I cannot save the world from fascism and I do not intend to die trying. I'm working to put my own mask on first, then help others to breathe as the cabin depressurizes and we continue to head downward. Read more
I cannot save the world from fascism and I do not intend to die trying. I'm working to put my own mask on first, then help others to breathe as the cabin depressurizes and we continue to head downward. Read more
Intellectual knowledge about the Gods is no substitute for first-hand experience of the Gods. But from those experiences, and through our intellectual discourse, we can learn something about the Gods. And that helps us to build robust polytheist religions for our time. Read more
Nobody has the kind of name recognition Raymond Buckland and Starhawk had in the 1980s. But people are still recording songs, writing books, and teaching at conferences. Big Name Pagans have been replaced by Practitioner-Leaders who are doing Paganism first and writing about Paganism second. Read more
I haven’t been a Methodist in many years. But this decision grieves me deeply, for the memory of the church I once knew, and for the sorrow of my friends and family who so desperately wanted their church to do the right thing. Read more
Some people think everything is spiritual, while others think the spiritual and the mundane must be kept strictly separated. Both are wrong. Here are four mundane skills that can be very helpful in spiritual applications. Read more
If any of these six reasons apply to you, you shouldn’t make an oath to a God. But if the next three sound familiar, maybe you should. Read more
A review of a new book of short essays by modern polytheists, some well-known and others not. They vary in length and emphasis, but they’re all thought-provoking. And at this point in the polytheist restoration, thought-provoking is what we need most. Read more
New York Times book editor Pamela Paul said we should “Let Children Get Bored Again.” While she makes some valid points, boredom was one of the worst parts of my childhood. I promised myself I’d never descend into that kind of monotony again once I was in charge of my own life. Read more
Humans have been asking Big Questions for at least as long as we’ve been human. The more you wrestle with them, the more you intuitively understand their magnitude and the impossibility of finding definitive answers, and the more accepting you become of the provisional answers you can find. Read more
Based on their own words and experiences, some Pagans should be full participants in observing and cataloging the changes in our religious and magical environment, figuring out what they mean, and trying out new ways to respond to them. Instead, they’re ignoring the message and trying to discredit the messenger. Read more
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