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2020-09-20T01:39:04+00:00

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Pagans, Bring Out Your Dead

Last updated on: September 20, 2020 at 1:39 am By Peter Dybing

Peter Dybing writes about Samhain on Nature's Sacred Journey, and that sometimes honoring the dead means fighting the oppression under which they suffered. Read more

2015-10-30T05:00:06+00:00

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Samhain Through the Faces of Old Women

Last updated on: October 30, 2015 at 5:00 am By Maggie Beaumont

At first, I see nothing; then my own face swims into focus; then I see the face of my mother. I turn back to the Witch. “I see the passage of time,” I say, “in the faces of old women.” Read more

2015-10-29T06:00:52+00:00

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Circles Within Circles – UU Paganism, Community and World

Last updated on: October 29, 2015 at 6:00 am By J.K. Hildebrand

Having returned last week from the Parliament of the World Religions in Salt Lake City, I am present to the rich spiritual and religious practices we as human beings hold. It was incredible as a Unitarian Universalist Pagan to participate with practitioners of a variety of earth and nature centered traditions worldwide. It was also amazing to see how UU Pagans in general are part of this larger community and have really taken the international UU community. I stopped into... Read more

Parliament of the World Religions

2015-10-28T05:00:55+00:00

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7 Ways to Enjoy a Death-Free Samhain

Last updated on: October 28, 2015 at 5:00 am By Alison Leigh Lilly

If there’s one thing people like more than having sex, it’s avoiding death and thoughts thereof. So, what better way to capture the attention of a wider audience than to share a list of ways to celebrate a sanitized, commercialized version of this most holy of Pagan holidays? Read more

2015-10-27T05:17:24+00:00

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Kuan Yin

Last updated on: October 27, 2015 at 5:17 am By Dan Harper

Kuan Yin, one of the most gender fluid of Bodhisattvas. "If they must be saved by someone in the body of the wife of an Elder, a layman, a minister of state, or a Brahman, he [sic] will manifest in a wife’s body and speak Dharma for them." Read more

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2015-10-23T06:22:31+00:00

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Between The Worlds

Last updated on: October 23, 2015 at 6:22 am By Melanie Morel-Ensminger

Rev. Melanie Morel-Ensminger shares what Samhain is like in her hometown, New Orleans. Read more

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Unitarian Universalism

2015-10-22T05:00:45+00:00

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Entering Nature

Last updated on: October 22, 2015 at 5:00 am By Guest Contributor

Mary de La Valette shares another of her poems with us from her home in New Brunswick, Canada. Read more

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2015-10-21T05:01:25+00:00

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Samhain, Ancestors, and Descendants

Last updated on: October 21, 2015 at 5:01 am By Rev. Catharine Clarenbach

Samhain is a high holy day—for some of us the holiest night of the year—and I try to celebrate it with the solemnity and glory it merits. Samhain expanded is all about the ethic of responsibility, expressed through calling out to ancestors and descendants, those who live in the shadows beyond the Veil of Life-and-Death. Read more

2015-10-20T05:16:57+00:00

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Fudo Myoo

Last updated on: October 20, 2015 at 5:16 am By Dan Harper

Fudo Myoo is a Japanese Buddhist deity, one of the Five Great Kings, or Godai Myoo. Read more

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2015-10-19T05:07:19+00:00

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Memoir at Samhain: Hearing our Ancestors, Finding Our Voice

Last updated on: October 19, 2015 at 5:07 am By Amy Beltaine

Memoir – Samhain, All Souls, Day of the Dead. This time of year the veil between the living and mystery is thin and we remember our those who have gone before. Memory can lighten the burden of grief, create meaning, or create a container for the next chapter. What is your memoir? What is your story? We need your voice. In a voiced community we all flourish! My mother raised my sister and me on stories. When I flip through our photo... Read more

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