The call to deeper magic and spirituality often comes subtly. At first you’re barely aware of it, but the desire grows over time. These are five practices that have worked for me, and I’m confident they’ll work for you too. Read more
The call to deeper magic and spirituality often comes subtly. At first you’re barely aware of it, but the desire grows over time. These are five practices that have worked for me, and I’m confident they’ll work for you too. Read more
In 1901, 19 year old Mary MacLane wrote about her love for her “anemone lady” and her frustration with living in a small Western town where opportunities were few and opportunities for women were fewer. She wrote “oh, kind Devil, deliver me from it!” Read more
The Christians who argue “Pagan religions aren’t authentic because they have no continuity with the ancients” usually skip the other part: “you have no continuity because we destroyed it.” And also, they’re wrong. Read more
Re-enchantment is a way of seeing the world and relating to the world that happens on an individual level. Our world is already enchanted. We just have to learn how to see that enchantment and relate to it. Read more
Occasionally I hear someone say “if there is no God then life has no meaning.” I’m a theist, but I don’t agree. Finding meaning in life doesn’t require Gods, much less any one particular God. It just requires a choice. Read more
A meme going around talks about vampires being repelled by crosses and how that works. As someone who’s a vampire fan and who actively works to decenter Christianity in religious discussions, I find this meme fascinating, and worth diving into more deeply. Read more
Recently there’ve been several people who, after making a name for themselves as witches or other Pagan-adjacent people, suddenly reverted to Christianity. Some are cynical about these reversions, but people often change religions simply because their beliefs change. Here are six kinds of people who revert out of Paganism and witchcraft. Read more
Paganism is impossible to precisely define, but that doesn’t mean it’s anything anybody says it is. The irreligious and the none-of-the-aboves are not Pagan. Call them what they are and leave “Pagan” for those who actually practice Pagan religions. Read more
I’m sick of all the “tough love” on social media. They say “I’m just being honest” but they aren’t – they’re trying to make themselves feel superior and being cruel in the process. If you’ve been hearing tough love and it’s just making things worse, read on. Read more
In December 1946, author and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis published an essay in Strand Magazine titled A Christmas Sermon for Pagans in which he argued for the moral and ethical superiority of Christianity. He distinguished between “Pagans” (“the backward people in the remote districts who had not yet been converted” and to whom Lewis showed a modicum of respect, albeit in a patronizing way) and the “post-Christian men” of his era to whom his sermon was directed. On Christmas Day... Read more
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