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July 2013

July 01, 2013
Today (Monday, 7/1), Amazon.com will be offering the e-book edition of Seeking the Mystery: An...

June 2013

June 28, 2013
Amazon.com will be offering the e-book edition of _Seeking the Mystery: An Introduction to Pagan...
June 04, 2013
Often people use the terms visualisation, meditation and pathworking interchangeably, but they are different techniques,...
June 01, 2013
Ritual often seems like an activity designed only for interaction with the preternatural or the...

May 2013

May 27, 2013
Recently, after fourteen years of interfaith dialogue and sheer hard work, the Scottish Pagan Federation...
May 20, 2013
Academic books cost a lot of money and can be hard to get. Why is...
May 17, 2013
Pagans widely agree that fiction has spiritual power. But what roles does fiction play in...
May 15, 2013
The practice of taking quotes and practices out of context and applying them without regard...
May 02, 2013
The "argument from desire" is that we all have a "God-shaped hole" in consciousness, which...

April 2013

April 30, 2013
Sacred Lands conference, summer Contemporary Global Paganisms course at Cherry Hill Seminary, and crowdsourcing Pagan...
April 29, 2013
Having distinctive religious traditions matters because each tradition expresses a distinctive identity, philosophy, tradition, set...
April 24, 2013
The "Pagan umbrella" is leaking, but I think we need to look at ways to...
April 22, 2013
Metaphors are a very powerful thing. They can dictate how we we see the world,...
April 20, 2013
Tradition is something that grows and evolves. It is not set in stone, but is...
April 19, 2013
Like everyone else in Boston, I am wholly distracted by the manhunt for the Boston...
April 18, 2013
What is fundamentalism? Is it all bad? Can the term 'fundamentalist' be applied to Pagans?
April 17, 2013
I was honored this week by an interview by Dr. Ethan Doyle White for his...
April 16, 2013
Pagans don't have a holy book with commandments from a deity. We tend to derive...
April 14, 2013
What makes you a Pagan? Is it what you believe, what you do, or something...
April 12, 2013
In my view, there are six separate aspects to initiation. There is the inner process...
April 10, 2013
(1) How is paganism different? (2) What is the significance of its difference? (3) What...
April 10, 2013
I think the atheist critique does religions a great service - it's like having an...
April 08, 2013
Part of the function of humour is to subvert the accepted order of things. Whenever...
April 06, 2013
A friend on Facebook asked, how does magic work? My immediate response to this was,...
April 05, 2013
I am Pagan because no other way makes sense. The living world speaks to me...
April 04, 2013
There are several different modes of ritual, which have different meanings and purposes. When writing...
April 02, 2013
If there is any objective external reality to the energies that Pagans talk about, then...

March 2013

March 31, 2013
There are many different views of how deities relate to each other and to the...
March 30, 2013
Wicca is my tribe, my sangha, my dharma. Even when other Wiccans drive me crazy,...
March 29, 2013
Some people might argue that Paganism benefits from its counter-cultural status, and that teaching it...
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