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2016-05-17T09:09:10-04:00

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If You Have A Racist Friend

Last updated on: May 17, 2016 at 9:09 am By Yvonne Aburrow

So you have a racist, sexist, homophobic, white supremacist friend. Your racist friend is perfectly affable to you, buys you beers, likes to chat about the football and whatever. But you are white and male and straight, so of course he is nice to you. And he doesn't challenge your world-view, or your assumptions about how the world works, because both you and he are white, straight, and male. Read more

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Why We Need Black History Month

Last updated on: January 25, 2016 at 4:08 pm By Yvonne Aburrow

Every so often, some ill-informed person opines that we don't need Black History Month, or International Women's Day, or LGBT History Month, or the BET Awards. Sure, we wouldn't need any of them if white privilege, male privilege, and straight privilege didn't exist. But they do exist. Read more

Women's History Month

2016-03-23T13:12:36-04:00

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Embodied Spirituality: Compassion

Last updated on: March 23, 2016 at 1:12 pm By Yvonne Aburrow

Spirituality - embodied or otherwise - is merely narcissism and self-indulgence when it doesn't involve compassion - literally, feeling with others. I regard embodied spirituality as a sense of mystical connection with the universe and all beings within it. In feeling this sense of connection, we experience compassion for the sufferings of other beings, and empathy with their joys. Read more

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2016-03-23T13:12:26-04:00

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Embodied Spirituality: Magical Tools

Last updated on: March 23, 2016 at 1:12 pm By Yvonne Aburrow

Tools are levers for affecting the world. You can't tighten a screw without a screwdriver. You need a wooden spoon to stir a pan of soup or stew, otherwise you would burn your fingers. You can cast a magical circle without a sword or a wand - but it feels like a better and more magical circle when it has been cast with the appropriate tool. The subtle energies involved in magic are affected by physical tools in much the same way as denser matter is affected by tools. Read more

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2016-01-23T13:21:19-05:00

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Spirits of the Land

Last updated on: January 23, 2016 at 1:21 pm By Yvonne Aburrow

I have always liked the description of Paganism as nature religion (however inaccurate and unhelpful that may be). The idea of being connected to Nature was one of the things that drew me towards Paganism. I also really liked the old gods, but woods, mountains, the sea, chalk hills, ancient trackways, burial mounds, stone circles, and liminal places have always attracted me. I think I first tried talking to trees when I was about 12 years old. I get withdrawal symptoms if I don't get out into the countryside regularly. So I also feel the urge to converse with the spirits of the land. Read more

2016-01-22T11:33:17-05:00

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The Celts at the British Museum

Last updated on: January 22, 2016 at 11:33 am By Yvonne Aburrow

Last weekend, I saw the Gundestrup Cauldron. It was an amazing, powerful, beautiful experience. Seeing something that I've waited so long to see, something so old, and so powerful, of such exquisite craftsmanship. It was awesome. Cernunnos sitting there with his antlers and his snake, all beautiful and serene. And the embossed panels, and the tiny details like the embossed leaves, and the silver of at the bottom of the cauldron. Amazing. So sacred. And containing such a wide range of influences from different cultures. Read more

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How To Be An Elder

Last updated on: January 17, 2016 at 4:40 am By Yvonne Aburrow

The first rule of being an elder is not to talk about being an elder. Don't even think about being an elder. And certainly don't proclaim from the rooftops that you are one. If you think you are one, you probably aren't. Read more

2016-01-17T16:46:46-05:00

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Feet of Clay

Last updated on: January 17, 2016 at 4:46 pm By Yvonne Aburrow

It seems to be a tendency in much of contemporary culture, including the Pagan movement, to put people on pedestals and hero-worship them, and when we discover that they are flawed human beings like the rest of us, to knock them off their pedestal and dismiss every good thing they ever did. Read more

2016-01-12T06:54:17-05:00

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Pagan and Pantheist Tendencies in Unitarianism

Last updated on: January 12, 2016 at 6:54 am By Yvonne Aburrow

Many people think that the Pagan or Earth Spirit element in Unitarianism started around 1980 with the first Unitarian Universalist Pagan ritual, or with the foundation of CUUPs (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) in America in 1986, or the Unitarian Earth Spirit Network in the UK, founded in 1990. In fact, it has its roots in some much earlier developments. Read more

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Embodied Spirituality: Archery

Last updated on: March 23, 2016 at 1:13 pm By Yvonne Aburrow

When I am doing archery, I am totally in the moment, totally focussed on hitting the target, and how my body fits with the bow (though probably insufficiently focussed on the latter). I am not thinking of anything else. For me, archery is embodied spirituality in action. Read more

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