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November 2012

November 07, 2012

Samhain’s End

Samhain ended for me sometime near 3:30 am early Sunday Morning on November 4 when...

November 05, 2012

Voting is Ours

I feel like posting anything unrelated to the Election would get overlooked, so I'm here...

November 01, 2012

Jesus Seems To Be Whatever People Want Him to Be

Christianity is the dominant religion in the United States and in much of the Western...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

Samhain Ritual & The Goddess of Death

When I can find time to break away from writing "Raise the Horns" I enjoy...

October 14, 2012

Honoring The Ancestors (Or Not)

Every Samhain I'm confronted with several rituals that call for "honoring the ancestors," (or sometimes...

October 03, 2012

Election Fatigue

Like many of you, I'm suffering from "election fatigue." I know that elections are important...

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Mercury Retrowhat? Oh Astrology . . . . .

You might have missed the announcement a couple of days ago, but Patheos recently launched...

September 12, 2012

Can Satanists Also Be Pagans?

Can a Satanist also be a Pagan? Maybe? Probably? Absolutely not? What's certain is that...

September 04, 2012

The Confusions and Confessions of a Pagan Football Fan

I love football, which makes me normal in a lot of places, but not so...

August 2012

August 21, 2012

Strange Days: T. Rexstacy and Marc Bolan of T. Rex

(I’ve always been fascinated by the occult overtones of Rock and Roll and Heavy Metal....

August 17, 2012

Gateways to Paganism: Paul Huson’s “Mastering Witchcraft”

Certain books, musicians, and movies have led many to the Pagan Path. Paul Huson's "Mastering...

August 10, 2012

Faces of the Horned God: Herne the Hunter

Herne is a god, a folktale, and a ghost-story; he's also the only god who...

August 07, 2012

Finding The God

How does one find the God? Perhaps the gods find us and we don't have...

August 02, 2012

Why I Can’t Quite Reject Jesus

A Pagan comments on his feelings about Jesus.

July 2012

July 27, 2012

Lily Dale: A Rainy Day with the Spirits

A skeptic visits the Spiritualist community of Lily Dale, witnesses a few spirit readings, and...

July 25, 2012

Ritual Criticism

It's probably not obvious, but I'm pretty sensitive about my Paganism. I'm not sensitive about...

July 10, 2012

Ramble On: Pagan Festivals as Re-creation

(I thought writing on the road would be easy, I was wrong. I probably made...

July 02, 2012

The (Pagan) Declaration of Independence

American Conservatives, and especially Evangelical Christians on the right, have a tendency to claim "ownership"...

June 2012

June 11, 2012

Check the exposure something’s wrong with this picture . . . . . . .

I can’t believe that I’m here on Patheos; posting next to The Pagan Soccer Mom...

April 2012

April 19, 2012

We All Come From the Horned God, possibly, but don’t Sing it . . . . .

We all come from the Horned God, and to him we shall return, like a...

October 2011

October 11, 2011

Defining “pagan”

(Before moving over to Patheos I had a much lower profile blog called "Deep Pagan...

September 2011

September 11, 2011

Reflections and Confused-9/11

I'm not sure how I feel today. It's impossible not to think about the tragedy...

September 04, 2011

The Autumn Wind Means Football

In the fall my life revolves around football, college football, professional football, and everything but...

August 2011

August 20, 2011

Robert Plant-Rock God

No English Rocker has aged more gracefully and explored more musical vistas than Plant.