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February 2016

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 11, 2016

Should Public Expressions of Religion Be Allowed?

Many secularists have argued that no public expressions of religion should be allowed - no...

February 09, 2016

But What About The Tradition?

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

February 07, 2016

The Gay Roots of the Pagan Revival

It is a little known fact that many of the early pioneers of the Pagan...

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 22, 2016

The Celts at the British Museum

Last weekend, I saw the Gundestrup Cauldron. It was an amazing, powerful, beautiful experience. Seeing...

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...

January 08, 2016

Pagan Contemplative Prayer

Contemplative prayer is a practice that is fairly simple to understand, but which may take...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Five Memorable Blogposts of 2015

I read loads of really awesome blogposts and articles in 2015. Bloggers on Patheos Pagan,...

December 05, 2015

The Gift of Naughtiness

The elves all cheered wildly. At last they would see off those horrible impostors, the...

October 2015

October 09, 2015

Cultural Appropriation and the Blues

The Blues originate from a particular cultural and social history unique to Black people. Yes,...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Cultural appropriation is about power

What many commentators miss is the power differential in cultural appropriation. People forget that we...

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 22, 2015

Shades of Racism

Could it be time to introduce some qualifying adjectives to indicate what level of racism...

September 08, 2015

Why Dowsing for Divinity?

We decided that the title Sermons from the Mound no longer quite fitted the type...