What do an OBOD camp and the Buddhist principle of impermanence have to do with conflict in the Polytheist Movement? In my case, quite a lot. Read more
In a local, face-to-face group, you quickly learn what’s worth fighting over and what isn’t. Online, all we have are discussions. We don’t have to work together to plan the next public ritual. So there’s nothing to keep us from letting honest religious disagreements turn into taking things personally… or into making them personal. Read more
As anyone who has ever been in any kind of a romantic partnership will attest, relationships require work. Fail to do that work and the relationship will crumble. The same is true of our religious relationships. Read more
If you’re looking for the foundations of most polytheist religions, you don’t have to dig very far before you run into ancestors. Ancestor veneration doesn’t require special revelation – it comes intuitively to almost all of us. Read more
We have everything we need to restore polytheism and our many polytheist religions to a prominence they haven’t seen in almost 2000 years. We just have to stop trying to save polytheism and start practicing polytheism. Read more
Almost 80 CUUPS members and friends from around the country traveled to Salem, Massachusetts for a long weekend of rituals, workshops, keynote addresses, and the kind of conversations we can’t seem to have anywhere else. Read more
This is my keynote presentation from the CUUPS Convocation, condensed and reformatted for a blog post. Read more
We have been unable to separate debate on polytheist concepts from our feelings about individual polytheists. Our discussion of the role of purity in polytheism has been derailed by impurities in our conversation. If I was a hipster I’d revel in the irony. Read more
The AFA’s recent announcement drops all pretense, but their record has long shown they’re a racist organization. What does your record say you are? Read more
Yesterday, the Denton Unitarian Universalist Fellowship held a Reconsecration ceremony following eight months of repairs and renovations on our building after the fires of last December. It’s good to be back! Read more
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