Outside the Charmed Circle
Are gods and spirits real? It's a fun question to debate with friends over drinks, but perhaps the question we should ask ourselves instead is, does it matter? Read more
Are gods and spirits real? It's a fun question to debate with friends over drinks, but perhaps the question we should ask ourselves instead is, does it matter? Read more
I wrote a book! And since it comes out in just a few days, this is probably a good time to say something about it. Read more
Harry Potter has permeated much of the popular culture, and p-words are hardly immune to this influence. In fact, as practitioners of magical spirituality, we're perhaps even more susceptible. Read more
Manon Hedenborg White's "The Eloquent Blood," a doctoral thesis on the goddess Babalon, is the most important book on esoteric practice in the past twenty years. Read more
What counts as "Pagan enough" to be covered in a Pagan blog, or a blog about Paganism? Read more
Here are a few things I’ve noticed about talking with white Pagans about racism. These are all generalizations, to be sure, but that doesn’t make them untrue. Read more
Sometimes that racism is overt: shaven-headed, tatted-up dudes spouting white-supremacist dog-whistles. Most of the time, it's the casual racism of "nice" white folks providing cover for other, not-so-nice white folks. Read more
I was ruminating on the similarities between geek culture and p-word culture, and the thought occurred to me: what's in my magical and devotional Appendix N? Read more
One of the weird things about being a writer is that people sometimes assume that I actually know what I'm doing and ask for my opinions and advice. Read more
If the modern Pagan and polytheist communities aren't willing to be inclusive of all races and ethnicities, they're not worth the breath it takes to repudiate them. Read more
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