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May 2016

May 07, 2016

Metaphors for Religion

There are many different metaphors floating about for religions, and each one illuminates something different...

April 2016

April 06, 2016

Are Polytheists an Endangered Species?

Why polytheism is the default setting to which religion will always gravitate.

February 2016

February 11, 2016

Should Public Expressions of Religion Be Allowed?

Many secularists have argued that no public expressions of religion should be allowed - no...

August 2015

August 14, 2015

Faith and Belief

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

July 2015

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...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Silence equals complicity: making Pagan groups safe for everyone

We are supposed to be a community that values women, that believes women are the...

March 12, 2014

Pagan prayer

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

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 04, 2014

If you build it, they will come

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

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Pagan sacraments

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

June 2013

June 01, 2013

When knowledge was power

Ritual often seems like an activity designed only for interaction with the preternatural or the...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Those who are not against us are with us

I have always felt it would be better to define Paganism and Pagan traditions on...

February 2013

February 06, 2013

Realism and non-realism

There are several ways in which to construe the relationship of religious discourse to the...

January 2013

January 05, 2013

Maps and signposts on the journey

When I read writers from other religious traditions, I am constantly thinking, how do I...