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November 2016

November 15, 2016

The safety pin: a reminder to resist bigotry

If you see someone being attacked (whether physically or verbally), don’t stay silent. If the...

September 2016

September 06, 2016

Creating Meaningful Public Ritual

We have all been to rituals that fell flat, or didn't work as intended. We...

September 03, 2016

Living Traditions

A culture, and a religion, is a massively complex system of interlocking ideas, philosophies, symbols,...

August 2016

August 06, 2016

Hospitality for the Stranger

Both hospitality and reciprocity are Pagan virtues and have been since ancient times. Honour is...

May 2016

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 09, 2016

Finding a Compromise: Keeping Places

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

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"),...

April 2016

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 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...

March 2016

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 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 09, 2016

But What About The Tradition?

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

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 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 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 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...