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July 2013

July 01, 2013

Hard Polytheism (Seeking the Mystery, Chp. 1 Excerpt)

Today (Monday, 7/1), Amazon.com will be offering the e-book edition of Seeking the Mystery: An...

June 2013

June 28, 2013

Introductory Pagan Theology Book — $1 Kindle E-Book Sale, Plus Paperback Release!

Amazon.com will be offering the e-book edition of _Seeking the Mystery: An Introduction to Pagan...

June 04, 2013

Visualisation, meditation, and pathworking

Often people use the terms visualisation, meditation and pathworking interchangeably, but they are different techniques,...

June 01, 2013

When knowledge was power

Ritual often seems like an activity designed only for interaction with the preternatural or the...

May 2013

May 27, 2013

Why interfaith is important – an interview with John Macintyre

Recently, after fourteen years of interfaith dialogue and sheer hard work, the Scottish Pagan Federation...

May 20, 2013

Pagans and Academic Publishing

Academic books cost a lot of money and can be hard to get. Why is...

May 17, 2013

Notes toward a Pagan Theology of Fiction

Pagans widely agree that fiction has spiritual power. But what roles does fiction play in...

May 15, 2013

Context is everything

The practice of taking quotes and practices out of context and applying them without regard...

May 02, 2013

The argument from desire

The "argument from desire" is that we all have a "God-shaped hole" in consciousness, which...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

News and Notes – Pagan Theology and Scholarship

Sacred Lands conference, summer Contemporary Global Paganisms course at Cherry Hill Seminary, and crowdsourcing Pagan...

April 29, 2013

The varieties of religious experience

Having distinctive religious traditions matters because each tradition expresses a distinctive identity, philosophy, tradition, set...

April 24, 2013

The Pagan umbrella is leaking

The "Pagan umbrella" is leaking, but I think we need to look at ways to...

April 22, 2013

Metaphors can kill

Metaphors are a very powerful thing. They can dictate how we we see the world,...

April 20, 2013

Tradition

Tradition is something that grows and evolves. It is not set in stone, but is...

April 19, 2013

Today in Boston

Like everyone else in Boston, I am wholly distracted by the manhunt for the Boston...

April 18, 2013

Fundamentalism

What is fundamentalism? Is it all bad? Can the term 'fundamentalist' be applied to Pagans?

April 17, 2013

Interview with Christine Hoff Kraemer on Albion Calling

I was honored this week by an interview by Dr. Ethan Doyle White for his...

April 16, 2013

What is the foundation of Pagan ethics?

Pagans don't have a holy book with commandments from a deity. We tend to derive...

April 14, 2013

Values, beliefs, practices

What makes you a Pagan? Is it what you believe, what you do, or something...

April 12, 2013

Aspects of initiation

In my view, there are six separate aspects to initiation. There is the inner process...

April 10, 2013

Five questions about Paganism

(1) How is paganism different? (2) What is the significance of its difference? (3) What...

April 10, 2013

Atheist critiques of religion

I think the atheist critique does religions a great service - it's like having an...

April 08, 2013

Religion and humour

Part of the function of humour is to subvert the accepted order of things. Whenever...

April 06, 2013

What is magic and how does it work?

A friend on Facebook asked, how does magic work? My immediate response to this was,...

April 05, 2013

Why I Am a Pagan

I am Pagan because no other way makes sense. The living world speaks to me...

April 04, 2013

Ritual, liturgy, and worship

There are several different modes of ritual, which have different meanings and purposes. When writing...

April 02, 2013

Energy

If there is any objective external reality to the energies that Pagans talk about, then...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

Deities and divinity

There are many different views of how deities relate to each other and to the...

March 30, 2013

Why I am a Wiccan

Wicca is my tribe, my sangha, my dharma. Even when other Wiccans drive me crazy,...

March 29, 2013

Pagans and religious education

Some people might argue that Paganism benefits from its counter-cultural status, and that teaching it...

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