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September 2016

September 11, 2016
What do an OBOD camp and the Buddhist principle of impermanence have to do with...
September 08, 2016
In a local, face-to-face group, you quickly learn what’s worth fighting over and what isn’t....
September 06, 2016
As anyone who has ever been in any kind of a romantic partnership will attest,...
September 04, 2016
If you’re looking for the foundations of most polytheist religions, you don’t have to dig...
September 01, 2016
We have everything we need to restore polytheism and our many polytheist religions to a...

August 2016

August 30, 2016
Almost 80 CUUPS members and friends from around the country traveled to Salem, Massachusetts for...
August 28, 2016
This is my keynote presentation from the CUUPS Convocation, condensed and reformatted for a blog...
August 25, 2016
We have been unable to separate debate on polytheist concepts from our feelings about individual...
August 23, 2016
The AFA’s recent announcement drops all pretense, but their record has long shown they’re a...
August 21, 2016
Yesterday, the Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship held a Reconsecration ceremony following eight months of repairs...
August 18, 2016
There’s a place for sequential, ordered learning and advancement. But life rarely works that way...
August 16, 2016
On the same day the Patheos editors put my post “Are We Bringing Sin Into...
August 14, 2016
My Paganism, my Druidry, and even my polytheism have roots in the wild. There is...
August 11, 2016
Let’s be as pious and as pure as we can be. But at the end...
August 08, 2016
I had a great time at the 2016 Many Gods West conference, but there were...
August 07, 2016
My presentation from Friday’s “Building Polytheist Community” panel discussion at the Many Gods West conference...
August 04, 2016
Gordon White of Rune Soup has a new book out titled Pieces of Eight: Chaos...
August 02, 2016
Animism provides a framework for an inspirited and enchanted world, a world where everything you...
August 01, 2016
One of the advantages of getting old is knowing what’s coming next because you’re seeing...

July 2016

July 28, 2016
There is a core dilemma in contemporary liberal religion, a broad category that includes much...
July 26, 2016
Without a cultural context and foundation, a religious or spiritual practice is at best weakened...
July 24, 2016
I try to help us learn skills and practices that will help us survive and...
July 21, 2016
The direct experience of the Gods can be an amazing, fulfilling, path-confirming experience. It can...
July 19, 2016
I’m very happy that after a four year break, this year we’re returning to Lughnasadh...
July 17, 2016
There are two obligations of good religion: to heal the world and to heal ourselves....
July 14, 2016
There’s a lot that’s wrong with Texas and if you’d rather live somewhere else I...
July 12, 2016
Does the polytheist movement need a different name? Perhaps, but it will have to arise...
July 10, 2016
How can we speak confidently and even passionately about religious matters, where certainty is impossible?...
July 07, 2016
I’m enjoying reading about and listening to witches, magicians, and occultists. I’m learning some things,...
July 05, 2016
Good religion has both an internal focus and an external focus; an Otherworldly focus and...
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