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September 2018

September 26, 2018

LGBTQ+ Affirming Wicca

The first place to start, of course, is by asking people to speak from within...

September 24, 2018

Liturgy and Ritual

One key activity, the central activity of public temples, is ritual performance. Training in liturgy and the...

September 19, 2018

Slice of Life

A slice of life today. This week has been very busy with Witchy things and...

September 17, 2018

Temple Publicity and Public Information Tips

Our temples are public, and our ordained clergy are public figures. Temples must all be...

September 13, 2018

Just the Start of School Again

The academic year has commenced at University of Alberta, where I am the Wiccan chaplain....

September 10, 2018

Bad Examples in Pagan organizing

We learn more from failures than successes. Over thirty-six years as a Pagan I have...

September 05, 2018

Parent Rite of Passage

When a child is born everyone celebrates the child (as they should) but they do...

September 03, 2018

Growth and reproduction of Wiccan Temples

Social, personal, and religious transformation cannot be accomplished by maintaining what we have already or...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Affirmation and Sacrifice

The Wiccan understanding of the divine masculine is not the Patriarchal all-powerful ruler of the...

August 27, 2018

Mystery and Personal Growth

The intellect makes sense of an experience or work of art, but it does not...

August 22, 2018

Earth Religion, Earth Crisis

The new world we need to build must have more music, joy, personal freedom, and...

August 20, 2018

Theological Notions in Temple Wicca

As part of the unfortunate anti-intellectualism and anti-authoritarian hippie leftover streak in the Pagan and Wiccan...

August 15, 2018

Blood and Social Justice

Friday afternoon as I was donating blood, (which I do every two months –...

August 14, 2018

More Temple Organizing Thoughts

My church is a federation of self-governing temples. Our bylaws and organizing principles make forming new...

August 08, 2018

Connecting With Your Matron and Patron Deities

My version of Wiccan theology is panentheistic and polytheistic. The goddesses and gods are present...

August 07, 2018

Start with Mission

A key point in building public Wiccan temples and activities, one that has been underplayed...

August 01, 2018

Dancing With the Children of the Corn

Last weekend I had the pleasure of being a guest of honour at Iowa’s...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

So you want to start a church?

For many years I have followed a vision of a Wiccan movement centred on legal church bodies, that...

July 25, 2018

Hope in the time of ‘breaking of nations’

In this time of the 'breaking of nations' it is easy to get swept into...

July 24, 2018

Ritual Reading List

The best ritual books and approaches that I have found to ritual and ritual theory...

July 18, 2018

Temple Clergy Training Outline

There is a difference between being a Priestess or Priest and being a clergy...

July 16, 2018

Ritual for Others and Community, Ritual Tools

During the course of working through this series of posts, and through the various rituals...

July 11, 2018

On the Egregore, Group Minds, and the Conscious Creation of Deities.

Groups that consciously choose to create on the spiritual level together and that exercise their creative...

July 10, 2018

Ritual Problem-solving, Art, Magic, Creating Community

Ritual takes memory out of our heads and our individual subjectivity and creates a collective...

July 04, 2018

Changing Complementarity Theology in Wicca

Complementarian theology which argues that women and men have “separate but equal” roles in society...

July 02, 2018

Ritual As Power

Power relationships in ritual are explicit during their performance - some have leading roles and...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Festival Season Reconciliation

I usually only head out to my temple’s members-only religious retreat in July and...

June 25, 2018

Ritual of Life-Passages

Rituals of life stages, often called rites of transition or rites of passage are the...

June 20, 2018

“What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light”

How can we build lasting religious community, except by beginning with a solid foundation? We...

June 19, 2018

Ritual and Transformation

In ritual we take an ordinary time and place, and place it outside of time...