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2014-04-12T10:51:00-04:00

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Responding to Abuse in the Pagan Community: a Wild Hunt Guest post

Last updated on: April 12, 2014 at 10:51 am By Cat Chapin-Bishop

My guest post is up over on The Wild Hunt; it’s on how the Pagan community can respond to the issue of child sexual abuse within our community. For those who may not know, I was a psychotherapist for about twenty years, and my main focus was survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The focus of the Wild Hunt piece is on understanding the dynamics of childhood sexual abuse, and how to build in greater safety and responsiveness in our communities... Read more

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2014-06-17T20:11:16-04:00

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Sacred Fire: What Do I Hope to Build

Last updated on: June 17, 2014 at 8:11 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

We have a guest post running today, over at Sermons from the Mound, part of the ongoing March series on the future of Paganism. If you’d like to read Sacred Fire, head on over and take a look. Read more

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2014-03-23T15:39:00-04:00

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Meeting for Grieving

Last updated on: March 23, 2014 at 3:39 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

Meeting for worship was quite an experience for me today. Of course, Judy Harrow‘s death was on my mind. I felt a poignancy to giving two Quaker elders their ride to meeting today–I was so conscious that what I cannot do for one elder, I am comforted to be able to do for another, so that even carpooling felt like an act of remembrance. Then, as I sat down, and just as I felt myself give way to sadness, one... Read more

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2014-06-17T20:08:34-04:00

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Judy Harrow (1945–2014)

Last updated on: June 17, 2014 at 8:08 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I want to write about Judy, but it’s too hard. It’s like I’m standing too close to something, trying to take a picture. Nothing comes into focus. It’s all too big to fit into the frame. She was family. I guess that’s what it comes down to. She could be maddening; she could be irascible. She sang off key; she made mistakes. She had the most astonishing students you could imagine; she was smart and disciplined and passionate, and she... Read more

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2014-03-11T12:16:00-04:00

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Pipes Lined with Fairy Gold

Last updated on: March 11, 2014 at 12:16 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I wonder, sometimes, how much of my spiritual life is owing to the physical arrangement of books in the Wilbraham Public Library when I was small. I learned to read early; I can’t remember a time when I didn’t know how to read. And in the beginning, I’m sure read what every young child reads: picture books picked out by my parents. The Wilbraham Free Library But my memories of books begin in the Wilbraham Public Library–not the spacious brick... Read more

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2014-01-25T19:17:00-04:00

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Bears Eat My Lettuce

Last updated on: January 25, 2014 at 7:17 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I love where I live; since moving to our new home four years ago, I’ve been able to build a relationship with a piece of land for the first time since I was a child. It’s everything a dirt-worshipping Pagan could ask for. I have a garden, and I grow much of my own food, and that is as much a spiritual delight as a taste treat. And I have woods again as neighbors: glacial boulders, white pines and black... Read more

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2014-06-17T20:17:22-04:00

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Toward a Pagan Commons? A Conversation

Last updated on: June 17, 2014 at 8:17 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

The other day, a Christian friend posted a link to two articles on the phenomenon of celebrity pastors, “The Evangelical Industrial Complex.” And it got me thinking about the similarities and differences that exist, between the evangelical community and within my Pagan community. The issues in the Pagan community are different… but related, I think. “The market”–whether we’re talking about publishing or speakers at large gatherings–is really the only Commons we have for our community; because we have always been... Read more

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2014-07-11T11:51:12-04:00

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Peter on Animal Bones

Last updated on: July 11, 2014 at 11:51 am By Peter Bishop

The Spiritual Journey so far: Prologue I: Peter In Kenya Prologue II: A Liberal Christian With Balls Part I: A Refugee Looks Back Part II: Leaving Home Part III: Who Am I? Part IV: Learning About Race and Gender Part V: Watching My Students Drown Part VI: Animal Bones Sometimes there is a weird overlap between being a science teacher and a Pagan. Walking with my Environmental Science class one day to a graveyard to examine the weathering on different... Read more

2013-11-24T18:46:00-04:00

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With Open Eyes

Last updated on: November 24, 2013 at 6:46 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

About two months ago, I began to wrestle with feelings of anxiety, depression, and a sense of alienation from my Quaker meeting. Very distressingly to me, I began to have these feelings in worship, both while in attendance at my meeting and in my Quaker practice at home during the week. I began to feel unable to sense the Presence whose warmth has marked most, if not all, of my time in worship. And I began to feel a terrible... Read more

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2014-06-17T21:07:03-04:00

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A Cup of Coffee and a Bagel with Christopher Penczak

Last updated on: June 17, 2014 at 9:07 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

Christopher Penczak is coming in November to Awen Tree, our local magickal shop. Reading the announcement tonight, I felt a brief burst of excitement. Christopher Penczak, for those who do not know of his work, is a Wiccan author and teacher whose New Hampshire based Temple of Witchcraft offers classes, rituals, and ministerial training. He does a lot of speaking at Pagan events, and has written many, many books, only one of which I have read. I think it was... Read more

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