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December 2015

December 24, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Making an Altar

An altar is a focus for devotion, prayer or meditation. It can be simple or...

December 22, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Food

The sharing of food and drink is one of the most ancient and basic rituals...

December 19, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Making a Mandala

A mandala is a twofold meditation tool. The process of creating it is meditative, and...

December 17, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Storytelling

Most spiritual and religious traditions have a corpus of stories which transmit their values and...

December 11, 2015

The Taste of Magic

The kids at the fundamentalist bootcamp for LGBT children were slogging through the mud on...

December 05, 2015

The Gift of Naughtiness

The elves all cheered wildly. At last they would see off those horrible impostors, the...

December 03, 2015

Not In My Name

I wrote this poem in 2003 in response to the Iraq war. It still applies...

December 01, 2015

Possession, Depossession, and Divine Relationships by Diana L. Paxson (Book Review)

Possession, Depossession, and Divine Relationships would make an excellent supporting text for an individual who...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

When We Are Birthing, It Helps to Breathe Through the Pain

When we are birthing, it helps to breathe through the pain. An invitation.

November 06, 2015

Witchcraft: the Middle Way

There is always a middle way between two extremes. Here I attempt to present a...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

In Praise of the Body

The body manifests in many different shapes and sizes and colours. There are female bodies,...

October 09, 2015

Cultural Appropriation and the Blues

The Blues originate from a particular cultural and social history unique to Black people. Yes,...

October 07, 2015

Polarity and Diversity

In my experience, magical polarity can be created by any pair of opposites. Inner and...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Cultural appropriation is about power

What many commentators miss is the power differential in cultural appropriation. People forget that we...

September 29, 2015

Combinations of Difficult Questions #PinkOut

What if a woman’s voice is the tree falling in the forest? What if women's...

September 22, 2015

Shades of Racism

Could it be time to introduce some qualifying adjectives to indicate what level of racism...

September 17, 2015

Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore (Review)

Alan Moore has profoundly influenced the direction of both mainstream and literary comics... plus, he's...

September 15, 2015

Paganism for Beginners: Levels of Symbolism

According to CG Jung, there are three levels of symbolism: personal, cultural, and universal. Personal...

September 14, 2015

Paganism for Beginners: Group Dynamics

The subject of group dynamics is complex, but one way of observing group dynamics is...

September 12, 2015

Teaching and Learning in a Coven

Learning is a collaborative process between the teacher and the learner. It is not the...

September 09, 2015

Madness, Shamanism, and Wicca

The history of madness is long, convoluted, and fascinating. Different theories and treatments have come...

September 08, 2015

Why Dowsing for Divinity?

We decided that the title Sermons from the Mound no longer quite fitted the type...

September 07, 2015

Welcoming the stranger and the refugee

Homer’s Odyssey recounts the correct way to welcome a stranger who has been washed ashore:...

September 04, 2015

Paganism for Beginners: Social Structures

The fact that people can own land, that property is deemed more important than human...

September 02, 2015

Agreeing To Disagree

Arguments make some people uncomfortable. It is true that conflict can be divisive, but it...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Why Do Some People Experience Deities, But Others Don’t?

I have often wondered why some people experience gods all the time - indeed, can't...

August 28, 2015

Wobbling, But Not Falling Off

Jason Mankey has a great post on "When Someone Leaves Paganism" and how to respond...

August 24, 2015

Relational Polytheism: Standing Beside The Gods

Being in right relationship with our fellow embodied beings, and in right relationship with our...

August 20, 2015

Overlapping Circles

I think that theology should always be discursive and not prescriptive. It is not up...

August 18, 2015

The Dawn Of The Gods

In "The Allegory of Love", CS Lewis wrote that in the declining years of ancient...

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