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June 2014

June 18, 2014

On the Nature of Green(s)

Recently I’ve been thinking again about Greens.

June 16, 2014

Being Batty: Polytheism, Experience, and Monistic Reduction

I assert that we make a profound mistake when we attempt to apologize all points...

June 02, 2014

Why I Dislike “-Ist”s but Love Raven Kaldera

When I teach, I do my best to downplay my personal beliefs, since my aim...

May 2014

May 19, 2014

Polytheistic Monism: A Guest Post by Christopher Scott Thompson (Part Four)

Thompson concludes with "Polyvalent Polytheism" and "Monad and Multiplicity." "I don’t claim any superiority for...

May 19, 2014

Polytheistic Monism: A Guest Post by Christopher Scott Thompson (Part Three)

Thompson continues with the question of whether polytheistic monism denies the gods and whether monism...

May 19, 2014

Polytheistic Monism: A Guest Post by Christopher Scott Thompson (Part Two)

Thompson explicates the relationship between henotheism and monism and looks at polytheistic monism in historical...

May 19, 2014

Polytheistic Monism: A Guest Post by Christopher Scott Thompson (Part One)

Some heathens and polytheists express hostility toward a perspective they define as monism, seeing it...

May 05, 2014

5 Top Posts for #Patheos5Yrs

Happy 5th Anniversary, Patheos! To celebrate, here are the top 5 most-read posts on Sermons...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

Consent Culture 101: Basic Practices and Teaching Games

What is consent culture, and how do we build it? Here are some basic practices...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

The Future of Paganism (Part Two): What Pagans Can Learn from Pioneer Mormons

For Pagans who are interested in growing community and wielding political power in the service...

March 29, 2014

Erotic Ethics and Pagan Consent Culture

In times of crisis, we often focus on what we DON'T want. But if we...

March 24, 2014

Cat Chapin-Bishop: Sacred Fire, or What Do I Hope to Build?

We do not need to define our experiences of the holy in the same way....

March 13, 2014

The Future of Contemporary Paganism: Holding Paradox (Part One)

The challenge of contemporary Paganism's future is to maintain an apparent paradox: to meet the...

March 12, 2014

Pagan prayer

A prayer can be nothing more than time taken to set an intention for the...

March 11, 2014

Your mountain is not my mountain and that’s just fine

Metaphors for religion are tricky things, especially when we try to stretch them and make...

March 10, 2014

Wiccanate Privilege and Polytheist Wiccans

We should dismantle Wiccanate privilege as soon as possible. Let’s have devotional polytheism, liturgical Paganism,...

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...

March 04, 2014

If you build it, they will come

I would like to see Pagan weddings become legally recognised in England and Wales. I...

March 03, 2014

Pagan Tea Times with John Halstead and Fritz Muntean

I sit down with John Halstead and Fritz Muntean to talk about Paganism, the internet,...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

All the Pagan Tea Times You Can Drink!

More Pagan Tea Times: John Beckett, David Dashifen Kees, Julian Betkowski, and Henry Buchy. The...

February 13, 2014

Tea Times with Aine Llewellyn and Rhyd Wildermuth

Fantastic Tea Times this week! Pagan history, the role of alternative religion in critiquing culture,...

February 02, 2014

Tea Time Update and Chair Position at Cherry Hill Seminary

Pagan Tea Time sweeps the Internet! Plus, Cherry Hill Seminary is looking for a new...

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...

December 2013

December 05, 2013

Ritual safety

I once attended a ritual where the temple (a basement room) had a polystyrene ceiling,...

November 2013

November 11, 2013

November Gratitude: Initiatory Communities

Out of all my experiences in Pagan groups, the one that has moved me the...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Pagan sacraments

A rite of passage is a ritual designed to make sacred a particular life event...

September 16, 2013

Occupy Spirituality: Reflections from a Once and Future Activist

_Occupy Spirituality_ makes me feel old. But I know that there will be a future...

July 2013

July 10, 2013

Seeking the Mystery: Giveaway Results and Review Round-up

Congratulations to the winner of the Seeking the Mystery paperback giveaway, and thanks so much...

July 05, 2013

Virtue Ethics (Seeking the Mystery, Chp. 5 Excerpt)

What are virtue ethics, and how do Pagans make ethical decisions? Learn more in this...

July 04, 2013

The Multiple Soul (Seeking the Mystery, Chp. 4 Excerpt)

What are some of the ways that Pagans think about the human soul (or in...