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July 2018

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 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 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...

June 13, 2018

Mission and Pride

Which of the hurts and pains in the world are you called by the divine...

June 06, 2018

Getting Organized

For activities in the Pagan communities to happen, someone must organize them. Someone must pick...

June 04, 2018

Ritual is a Way of Making Meaning

"It is not the experience of the sacred that makes us spiritual, but rather it...