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August 2016

August 26, 2016

Paganism and the Body Class Sneak Peek

This Fall I'm offering Paganism and the Body, a 14-week graduate-level online class in body...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Poem on a Birthday

All the myths and stories tell us the gift exists to be transformed and passed...

May 2016

May 02, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: The Need to Slow

One cannot seek endarkenment with the clock ticking or the timer going off.

April 2016

April 30, 2016

On Poetry: A Conversation

Sarah Sadie and I decided to write a different kind of blogpost - a conversation....

April 27, 2016

How to Become a Naturalist

Pagans often say that we want to get in touch with Nature. But there are...

April 04, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: Downward to Darkness

There comes a time when we feel the tug in our gut, the impulse to...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Compassion

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

January 26, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Magical Tools

Tools are levers for affecting the world. You can't tighten a screw without a screwdriver....

January 14, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Archery

When I am doing archery, I am totally in the moment, totally focussed on hitting...

January 12, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: The Hearth

The hearth is traditionally the place where you honour your ancestors and household gods and...

January 10, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: The Sit Spot

A really great way of experiencing yourself as part of nature is to incorporate the...

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.

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...

May 2015

May 17, 2015

Spirituality – let the buyer beware

Every time I have an encounter with someone who has an interest in spirituality, and...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

Woman with the Pen: Five Moments On My Way Back to Patheos

There are many radical and beloved and ferocious warriors whose voices I treasure above my...

July 2014

July 18, 2014

Embodiment and Woundedness: Owning Up to Being an Animal

When I stepped into the waters of Lake Superior, I recognized the sensation exactly: I’ve...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

“That Which You Hate and Try to Destroy is Sacred”

I want every woman to insist on herself—and to be free and able to do...

March 2014

March 05, 2014

Drugs: it’s all about the context

Drugs and other mind-altering substances have been used in a sacred context for millennia. It...

February 2014

February 14, 2014

Lupercalia

Whatever the origins and timing of Valentine's Day, 14 February was originally the date of...

January 2014

January 19, 2014

Building Pagan Intellectual Culture Face to Face

It is vitally important, if we want to build Pagan intellectual culture, that we know...

July 2013

July 19, 2013

Individuation in Pagan traditions

The aims of Pagan traditions with regard to the self, soul, spirit, consciousness and its...

May 2013

May 02, 2013

The argument from desire

The "argument from desire" is that we all have a "God-shaped hole" in consciousness, which...

April 2013

April 08, 2013

Religion and humour

Part of the function of humour is to subvert the accepted order of things. Whenever...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

Human Flesh: Beginning a Pagan Theology

Most theologies begin with considering the nature of divinity, with the nature of humanity as...