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March 2017

March 08, 2017

Goodbye to Patheos Pagan Channel

This will be our last post for the Patheos Pagan channel. We'll keep writing, and...

February 2017

February 20, 2017

Facing Death/Facing Life

Our hemlock tree is dying. Seventy feet tall or more, its feathery top boughs filter...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

Peter on Mysticism and Facebook in a Time of Crisis

Lately I find myself very reluctant to post on Facebook about Rilke, or anything about...

November 13, 2016

Peter on the Election

Defeated, he would still have made hate speech part of ordinary political discourse. When his...

November 11, 2016

A Time of Retirement

What does a spiritual writer do when life spirals out of control? What do you...

July 2016

July 25, 2016

Barefoot Paganism

I'm not the only way that Pagans grow into our religion. But I am one...

July 15, 2016

Peter on the Otherworld, Truth-Telling, and Racism

In the rally, we chant Black lives matter! and The killing has to stop! We...

July 04, 2016

To the Pagan Community: A Love Letter

Real community crosses boundaries. Real community has ragged edges: children and parents, lovers and spouses...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Where the Magic Lives

There is something different about what is physically there, and what is spiritually there, as...

June 21, 2016

Elders and the Dance

"Elder" is not a role we get to choose, however we may hunger for it....

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Why Black Lives Matter Too, Godless Paganism, and Pagan Consent Culture

Four essays of mine have been published in new anthologies, and I'm especially thrilled to...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Cat, It’s Beltane

Only I could turn Beltane into yet another guilt trip. But only Peter could remind...

April 24, 2016

Dear Sign Thief

Dear Thief Who Keeps Stealing My Black Lives Matter Sign, Thank you. While I realize...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

Community and the Practice of Love

All of us are loved. All of us have the potential to become whole--more like...

February 03, 2016

Writing the Spiritual Life

To write about Spirit is to risk distorting or distracting from the experience itself, whether...

January 2016

January 23, 2016

Anticipating Imbolc

Over the past few weeks, I have been sensing in my body that something important...

January 18, 2016

Why I’m Uneasy with Martin Luther King Day

I wish I had never seen this, but I've actually seen it more times than...

January 07, 2016

On Nature, Human Ugliness and the Problem of Evil

This world is so beautiful. And yet, in spite of that, we humans manage to...

December 2015

December 10, 2015

How to Have a Perfect Yule

Families change. Traditions evolve; we craft some that are new, and others we must lay...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Walking through Grief and Loss

Grief is a skill, and one that improves with use.

November 16, 2015

Grief, Death, and the Wheel of the Year

This world is beautiful. This life is glorious. It is made of summer sunlight on...

November 10, 2015

November, and the Nurturing Dark

October takes the breath away. But November is the world taking back that breath, taking...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

Samhain Is My Fertility Festival

I worship the god of the hunt, the horned one who dies and is reborn,...

October 07, 2015

Altruism, Becoming the Crone, and the Grandmother Effect

I've been working on my Crone's Wings, and I'm here to tell you: menopause is...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

The What They Did, Not the What They Are Conversation

Yes, Black Lives > White Tears. But it's hard to learn when you're in tears,...

September 28, 2015

Why Racism is Paganism’s Business

I am bothered by the idea that racism is a social ill that's somehow outside...

September 22, 2015

Theism, or Down to the Sea (Of Limitless Light)

I've never seen a point in piecing together a purely intellectual theology for an experience...

August 2015

August 24, 2015

Lammas Tidings, Late Harvests, and the End.

I am tired, and I hear the shrill music of crickets and cicadas, singing their...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

The Value of a Garden

I love this little patch of ground we live on. And tending its soil and...

July 22, 2015

Toward a Daily Spiritual Practice

Effortlessness is one of the shapes spiritual practice has. But without the luxury of time,...

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