MLK Day and Your Average Wiccan Priestess

January 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment
public prayer

  It's been a difficult couple of weeks in our little corner of the interfaith world. All of us who are mindful of the dear old Earth are conscious of the horror of West Virginia--a horror of carelessness compounded by the invisible world of classism that kept the eye of the nation on the governor of New Jersey when it should have been on the people and critters and waterways and corruption in West Virginia. Yes, we've sent water and held candlelight vigils and called the governor and … [Read more...]

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We Don’t Have a Golden Rule…and yet…

November 28, 2013 By 3 Comments

Years ago, when I was in a Cooperation Circle of the United Religions Initiative, there was an interfaith-y poster of how religions across the spectrum of spirituality had their own version of The Golden Rule--Do Unto Others As You Would Have Done Unto You. There were very similar mottos from lots of different creeds but my spiritual tradition doesn't have a thing like that, not really. We harken back to the ancient laws of hospitality and that could sort of pass. But not really. We spend … [Read more...]

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Who’s TRULY Being Compassionate?

July 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Wild Garden: Pagans in the Growing Interfaith Landscape

Who’s TRULY being compassionate? As a pagan, I am sometimes surprised when I hear a generic Christian admonish an evangelical faith group for their 'so-called' acts of compassion. It makes me ask myself: to what extent can we as a human race call ourselves compassionate? The truest forms of compassion can be defined through too many variables, words, interpretations, and means of thought processes. What compassion is to one person, another person will undoubtedly have a completely … [Read more...]

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Journeys: A Monthly Interfaith Breakfast

July 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Wild Garden: Pagans in the Growing Interfaith Landscape

“Interfaith Winston-Salem is an all-volunteer educational group that brings together members of many faith traditions – religious and non-religious – to gain a greater understanding of and respect for each other’s traditions.” For a local community group, IF-WS has had a pretty good response in attendance of the various educational activities, least of all, our monthly gathering of an Interfaith Breakfast.  The first Sunday of each month, about 30 or so of us gathers at 8am to … [Read more...]

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Patriotism

July 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Parthenon

Pretty soon, we'll be coming up upon Panathenaia. It falls sort of nearish the 4th of July and I try to make it up to Nashville at least once a year around this time to visit the Parthenon. Last year, the eldest and I had a very nice picnic in Centennial Park after praying and knitting inside. This year, I will pray to her for guidance for my federal, state, and local governments in the hopes that she can lead them to wise decisions. This prayer to her isn't limited to once a year, of course. … [Read more...]

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MountainTop I

June 25, 2013 By 2 Comments
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Back in February I received an invitation to an event called “MountainTop: Advancing a multifaith movement for justice” convening in Nashville, Tennessee, over three days in June.  The invitation said this was a “summit of established and emerging leaders inspired by their faith, heritage or core values. … [to] work together to establish the multifaith movement as a platform that informs, invigorates and inspires other inclusive social change initiatives and promotes collaboration.”  … [Read more...]

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