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August 2012

August 20, 2012

Fresh Snark: Spreading Some Love (and Hate) on Polyamory: Married & Dating’s Episode 6

With a large mug of coffee and plenty of coughing and sniffling, I steeled myself...

August 19, 2012

Pagans and Family

I am mostly alive today. I've spent days busy dying: coughing, sleeping, shivering and feeling...

June 2012

June 02, 2012

How Gays Are Saving Marriage

I've tried to write this post several times, and simply haven't felt I could rise...

June 01, 2012

Eating God: Considering Eucharistic Ritual

It's not unusual to see Pagans joking about the "cannibalism" of the Christian eucharist. While...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Delphic Maxims: Think As A Mortal (Φρονει θνητα)

I like this Maxim. In the world of religion we spend a lot of time...

May 27, 2012

All About The Love: Congrats to the Wigglian Way!

I don't listen to enough Pagan podcasts. I'd be a better person if I did....

May 23, 2012

Will, The Great Work, World Religions, and Other Things

Wyrd bið ful aræd. (Fate is inexorable.) This is one of my favorite phrases from...

May 19, 2012

Delphic Maxims: Intend To Get Married (Γαμειν μελλε)

This is the first difficult Maxim I have to address, and not nearly the hardest...

May 18, 2012

Beyond Roses Red and Roses White (Possibly NSFW)

Writing can become a bad habit, and a simple question can set loose a torrent...

May 14, 2012

Everybody Say Love

I didn't have a lot of downtime this weekend really, but I'm in a really...

February 2012

February 13, 2012

Opening Up To Love

Tomorrow is Valentines Day, beloved of romantics and dreaded by cynics. Even I, veritable grump...

February 09, 2012

14 Songs for Lupercalia (Valentines Day)

I could use some music today. How about you? I'm officially filing this under 13...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Gingrich Equates Gay Marriage to Paganism Like It’s A Bad Thing…

Newt is awesome. He is so arrogantly oblivious to his own hypocrisy that sometimes I...

January 18, 2012

The Final Episode of Big Love, the Goddess and Alternative Family

NOTICE: This post has been found in violation of H.R. 3261, S.O.P.A. and has been...

December 2011

December 29, 2011

Religion Is Not A Matter Of Style

Yeah, I know. You already hate this post. Just from the title. I don't care....

December 19, 2011

When Interfaith Gets Ugly

Patheos is a diverse place. I tend to think of it like a city with...

November 2011

November 02, 2011

Hospitality is the Law

Hospitality is the foundation of Paganism. Reciprocal relationships, maintaining the right order of things, Ma'at,...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

Feast of The Good Galileans (or Star invents a Holiday)

There are days when I really hate Christians. I loathe them on those days. My...

July 2011

July 25, 2011

Spiritual Warfare Is Essentially Black Magic

Back in 2000, maybe early 2001, there was a big prayer warrior event aimed at...

July 12, 2011

All Acts of Love

Civil rights is the defining issue of our age. My grandparents were born into a...

July 01, 2011

Life, Liberty and the Institution of Marriage?

Yesterday I was reading Timothy Dalrymple's post on the gay marriage debate. Tim's a good...

May 2011

May 20, 2011

Grumpy Star and The Lovers’ Tarot Deck

When the Universe wants you to learn a lesson, it will ask nicely at first,...

May 10, 2011

The Power of Love

Nor does She demand sacrifice, for behold, She is the mother of all living, and...

March 2011

March 31, 2011

Wyrd Designs – Is Heathenry Misogynistic? An Exploration into the Havamal

Through my years as a practicing Heathen in the Northern Tradition, there are certain subjects...

February 2011

February 14, 2011

Love Conquers All

My coven's more or less unofficial motto (we never went through a formal process of...

February 14, 2011

A Quieter Kind of Valentine (UPG inside)

Yesterday Galina Krasskova wrote that she finds Aphrodite terrifying. I get that. Aphrodite doesn't terrify...

February 13, 2011

Happy Aphrodite’s Day? (A Few Curious Ramblings)

Aphrodite scares me. I have this list of Gods and Goddesses in my head (mostly...

January 2011

January 01, 2011

Resolutions, Oaths and Promises

Everyone is busy making their New Year's resolutions and I've already made mine. At Yule,...

October 2010

October 20, 2010

We are Born in Original Blessing

It was ex-Dominican and current American Episcopal priest Matthew Fox who coined the term "Original...

May 2010

May 07, 2010

Ares and Aphrodite make love in Afghanistan

If you have ever had a hard time wrapping your mind around the hot, passionate...