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November 2014

November 04, 2014

Samhain and Remembrance

The Pagan festivals are less about a single day when we reflect on or celebrate...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Ancestor Work: It’s Not Always About “Honoring”

Ancestor work is not always about remembering the positive. Sometimes, it can be about demanding...

October 29, 2014

Storytime: Wayland’s Tale

Once there was a god who wanted to try his luck as a man. It...

October 22, 2014

The Thirteen Vanic Virtues

The Vanir have their own set of virtues...

October 15, 2014

Art, Agriculture, and Ancestors

Each year in October we move as pilgrims through the rural landscape, stopping at each...

October 13, 2014

Beloved dead

Why so few memories of my grandpa? Because my parents grew up in the Exclusive...

October 08, 2014

Joy at the Breakfast Table

Maybe this is the best we can do for each other, ever: to keep a...

October 02, 2014

Ancestors

There are different types of ancestors - family members, ancestors of spirit, ancestors of place,...

October 01, 2014

When Storymaking Fails: Towards a Non-Narrative Theology

I distrust any religion that hands its followers too many answers. Answers close down the...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Storymaking, Artmaking, and the Work of the Soul

Maybe it’s a lifework to piece together the soul from the scraps and bits.

September 23, 2014

This is my home, the country where my heart is

Internationalism and global consciousness is a great thing, and clearly a great impulse for peace...

September 19, 2014

Storytime: Spiritual Geography as Story

First we draw the map. Sometimes the map is a story.

September 18, 2014

Gardnerians, Sacred Lands, Climate Marches, and Other News of Note

What's on my mind and on my reading list this month? Sacred Lands; British-Wicca.com; Sex,...

September 16, 2014

Why I am a polytheist

I have always been drawn to Pagan deities, even before I knew what they were....

September 14, 2014

Systemic racism, othering, and alienation

The first step to rectifying the situation is to acknowledge the endemic racism in the...

September 12, 2014

Dancing and Dowsing: Moving Into Polytheism

I went to a dance class for the first time in years a few days...

September 10, 2014

Polytheist.com

There are many reasons why polytheism is an exciting and vibrant theology that solves many...

September 05, 2014

Guest post: A Field Guide to Pagan Leadership

There are so many types of leadership manifest in any religious culture. Perhaps identifying and...

September 03, 2014

My Three R’s: Running, wRiting, and Resiliency

Don't think it is easy to hit rock bottom, turn around and say, Okay, again,...

September 01, 2014

Anti-kink and transphobia have no place in Paganism

It may not be your cup of tea, but at least make an effort to...

August 2014

August 19, 2014

Walking away from Omelas

Have you read Ursula Le Guin's classic short story, The ones who walk away from...

August 14, 2014

Indigenous peoples

When they are ripped out of their environment, lifeways, and culture, they do not flourish....

August 09, 2014

Why do we need labels?

I have been asked twice recently why people need labels for sexual orientations and gender...

August 07, 2014

The boy who was afraid of his own shadow

Tim was a boy who was afraid of his own shadow. It followed him around...

August 06, 2014

Call for Papers: Pagan Consent Culture – Building Communities of Empathy and Autonomy

Yvonne Aburrow and I are pleased to announce that we will be co-editing an anthology...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Shapeshifting, Autism and The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid was …autistic?

July 25, 2014

Surviving Climate Change Requires Collective Action

Our desire that our groups or traditions be ideologically perfect will not serve us now....

July 24, 2014

A tangled web

Whenever I confront my personal ethical choices around sustainability and ecology, I realise that everything...

July 23, 2014

Moving Beyond “Environmentalism”

The world is alive and aware and we are part of it.

July 21, 2014

Finding Our Differences: My Experience of the Polytheist Leadership Conference

Guest post: Julian Betkowski shares his impressions of the recent Polytheist Leadership Conference in Fishkill,...

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