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June 2016

June 12, 2016

Let’s Talk About Gender

Gender is a difficult concept. I literally have no idea why some activities, clothing styles,...

June 10, 2016

Hex The System, Bind The Perpetrator

If a man assumes he is entitled to physical contact (sexual or otherwise) with a...

June 08, 2016

We Are Rising

The Queer Ones are rising. We are rising out of the woods, out of the...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Why I am a Wiccan (video)

What is Wicca? Why I am a Wiccan. Video of an address given at the...

May 30, 2016

Heresy is Good

Heresy means choosing a path. Isn't that what Paganism is meant to be all about?

May 26, 2016

Books for Kids

So, you want to share your Pagan world-view and values with your kids, without indoctrinating...

May 24, 2016

The Sacred Fool

Humour skewers the powerful and the pompous, pricking their bubble of self-importance. That's why authoritarians...

May 20, 2016

City of Refuge, by Starhawk (Book Review)

CITY OF REFUGE is refreshingly humble. Although it portrays earth-based spirituality, permaculture, sacred sexuality, nonhierarchical...

May 16, 2016

What Does An Inclusive Coven Look Like?

Inclusive Wicca is about being inclusive towards everyone, regardless of sexuality, ethnicity, disability, or other...

May 11, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: the Need to Ground and Shield

Creativity is by its nature radical. Grounding and shielding helps us protect ourselves when the...

May 10, 2016

The Moon and the Sea

I have always had a bit of a thing about the Moon, and everything associated...

May 09, 2016

Finding a Compromise: Keeping Places

Respect For the Dead In any discussion of what to do with human remains, I...

May 07, 2016

Metaphors for Religion

There are many different metaphors floating about for religions, and each one illuminates something different...

May 05, 2016

Respect, Memory, and Human Remains

In 2008, I founded a group, Pagans for Archaeology. I did that because I believe...

May 04, 2016

Cultural Appropriation and Racism

In my last post on cultural appropriation (Cultural Appropriation has nothing to do with "Race"),...

May 02, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: The Need to Slow

One cannot seek endarkenment with the clock ticking or the timer going off.

April 2016

April 30, 2016

On Poetry: A Conversation

Sarah Sadie and I decided to write a different kind of blogpost - a conversation....

April 28, 2016

You’ll Never Walk Alone

I congratulate the Hillsborough families for their victory. Justice at last. The names of the...

April 27, 2016

How to Become a Naturalist

Pagans often say that we want to get in touch with Nature. But there are...

April 26, 2016

Plain Speaking on Polytheism

It's good to have descriptions of what a word means, so that labels are mutually...

April 25, 2016

May Morning in Oxford

May Day is coming. This year, May Day falls on a Sunday, which is great...

April 22, 2016

Happy Earth Day

I am delighted to see that EarthDay is trending on Twitter. That means people care...

April 21, 2016

The Brewery of the Gods!

It is well known from the lore that the gods actually have a brewery, not...

April 20, 2016

Hail Eris!

The way things have been going lately, anyone would think that Eris had lobbed an...

April 18, 2016

Polytheism and Apple Pie

John Beckett has a witty and amusing post up about apple pie, vanilla pudding, and...

April 13, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: Embracing Silence

Brainstorming, workshopping, sharing and publishing are all good and necessary parts of the creative life....

April 11, 2016

Cultural Appropriation has nothing to do with “race”

Cultural appropriation is when someone from a colonising or culturally dominant culture takes a ritual...

April 06, 2016

Are Polytheists an Endangered Species?

Why polytheism is the default setting to which religion will always gravitate.

April 04, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: Downward to Darkness

There comes a time when we feel the tug in our gut, the impulse to...

April 01, 2016

The Alchemical Mysteries of Daisy

Few people know that Harry Dacre, the author of the song Daisy Bell, was an...

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