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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 20, 2016

Hail Eris!

The way things have been going lately, anyone would think that Eris had lobbed an...

April 18, 2016

Polytheism and Apple Pie

John Beckett has a witty and amusing post up about apple pie, vanilla pudding, and...

April 06, 2016

Are Polytheists an Endangered Species?

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

September 2014

September 12, 2014

Dancing and Dowsing: Moving Into Polytheism

I went to a dance class for the first time in years a few days...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

A Dance of Impermanence: Introducing Myself in Two Chapters (Otherwise Titled, Why Am I Here and Who Am I, Anyway?)

New contributor, Sarah Sadie! "I went into the class defining myself as a loose-ish, pagan-ish...

March 2014

March 10, 2014

Wiccanate Privilege and Polytheist Wiccans

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

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Pagan sacraments

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

July 2013

July 19, 2013

Individuation in Pagan traditions

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

April 2013

April 29, 2013

The varieties of religious experience

Having distinctive religious traditions matters because each tradition expresses a distinctive identity, philosophy, tradition, set...

April 20, 2013

Tradition

Tradition is something that grows and evolves. It is not set in stone, but is...

April 18, 2013

Fundamentalism

What is fundamentalism? Is it all bad? Can the term 'fundamentalist' be applied to Pagans?

April 14, 2013

Values, beliefs, practices

What makes you a Pagan? Is it what you believe, what you do, or something...

April 10, 2013

Five questions about Paganism

(1) How is paganism different? (2) What is the significance of its difference? (3) What...

April 05, 2013

Why I Am a Pagan

I am Pagan because no other way makes sense. The living world speaks to me...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

Why I am a Wiccan

Wicca is my tribe, my sangha, my dharma. Even when other Wiccans drive me crazy,...