Bishop In The Grove is Moving to BishopInTheGrove.com

October 12, 2012 By
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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...]

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Trans Is A Teacher For All Of Us

October 5, 2012 By
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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...]

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My Friend Got Stuck in the Winter

July 16, 2012 By
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We're searching for new beginnings, my friend and I. Yesterday, we took to driving along open roads, through fields turned yellow from the heat, with music playing loud enough to drown out all else, and we let the sound paint a picture of how much we'd changed. A year ago, my friend and I let go of summer. For me, the transition to autumn was swift and certain, and I gave myself no time to mourn the loss of light. For him, it was different. The slow draining of color from the maple … [Read more...]

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How Does Paganism Handle Turnover?

June 15, 2012 By
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A friend messaged me this morning to tell me she'd been fired. The news was unexpected, as it often is, and she was understandably torn up over it. My heart sunk, and I hurt for her. I wanted to reach out and embrace her, but I couldn't. There was only text between us, and the text was insufficient. Words are not the same as touch, the same as shoulders, the same as passing the tissue across the table. Words are sometimes not enough. About a year ago I lost my job. It was non-traditional … [Read more...]

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Casting Faith

June 3, 2011 By

The new head of the company told me on Thursday, in a calm and steady tone, that we have reached the furthest point we can in our working relationship. We need to accept that we've done everything we are capable of doing. In short - you're fired. Ah...THAT'S why he closed the door when I came in here, I thought. I told him that I understood, and I did. I haven't been a big money maker for the company. And while the business always considered itself to be more family-run than big-box, money is … [Read more...]

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