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December 2016

December 28, 2016

Review of Queer Paganism by Jo Green

This book would definitely be of interest to queer Pagans and open-minded heterosexuals, as it...

November 2016

November 24, 2016

A Pagan Requiem

I have been thinking for a while that we need more liturgical poetry in Pagan...

October 2016

October 04, 2016

Erotic Religion: The Body and Sex for Wiccans and Pagans

For Wiccans, witches, and many other Pagans, the sexual body is a site of religious...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

Pagan Ritual for Pulse, Orlando

After the Orlando shooting, a small group of LGBTQIA Pagans came together to create a...

June 15, 2016

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

Grace is related to renewal and a sense of being right with the world and...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

City of Refuge, by Starhawk (Book Review)

CITY OF REFUGE is refreshingly humble. Although it portrays earth-based spirituality, permaculture, sacred sexuality, nonhierarchical...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

On Poetry: A Conversation

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

February 2016

February 19, 2016

PAGAN CONSENT CULTURE Anthology Is Available!

How might a Druid understand consent? How about a Wiccan, a Thelemite, a Heathen, or...

January 2016

January 16, 2016

Pagan and Pantheist Tendencies in Unitarianism

Many people think that the Pagan or Earth Spirit element in Unitarianism started around 1980...

December 2015

December 01, 2015

Possession, Depossession, and Divine Relationships by Diana L. Paxson (Book Review)

Possession, Depossession, and Divine Relationships would make an excellent supporting text for an individual who...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

Wobbling, But Not Falling Off

Jason Mankey has a great post on "When Someone Leaves Paganism" and how to respond...

August 14, 2015

Faith and Belief

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

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Paganism for Beginners: Magical Names

There are many reasons why someone might want a Pagan name: to feel more in...

July 15, 2015

Paganism for Beginners: Festivals

Different Pagan traditions celebrate different festivals. Wiccans, Druids, and many eclectic Pagans celebrate the eightfold...

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 20, 2015

A Queer Pagan Reading List

Here are a bunch of books for the LGBTQ Pagan reader. I have either read...

June 17, 2015

Paganism for Beginners: Organisations

Pagan organisations are important because they represent Pagan organisations to the wider world, and connect...

June 03, 2015

Paganism for Beginners: Theology

Pagan theology is non-dogmatic, experiential, and descriptive. You are 'doing theology' whenever you explain how...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

Paganism for Beginners – Overview

Paganism is more of an attitude of mind than a fixed creed. It is always...

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...

November 2014

November 10, 2014

The Three Brigits of the Ulster Cycle and the Forgotten Origins of Neopagan Theology

This week, we are pleased to once again host an original research article by Christopher...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Ancestor Work: It’s Not Always About “Honoring”

Ancestor work is not always about remembering the positive. Sometimes, it can be about demanding...

October 13, 2014

Beloved dead

Why so few memories of my grandpa? Because my parents grew up in the Exclusive...

October 02, 2014

Ancestors

There are different types of ancestors - family members, ancestors of spirit, ancestors of place,...

September 2014

September 18, 2014

Gardnerians, Sacred Lands, Climate Marches, and Other News of Note

What's on my mind and on my reading list this month? Sacred Lands; British-Wicca.com; Sex,...

September 01, 2014

Anti-kink and transphobia have no place in Paganism

It may not be your cup of tea, but at least make an effort to...

August 2014

August 14, 2014

Indigenous peoples

When they are ripped out of their environment, lifeways, and culture, they do not flourish....

August 06, 2014

Call for Papers: Pagan Consent Culture – Building Communities of Empathy and Autonomy

Yvonne Aburrow and I are pleased to announce that we will be co-editing an anthology...

July 2014

July 25, 2014

Surviving Climate Change Requires Collective Action

Our desire that our groups or traditions be ideologically perfect will not serve us now....

July 24, 2014

A tangled web

Whenever I confront my personal ethical choices around sustainability and ecology, I realise that everything...