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October 2023

October 01, 2023
I think I’m supposed to write something deep and spiritual about the need for seasons...

September 2023

September 27, 2023
An atheist asked why religious people “feel the need to advertise their belief?” with jewelry...
September 20, 2023
Tarot decks can be addictive. Here are five relatively new Tarot decks I find interesting....
September 17, 2023
What do you do when your head tells you there is only the natural world...
September 13, 2023
I encourage you to avoid AI-created spiritual education. It’s not hard to spot, but sometimes...
September 06, 2023
I’m one of the most order-obsessed people I know, but I’m yearning for wildness. Because...

August 2023

August 31, 2023
A Baptist pastor and political scientist says that liberals have won the culture war. I...
August 25, 2023
Donald Trump was entitled to challenge the election results through legal means. He was not...
August 20, 2023
Patheos has a new feature on The 100 Most Holy Places on Earth. Rather than...
August 15, 2023
Announcing a new on-line class from Under the Ancient Oaks: “Modern Pagan Metaphysics.” Registration is...
August 13, 2023
The Patheos Questions & Answers series presents different traditions’ thoughts on the Genesis creation story....
August 10, 2023
Children often believe strange things – I was no exception to this rule. There some...
August 02, 2023
I’m struggling a bit at the moment. This shows up time and time again in...

July 2023

July 30, 2023
Kristoffer Hughes’ The Book of Druidry is advice and guidance that will be invaluable to...
July 27, 2023
A handful of people are hearing from a Storm Goddess whose name we can’t determine...
July 23, 2023
Lughnasadh celebrates Tailtiu, who cleared the land of Ireland for planting and then died from...
July 18, 2023
I didn’t set out to have exactly a coven’s worth of observations from this year’s...
July 16, 2023
Conservatives who complain that the U.S. is becoming Pagan show their ignorance about Paganism. What...
July 09, 2023
Throughout history, the witch has been the outsider, the other. When we oppose the mainstream...
July 02, 2023
It seems impossible that we’re halfway through 2023. Still, here we are at the first...

June 2023

June 28, 2023
Two Evangelical writers claim that Paganism is somehow inauthentic because it doesn’t exactly match the...
June 25, 2023
Courtney Weber says her new book is “an exploration of what it means to be...
June 21, 2023
I always feel a little hypocritical celebrating the Summer Solstice. But Pagans celebrate the Wheel...
June 18, 2023
An unpleasant encounter with the Morrigan left someone asking if it was really the Great...
June 15, 2023
The Book of Cernunnos, the new devotional anthology dedicated to the Lord of the Animals...
June 14, 2023
Seven questions and answers about the Gods and our experiences of Them, Pagan books, spiritual...
June 11, 2023
We will never get it perfectly right – we are imperfect humans. But when we’re...
June 07, 2023
A young person asked how to become polytheist clergy. This way isn’t the only way...
June 04, 2023
As Pagans, we do our best to form and maintain relationships with the spirits of...

May 2023

May 31, 2023
Magic often presents ethical conundrums, but at the end of the day, there’s no such...
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