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July 2015

July 13, 2015

Even the Trees Have Moved

The only things of permanence we human beings have ever created have been dead. Cathedrals...

July 04, 2015

Are We the Land?

My religion is connection. My bare feet curl against the wet and gritty stone of...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Do I Pray?

I find I don't like the words prayer as a noun or pray as a...

June 09, 2015

A Teacher of the Year

I don't need a teaching award. I don't even want one: what would it be...

June 03, 2015

My Gods Don’t Like Racism

It has been my experience that above all else, Herne is a god of truth,...

April 2015

April 11, 2015

On Prayer: An Online Shrine to the Victims of Racism

I'm writing these words less than a week after yet another unarmed black man, 50...

March 2015

March 09, 2015

Confronting Racism, Yankee Pagan Style

I am a white American. I didn't ask to have anyone cheated out of anything....

February 2015

February 20, 2015

Real Anti-racism Will Involve Mistakes

The truth is, racism has touched everybody. Everybody has internalized, implicit racism--certainly every white person....

February 05, 2015

Embodied Spirituality

Shouldn't the bodies of the spiritually enlightened be healthy forever? Pretty to think spiritual work...

February 02, 2015

An Open Letter to Winter at Imbolc

You bring us beauty, like soft, white snowfalls and glittery ice, hanging like jewels from...

January 2015

January 24, 2015

Peace and the Language of the Unheard

Peace is effortful. Peace will involve struggle. And though I would never agree that violence...

January 04, 2015

Every Minute Peace: Releasing my Inner Corgi

Some of the time, Peace requires us to sign petitions, protest, carry signs, and practice...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

Discernment and the Spiritual Activist, Part II: Stewardship

Anyone who works at walking a path of spiritual activism for very long will develop...

December 14, 2014

Stillness at Solstice

Over the years, our celebrations have evolved--but they have retained as much acceptance of the...

December 08, 2014

Discernment and the Spiritual Activist, Part I: Injustice

It's not enough to "not be racist." Racial injustice is bred into the body of...

November 2014

November 27, 2014

The Blessings of Foreign Gods

I had accepted the blessing of a foreign God. The Jews of the Old Testament...

November 18, 2014

An Island in an Ocean of Air

1979 in Williamsburg, Virginia was not an easy time or place to be gay. "There...

November 06, 2014

Practicing

A few years back, I accepted a challenge to commit to a "regular spiritual practice."...

November 02, 2014

We Do Not Have to Be Broken

I forget, so often, that prayer--that communing with Spirit and with the concerns that are...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Honoring an Ancestor

So today, on Samhain, I've been reminded of my longstanding sense of connection to Ann...

October 11, 2014

A Love Letter

This is my love letter to the servant-leaders of the world. Being a leader, a...

October 03, 2014

Yeah, It Really Is About Race

This story isn't about Ferguson, Missouri alone. It's about every city and every town in...

September 2014

September 21, 2014

Stories that Last

To write is to share the truth of your life, your heart. To teach is...

September 14, 2014

Prayer for Today

If I were to write my own ‘prayer for today’ to bring before the Gods...

September 07, 2014

What Do You Mean, “God,” Cat?

As a Pagan, I learned to listen to the spirit within the parts, and of...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

On Privilege

Schoodic Lake is beautiful. But too often, beauty seems either reserved for the very rich,...

August 12, 2014

Hands-On Worship

What does it mean to worship a god or goddess of smiths, but never to...

August 09, 2014

My Polytheistic, Mystic, Monist Heart

Setting aside thoughts on how lots of people seem to substitute a blind adherence to...

July 2014

July 18, 2014

A Pagan Isaiah

I want a Pagan Isaiah. I want us to know, to be absolutely and utterly...

July 10, 2014

A Perfect Day

Every year, I get to ask myself, what is the right way to live? In...

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