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Bishop In The Grove is Moving to BishopInTheGrove.com
October 12, 2012 By
New URL: BishopInTheGrove.com Subscribe to the RSS Subscribe via Email As my last post indicated, October has been a month of transition. With transition comes the unexpected. Over the past few weeks, much has changed unexpectedly in my own, personal universe. Some of these changes feel more weighted than others, but all of them point to the need to reevaluate what has been, and how I would for things to be as I move forward with my writing. The past year of blogging at Patheos has … [Read more...]
Trans Is A Teacher For All Of Us
October 5, 2012 By
It snowed last night. First of the season. There wasn't quite enough to break the branches like last year, but it was enough to remind us that the season of fall, as much as I'd prefer it last forever, is simply a transition. What we're witnessing in the seasonal display of colors is the letting go of something we've grown accustomed to. Transitions, periods when something is neither one thing nor the other, boggle the mind. It would be so much simpler if the world was binary, which I think … [Read more...]
What Do Pagans Want To Read In Their Blogs, Magazines And Books?
October 3, 2012 By
Writing is a bitch sometimes. I've given myself a number of writing projects, some religious in nature and some more scholastic. Some are a blending of the both. I've also begun to explore what it would be like to take my writing to print. All of these things are squeezed into my calendar and shuffled onto my desk throughout the week, and on some days -- like the last four -- it feels as thought the weight of these papers, ideas, self-directed critiques, and a few outside-constructive … [Read more...]
THE DRUIDS ARE COMING! Plant a tree.
September 27, 2012 By
Open yourself to the movement of creativity in your life, and there is no telling what will happen. I have a tradition of rearranging plastic, magnetic letters on the back of my local coffee shop's espresso machine to make ridiculous phrases. While waiting for my chai (much lower in caffeine than the triple espresso I used to drink), I make my silliness all over the silver, Italian shininess. A few examples of my literary genius: And, this heartfelt confession: This … [Read more...]
How Do We Respond to Conflict in Pagan Communities?
September 25, 2012 By
Paganism, on the surface, seems like a retreat from the challenges posed by organized religion. Our great, mostly-pentacle-shaped umbrella, under which all shades, shapes and sizes of earth loving, god or goddess invoking creatures rest, looks to the untrained eye like a respite from bureaucracy, miscommunication, and any of the other ills of "The Church." It just isn't so. When people gather, organize and commit to being in relationship with one another, conflicts arise. This is an … [Read more...]
How Do You Know It’s The Gods You’re Listening To?
September 20, 2012 By
Since I began working through the Dedicant Path this second time, I've run across a number of people who are also starting their studies with ADF. They're showing up in the comment section on Bishop In The Grove, on Facebook, and I'm wondering if there's some deeper meaning behind it. A friend of mine suggested that we should distrust the Volkswagen Bug syndrome. You know -- the one where you buy a VW bug, and then all you see around you are VW bugs. They start popping up everywhere -- in … [Read more...]
How Much Stuff Does One Pagan Need?
September 18, 2012 By
Should I let go of my stuff? Should I have a metaphysical yard sale, in which I sell my Cunningham books, my surplus of pewter jewelry, and my... ...ahem... ...crystals? Should I rid my closet of the long, green, hooded robe I've worn twice, my Guatemalan patchwork jacket I scored for $7 bucks, or my black ceremonial duds? How about my malas, my God and Goddess candle holders (don't you just love P. Borda?), or my copper OM chalice? When I look at the shelf above my desk, I … [Read more...]
Want To Make The Gods Laugh?
September 14, 2012 By
Make a plan. I dare you. Ok, ready? You're me: You put on your denim kilt, blue button up shirt, and patchwork hat. Your beard is tidy and trim, and your socks pulled up. You load up the car with your husband, a tupperware container of crayons, and a bag of chocolates. Drive. After a half hour, you're at a little Unitarian Universalist church near the foothills. You unload, begin to arrange chairs in a big, circular meeting room, and you wait. When you can't wait any … [Read more...]
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