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2015-11-16T17:04:25-04:00

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Grief, Death, and the Wheel of the Year

Last updated on: November 16, 2015 at 5:04 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

This world is beautiful. This life is glorious. It is made of summer sunlight on clear water, and the smell of fresh-cut grass and freshly-poured mead. And it is made of the turf that grows over the grave, and the tears that are shed onto it. Read more

2015-11-10T09:23:35-04:00

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November, and the Nurturing Dark

Last updated on: November 10, 2015 at 9:23 am By Cat Chapin-Bishop

October takes the breath away. But November is the world taking back that breath, taking a rest. November is the world made plain. Read more

2015-10-22T17:21:29-04:00

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Samhain Is My Fertility Festival

Last updated on: October 22, 2015 at 5:21 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I worship the god of the hunt, the horned one who dies and is reborn, he who takes life to feed the people, and also is the life that's taken. His story is a Samhain story: generosity and ruthlessness, and humility and strength, and lust. Life, right in the face of death. Read more

2015-10-08T09:44:26-04:00

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Altruism, Becoming the Crone, and the Grandmother Effect

Last updated on: October 8, 2015 at 9:44 am By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I've been working on my Crone's Wings, and I'm here to tell you: menopause is a nuisance. But it's worth it, because I know that this misery is what has given the human race its weirdly long lifespan. Read more

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2015-09-30T13:17:33-04:00

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The What They Did, Not the What They Are Conversation

Last updated on: September 30, 2015 at 1:17 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

Yes, Black Lives > White Tears. But it's hard to learn when you're in tears, and white allies in the racial justice movement especially have more business calling one another in than calling one another out. Read more

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2015-09-29T15:59:21-04:00

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Why Racism is Paganism’s Business

Last updated on: September 29, 2015 at 3:59 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I am bothered by the idea that racism is a social ill that's somehow outside of the legitimate concerns of Pagans--of white Pagans, anyway. We don't get to be a religion of immanent spirit without caring very much about what happens in the world. Read more

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2015-10-09T09:10:59-04:00

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

Last updated on: October 9, 2015 at 9:10 am By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I've never seen a point in piecing together a purely intellectual theology for an experience as visceral, as immediate, as spiritual communion. I've never found a set of names that didn't invite more argument than it settled, didn't diminish more than it expressed what I encounter in worship. Read more

2015-08-24T16:49:46-04:00

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Lammas Tidings, Late Harvests, and the End.

Last updated on: August 24, 2015 at 4:49 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I am tired, and I hear the shrill music of crickets and cicadas, singing their death song to summer. They, too, feel the urgency: hurry up and shape the future! Hurry up and store what life you can, before winter kills the rest. Read more

2015-07-28T15:45:06-04:00

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The Value of a Garden

Last updated on: July 28, 2015 at 3:45 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I love this little patch of ground we live on. And tending its soil and eating its produce feeds something in me, in us, beyond our bellies alone. Read more

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2015-07-22T19:42:54-04:00

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Toward a Daily Spiritual Practice

Last updated on: July 22, 2015 at 7:42 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

Effortlessness is one of the shapes spiritual practice has. But without the luxury of time, routines are important to sustain a practice over decades. There's a dynamic tension here, between discipline and flow, and both experiences have their place. Read more

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