Nine Things I Think: Pagan Tea Time, retreats and conventions, new music from Damh the Bard and Wendy Rule, the Olympics, the Super Bowl and more. Read more
Nine Things I Think: Pagan Tea Time, retreats and conventions, new music from Damh the Bard and Wendy Rule, the Olympics, the Super Bowl and more. Read more
When fear causes you to take reasonable precautions and think about what you’re doing, that’s a good thing. When fear causes you to make major lifestyle changes, keeps you from doing what you want to do, and persuades you to spend limited resources chasing absolute security, that’s a bad thing. Read more
On a beautiful January day in Houston, 89 Pagans from a wide variety of traditions came together to talk, eat, and get to know each other better. Our communities would benefit from more events like this. Read more
The conflation of belief with faith and faith with religion is a particularly unhelpful result of 1600 years of institutional Christianity. Still, there is a place for faith in modern Paganism – not in having faith but in being faithful. Read more
Gary Andrews is the director and producer of The Spirit of Albion, the 2012 independent film based on the music of Damh the Bard. I called it “the Pagan movie I’ve been waiting for.” Gary talks about Spirit, film making on a tight budget, and his new project Tales of Albion. Read more
As a seminary student in 1950, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a paper titled “The Influence of the Mystery Religions on Christianity.” It’s a fascinating look at the early thoughts of an amazing man. Read more
A professor at the University of Virginia has cataloged 2500 cases of children with past life memories, evidence that supports the idea of reincarnation. While I find the evidence compelling, it does not “prove” reincarnation is true, and to claim that it does devalues our very real mystical and mythical experiences. Read more
A visit to the Civil War battlefield in Vicksburg, Mississippi brought some unexpected feelings I’m still trying to figure out. Read more
Paganism needs institutions if it’s going to become the societal force we need it to become. But let’s leave room in our Big Tent for the mystics and wild witches who will not let us forget why we became Pagans in the first place. Read more
I worship the Gods who call to me, who challenge me to live according to their virtues and to assist with their work. And I worship Nature, the Mother of us all, of whom we are a part. These I find worthy of honor and respect. Read more
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