2014

Reincarnation and the Limits of Science

A professor at the University of Virginia has cataloged 2500 cases of children with past...

January 12, 2014

Vision of a Pagan Future

Paganism needs institutions if it’s going to become the societal force we need it to...

January 09, 2014

Pagan Worship

I worship the Gods who call to me, who challenge me to live according to...

January 07, 2014

This Year Has Goals

Instead of making New Year's resolutions, I select a theme for each year. My no-goals...

January 05, 2014

Interdependence and the Weakness of Evolution

We are interdependent with each other, with other species, and with the Earth herself. A...