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August 2016

August 26, 2016

Paganism and the Body Class Sneak Peek

This Fall I'm offering Paganism and the Body, a 14-week graduate-level online class in body...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Poem on a Birthday

All the myths and stories tell us the gift exists to be transformed and passed...

June 2016

June 08, 2016

We Are Rising

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

May 2016

May 24, 2016

The Sacred Fool

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

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...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

How to Become a Naturalist

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

April 04, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: Downward to Darkness

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

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...

January 2016

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 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 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 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...

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...

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,...

May 2015

May 17, 2015

Spirituality – let the buyer beware

Every time I have an encounter with someone who has an interest in spirituality, and...

July 2014

July 18, 2014

Embodiment and Woundedness: Owning Up to Being an Animal

When I stepped into the waters of Lake Superior, I recognized the sensation exactly: I’ve...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Eco-spirituality in practice

Eco-spirituality involves relating to your environment. It is a non-violent spirituality and spiritual activism. One...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

Human Flesh: Beginning a Pagan Theology

Most theologies begin with considering the nature of divinity, with the nature of humanity as...