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March 2016

March 30, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: Pausing to Get Acquainted with Darkness

All creativity roots itself in the dark, no matter how small or large the idea...but...

March 26, 2016

With Our Thoughts We Make The World

Most religions are a form of metapolitics: their goal is to transform society and individuals...

March 22, 2016

Mystical Polytheism

I have always thought that the deities of Nature are the emergent consciousness of complex...

March 09, 2016

Authority in Religious Traditions

We live in a culture and a time where it's hard to be a polytheist....

February 2016

February 25, 2016

The Devil is in the Detail

It is much easier to say "we don't believe in your mythology at all" than...

February 19, 2016

PAGAN CONSENT CULTURE Anthology Is Available!

How might a Druid understand consent? How about a Wiccan, a Thelemite, a Heathen, or...

February 16, 2016

Making Meaning at the Movies

Has Hollywood Become Our National Conscience? Many 21st-century movies—both animated children’s films and big production...

February 11, 2016

Should Public Expressions of Religion Be Allowed?

Many secularists have argued that no public expressions of religion should be allowed - no...

February 09, 2016

But What About The Tradition?

Truly traditional Pagans should regard LGBTQIA people as an integral part of society. There should...

February 07, 2016

The Gay Roots of the Pagan Revival

It is a little known fact that many of the early pioneers of the Pagan...

February 02, 2016

If You Have A Racist Friend

So you have a racist, sexist, homophobic, white supremacist friend. Your racist friend is perfectly...

January 2016

January 30, 2016

Why We Need Black History Month

Every so often, some ill-informed person opines that we don't need Black History Month, or...

January 28, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Compassion

Spirituality - embodied or otherwise - is merely narcissism and self-indulgence when it doesn't involve...

January 26, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Magical Tools

Tools are levers for affecting the world. You can't tighten a screw without a screwdriver....

January 24, 2016

Spirits of the Land

I have always liked the description of Paganism as nature religion (however inaccurate and unhelpful...

January 22, 2016

The Celts at the British Museum

Last weekend, I saw the Gundestrup Cauldron. It was an amazing, powerful, beautiful experience. Seeing...

January 18, 2016

How To Be An Elder

The first rule of being an elder is not to talk about being an elder....

January 18, 2016

Feet of Clay

It seems to be a tendency in much of contemporary culture, including the Pagan movement,...

January 16, 2016

Pagan and Pantheist Tendencies in Unitarianism

Many people think that the Pagan or Earth Spirit element in Unitarianism started around 1980...

January 14, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Archery

When I am doing archery, I am totally in the moment, totally focussed on hitting...

January 12, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: The Hearth

The hearth is traditionally the place where you honour your ancestors and household gods and...

January 10, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: The Sit Spot

A really great way of experiencing yourself as part of nature is to incorporate the...

January 08, 2016

Pagan Contemplative Prayer

Contemplative prayer is a practice that is fairly simple to understand, but which may take...

January 06, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Grounding and Centering

Many Pagan rituals begin with grounding and centering. It comes from the Taoist tradition originally,...

January 04, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Meditative Walking

There are several different types of meditative walking, from various different spiritual traditions.The theologian St...

January 02, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Walking The Labyrinth

Each person’s journey into the labyrinth is unique, although the labyrinth has a single pathway...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Five Memorable Blogposts of 2015

I read loads of really awesome blogposts and articles in 2015. Bloggers on Patheos Pagan,...

December 30, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Haiku Writing

The haiku is a Japanese form of poetry which evolved out of the philosophy of...

December 28, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Gardening

Gardening is well known to be therapeutic, but it is also deeply spiritual. It is...

December 26, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Meditation Hut

The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids suggest building a meditation hut. The idea of...

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