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July 2015

July 15, 2015

Years, Seasons, Moons, and Weeks: The Holiness of Time

Time is holy, and this is the time we have been given, the time we...

July 13, 2015

Top Ten Posts of Our First Six Months

Last Thursday, Nature's Path blog passed its 6 months anniversary. While we've had about 70...

July 08, 2015

In Support of our own: understanding Unitarian Universalist Idealization

The UUA is currently grappling with changes in its ministerial formation process. Today's guest article...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

Children and Religious Education

Finding the balance between not talking about religion and talking about it as the only...

June 14, 2015

Right Relationship and Drawing the Circle Wide

I am calling on UU Pagans who live with privilege in this dimension to apologize,...

June 10, 2015

Spiritual Hygiene

When thinking about both ancient and modern models of spiritual direction within Neo-Pagan or earth-centered...

June 10, 2015

The Hanged Man: Are You Willing to Suffer to Learn?

The Hanged One calls us to examine our assumptions, our certainties about the world we...

June 09, 2015

The CUUPS Podcast #29 – June 2015

The June edition of the CUUPS Podcast has been released. It includes the sermon "Dance...

June 01, 2015

Natural Disasters and A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

By signing this statement we are committing ourselves to a vision. Spiritually, visualization is key...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

The Blessings of Darkness

Darkness is not just the absence of Light; darkness is its own thing. Sometimes it’s...

May 25, 2015

The Polytheist in the Sunday Service

It is intended to be inclusive language, and I very much appreciate that intention, but...

May 22, 2015

The Meditating Pagan

When I learned that I was a pagan, I paused to consider how I was...

May 21, 2015

The UU Church and the Secret Pagans

Secretly in my heart I consider the entire congregation I have joined as “Secret Pagans”...

May 20, 2015

A Magical Reading of UU Initiation: One Woman’s Ordination

A look at my experience of ordination--that most contested of UU initiations--through the eyes of...

May 12, 2015

Origin Stories: What Explanations of Death Teach Us About Life

One of mythology's lasting gifts is how it explores the boundaries between life and death.

April 2015

April 30, 2015

The Gift of the Bees: An Inclusive Beltaine

I love Beltaine. I love flowers. I love early summer. I love sex. I love...

April 27, 2015

A Pagan Perspective on Grace

Does the idea of Grace belong in Pagan religions? I certainly think so!

April 21, 2015

CUUPS is Pagan Lite, So Untrue!

Within my CUUPS chapter there are people following multiple paths, our rituals together reflect a...

April 20, 2015

Pagan and UU Theology: Missiology

I am trying to draw circles around Pagan and Unitarian Universalist (UU) Theologies to see...

April 08, 2015

CUUPS Revisioning – What Do We Want To Be?

The CUUPS Revisioning process has reached the next milestone and we need your input. Our...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

Nearer, my Goddess, to Thee: Divine Communion and Mental Illness

Aspecting–the art of nudging one’s personality “to the side” and safely letting an entity or...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Taking our Place in the Web of All Existence

For most of us, we are born and raised largely unaware of our position in...

February 18, 2015

A Unitarian Universalist Pagan's Thoughts on Ash Wednesday

Paganisms are, at their best, traditions that embrace the whole of human—and non-human—experience. That broad...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

If Unitarian Universalism is so great, Why am I 'still' a Pagan?

Not long ago I was asked why I was ‘still’ a Unitarian Universalist? It turns...

January 29, 2015

Home for the (February) Holidays: Imbolc, Brigid, and the Union of Opposites

Imbolc, a moment which goes by many names (including Groundhog Day!), is a beautiful combination...

January 28, 2015

CUUPS – Who We Are

What is CUUPS? Over the past few months we’ve conducted a series of surveys to...

January 22, 2015

Ancient Religion in Modern Life

A Pagan and a Unitarian Universalist - how multiple spiritual identities can come together to...

January 14, 2015

Orientation along the Path: What it means to convert to Unitarian Universalism from Paganism

being a Unitarian Universalist, and also a practicing, earth-centered pagan offers an expansion of what...

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