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November 2016

November 22, 2016

A Meditation: The Trees and the Forest

October 2016

October 04, 2016

Erotic Religion: The Body and Sex for Wiccans and Pagans

For Wiccans, witches, and many other Pagans, the sexual body is a site of religious...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

My Polytheism

One of the things I really like about polytheism is its inherent plurality. Gods and...

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 31, 2016

Why I am a Wiccan (video)

What is Wicca? Why I am a Wiccan. Video of an address given at the...

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 21, 2016

The Brewery of the Gods!

It is well known from the lore that the gods actually have a brewery, not...

April 20, 2016

Hail Eris!

The way things have been going lately, anyone would think that Eris had lobbed an...

April 18, 2016

Polytheism and Apple Pie

John Beckett has a witty and amusing post up about apple pie, vanilla pudding, and...

April 06, 2016

Are Polytheists an Endangered Species?

Why polytheism is the default setting to which religion will always gravitate.

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 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 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 28, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Compassion

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

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 16, 2016

Pagan and Pantheist Tendencies in Unitarianism

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

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 07, 2015

Polarity and Diversity

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

September 2015

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 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...