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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 13, 2018

Just the Start of School Again

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

September 03, 2018

Growth and reproduction of Wiccan Temples

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

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 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...

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...

May 2018

May 28, 2018

Notes on Ritual Theory for the Wiccan Priest/ess

“Ritual is a means of performing the way things ought to be in conscious tension...

May 23, 2018

Making A Temple To Last (and grow)

When I started along on the Wiccan path 36 years ago, there were few public...

May 21, 2018

Books, References, Sources for Lore

Although the ideas are simple it should be difficult to join a coven, difficult to...

May 16, 2018

Coming to Belong Here

May we go forward as the conscious voice, eyes and hands of the spirits of...

May 14, 2018

Creating One’s Own Body of Lore

I believe that we all have a general sense of what is undoubtedly Wiccan, what...

May 02, 2018

How to be a Wiccan Chaplain

Being a chaplain has been the principal form that my service as a public clergy...