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August 2015

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...

August 14, 2015

Faith and Belief

Many Pagans will tell you that they do not have faith and belief, because they...

August 10, 2015

Why I am still a polytheist Wiccan

I am a Wiccan and a polytheist, and I do not believe that the gods...

July 2015

July 24, 2015

Navigating the ethical minefield

As we go through life, most of us find our ethics are guided by the...

July 18, 2015

What colour is your witchcraft?

Why the question "are you a black witch or a white witch?" is such an...

July 08, 2015

Religion, spirituality, and the big ball of mud

Religions are organic, they grow with and in culture – and if people rip the...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Marriage equality: All you need is love… or is it?

I am immensely heartened by the legalisation of same-sex marriage across the United States of...

June 27, 2015

Pagans and Money

Whenever the subject of Pagans and money comes up, there arises the vexed question of...

June 19, 2015

Why Pagans don’t proselytise or evangelise

Pagans don't actively seek converts because we believe that the realisation that you are a...

June 15, 2015

Summer Solstice, and the gender-stereotyping is easy

A whistle-stop tour of Sun goddesses and Moon gods to celebrate the Summer Solstice

June 06, 2015

What is Pagan theology, and why do we need it?

Pagan theology is the discussion of pagan ethics and values and a discussion on the...

June 04, 2015

Reasons for addressing God as Mother

There has been quite a bit of hoo-hah recently as some Anglican women are campaigning...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

“No One Understands About Black”

Light without dark is the intolerable bright glare of torture and interrogation. We need our...

May 10, 2015

A bubble of complacency

One of the things that enables me to function more-or-less effectively is the notion that...

April 2015

April 16, 2015

Tradition and change

What is a tradition? What is the function of tradition? What are valid criteria for...

March 2015

March 12, 2015

Terry Pratchett: an accidental Pagan theologian

As far as I know, he is the only writer to speculate on how deities...

March 04, 2015

Transplanting from one culture to another – appropriation or exchange?

Many people do not understand what is and is not cultural appropriation because they assume...

February 2015

February 01, 2015

Stephen Fry, burrowing insects, and lions and tigers and bears

Christianity assumes that humans are the pinnacle of “creation” and that the world exists for...

January 2015

January 01, 2015

Gender and sexuality in Wicca

This is the video of my talk at Witchfest in Croydon, November 2014. The talk...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Diverse communities are less racist

The subjugation and oppression of Black and brown people is part of the dominionist, capitalist,...

December 05, 2014

One Pagan in the Season of Advent, the Season of #Ferguson #MikeBrown #EricGarner

Why have we been silent?

October 2014

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 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 19, 2014

Storytime: Spiritual Geography as Story

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