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Courage
Fear is natural and necessary – it helps keep us alive. But our current socio-political...
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Tower Time Is Still Very Much With Us
I stopped talking about Tower Time because too many people were expecting an apocalypse or...
June 26, 2024
A Pagan Reviews An Evangelical Book About Pagans
The Return of Paganism fails to make a rational case for the superiority of the...
June 23, 2024
Why I Believe But Don’t Care If You Do Or Not
When people ask why I believe in the Gods, I’m happy to tell them. But...
June 16, 2024
The Summer Solstice: Celebrating Before the Labors Begin
We stand at the Summer Solstice. The planting is done and the harvesting is yet...
June 09, 2024
Paganism Is Anything But Boring
A Catholic writer called Paganism “mostly very boring.” That may be the laziest criticism of...
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May 28, 2024
Dear Exvangelicals: I’m Rooting For You
Dear Exvangelicals: I got out of Evangelical fundamentalism and onto a religious path that is...
May 22, 2024
Three Classic Vampire Movies
One of my favorite simple pleasures is watching old horror movies. I recently watched three...
May 19, 2024
What It Means To Be Thankful “It Could Have Been Worse”
Many people intuitively give thanks when they experience something bad that could have been worse....
May 12, 2024
Spiritual Practice When You Don’t Feel Like Practicing
If we stop practicing whenever we don’t feel like it, we’ll never get anywhere. But...
May 01, 2024
Walpurgisnacht in the Infirmary
I went outside on Walpurgisnacht to make offerings and to hope that there might be...
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April 28, 2024
A Pagan Meditates in a Baroque Church
I took shelter from the snow inside a Swiss church. It made for in interesting...
April 07, 2024
Richard Dawkins Calls Himself a Cultural Christian
New Atheist Richard Dawkins’ work on evolution is excellent. But his writings on religion are...
April 03, 2024
The Solar Eclipse: Magic and Danger or Wonder and Awe?
Traditionally, eclipses are bad omens, especially for kings and others in high places. An eclipse...
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March 31, 2024
The Call of Cernunnos
The natural world is in turmoil and so of course a God of Nature is...
March 27, 2024
Avoiding Discouragement in Magic and Devotion
Impatience leads to failure, failure leads to discouragement, and discouragement leads to abandoning spiritual practices...
March 24, 2024
Where Do Rights Come From? A Modern Pagan View
Conservatives like to claim that “our rights come from God, not from government!” But that’s...
March 20, 2024
We’re Pagans – We Do Ritual
Historian Francis Young says that while ritual is clearly important to us as humans, we...
March 17, 2024
Survive and Advance
Some problems can’t be fixed. Sometimes no amount of effort, no amount of money, no...
March 10, 2024
How to Make a Monster
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is as relevant today as it was when she first...
March 06, 2024
I’m Already Tired of AI Art
There are serious ethical issues with the way AI plagiarizes art and with how some...
March 03, 2024
Learning to Recognize Your Magical Successes
Too many people – many of whom call themselves witches – are unable to recognize...
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February 25, 2024
The Alabama IVF Ruling: One More Step Toward Theocracy
First they came for abortion. Then they came for IVF. They’ll keep coming for more...
February 21, 2024
5 Ways to Deepen Your Paganism
The call to deeper magic and spirituality often comes subtly. At first you’re barely aware...
February 18, 2024
The Devil and Mary MacLane
In 1901, 19 year old Mary MacLane wrote about her love for her “anemone lady”...
February 11, 2024
The New Asatru Temple and the Challenges to Authenticity
The Christians who argue “Pagan religions aren’t authentic because they have no continuity with the...
February 04, 2024
5 Steps to Re-enchant the World
Re-enchantment is a way of seeing the world and relating to the world that happens...
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January 28, 2024
Meaning Doesn’t Require a God – It Requires a Choice
Occasionally I hear someone say “if there is no God then life has no meaning.”...
January 21, 2024
Vampires, Crosses, and the Importance of Good Metaphysics
A meme going around talks about vampires being repelled by crosses and how that works....
January 14, 2024
6 Kinds Of People Who Revert Out Of Paganism And Witchcraft
Recently there’ve been several people who, after making a name for themselves as witches or...
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