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2016-07-29T11:57:06-04:00

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Poem on a Birthday

Last updated on: July 29, 2016 at 11:57 am By Sarah Sadie

All the myths and stories tell us the gift exists to be transformed and passed on, or it loses its power. Read more

Creative Endarkenment

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2016-07-25T13:43:01-04:00

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Why Black Lives Matter (Too) – A Book Review #BlackLivesMatter

Last updated on: July 25, 2016 at 1:43 pm By Christine Kraemer

Black Lives Matter (Too) critiques racial injustice in the United States in a huge variety of contexts, and it does so with equal servings of research and personal narrative. It is a a powerful resource for anti-racism educators. Read more

UK Satanic Abuse Scare: 25 Years On

Last updated on: July 7, 2016 at 8:04 am By Guest Contributor

As a pagan who has also worked in the press for the past 30-odd years, it isn’t the first time I’ve come across fellow witches not believing I can be both. Journalists have been among the biggest enemies of modern pagan witches since the mid 20th century – and during the late 1980s to early 1990s we fanned the flames of the Satanic Panic with lurid stories such as those in the clippings at the top of this post. Read more

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A Tale of Two Britains

Last updated on: June 30, 2016 at 7:04 am By Yvonne Aburrow

It ought to be obvious to anyone that Tory-imposed austerity is responsible for the economic misery that has cut services and reduced jobs and rendered many areas full of despair. Certainly, the brutal realities of capitalists accumulating wealth at everybody else's expense also plays into this, causing division between the people they prey upon. Instead, people blame immigration and the EU. So we have been led to the brink by a group of irresponsible and out-of-touch upper class twits, as The New Yorker immediately grasped. And although the 17 million who voted to leave the EU didn't all vote that way on the basis of anti-immigration, the racists who are currently committing vile acts of hate up and down the land have felt empowered to do so because they are assuming that the rest of the Leave voters agreed with them. Read more

2016-06-22T08:32:52-04:00

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Pagan Ritual for Pulse, Orlando

Last updated on: June 22, 2016 at 8:32 am By Yvonne Aburrow

After the Orlando shooting, a small group of LGBTQIA Pagans came together to create a ritual for the dead of Orlando. The group is called Wands Up for Orlando. One of the founders, Salvatore Caci, wrote: Why “wands up”? In the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, after the death of Dumbledore, all students of Hogwarts take their wands and raise them into the air to light up the sky and sweep away Voldemort’s evil curse. Similarly, we want... Read more

2016-06-19T06:22:42-04:00

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On Being European and Scottish

Last updated on: June 19, 2016 at 6:22 am By Guest Contributor

The North Sea has always connected people far more than it divided them, and the marks of these connections to the rest of Europe are everywhere in Scotland’s history, language, culture, place names, educational system, architecture and law. I know that a few miles walk in one direction would bring me to the remains of the old Dane’s Dyke. A few miles the other way and I’d be where the first translation into any of the English family of languages of one of the foundational works of European literature, Gavin Douglas's 16th Century Scots translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, was written. Read more

2016-06-18T13:42:49-04:00

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Externalising/Internalising: Talking About The Pain

Last updated on: June 18, 2016 at 1:42 pm By Guest Contributor

I am very concerned that now straight society may take even less responsibility for the way heterosexism and homophobia led to this horror. As if it were only a psychological problem of people who cannot accept their own sexuality. So it can all be made 'other' by white cisgendered heterosexual society, the society Mateen grew up in. So much ‘other’ : ‘Well he was gay and he was Muslim and they are so anti gay aren't they? He must have had mental health problems. Nothing to do with us. Nothing to see here, let's move on'. Read more

2016-06-16T09:54:32-04:00

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After Orlando: “Stay Proud, Stay Visible”

Last updated on: June 16, 2016 at 9:54 am By Yvonne Aburrow

All around the world, vigils have have taken place in memory of the dead of Orlando. I attended the Oxford (UK) vigil for Orlando last night with two friends. It was beautiful. There were poetry readings, candles, flowers, speeches, and a silence. LGBTQIA people and our allies came together in a shared moment of grieving. In the face of such an appalling tragedy, it is all too easy to assume the world is full of hate. Yet every day, millions of small acts of kindness and love go unnoticed and unreported. Read more

2016-06-14T05:40:23-04:00

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Grace is the Time, is the Place, is the Motion

Last updated on: June 14, 2016 at 5:40 am By Yvonne Aburrow

Grace is related to renewal and a sense of being right with the world and the divine. The Three Graces or Charites were definitely pagan. A feeling of grace can be created by harmonious sounds and soothing light. Splendor, Good Cheer, and Mirth also seem apt descriptors. And the more modern meaning of elegance and harmony also fits in with these ancient concepts of grace. So I think we can reclaim the word grace to mean the beauty and harmony and radiance of Nature and the feelings of awe and gratitude, wonder and joy and healing evoked by that beauty. Read more

2016-06-13T16:40:27-04:00

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Litany for Orlando

Last updated on: June 13, 2016 at 4:40 pm By Yvonne Aburrow

Once again, I call for stronger and deeper love in the face of hate. Love must win. Read more

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