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December 2015

December 24, 2015
An altar is a focus for devotion, prayer or meditation. It can be simple or...
December 22, 2015
The sharing of food and drink is one of the most ancient and basic rituals...
December 19, 2015
A mandala is a twofold meditation tool. The process of creating it is meditative, and...
December 17, 2015
Most spiritual and religious traditions have a corpus of stories which transmit their values and...
December 11, 2015
The kids at the fundamentalist bootcamp for LGBT children were slogging through the mud on...
December 05, 2015
The elves all cheered wildly. At last they would see off those horrible impostors, the...
December 03, 2015
I wrote this poem in 2003 in response to the Iraq war. It still applies...
December 01, 2015
Possession, Depossession, and Divine Relationships would make an excellent supporting text for an individual who...

November 2015

November 18, 2015
When we are birthing, it helps to breathe through the pain. An invitation.
November 06, 2015
There is always a middle way between two extremes. Here I attempt to present a...

October 2015

October 23, 2015
The body manifests in many different shapes and sizes and colours. There are female bodies,...
October 09, 2015
The Blues originate from a particular cultural and social history unique to Black people. Yes,...
October 07, 2015
In my experience, magical polarity can be created by any pair of opposites. Inner and...

September 2015

September 30, 2015
What many commentators miss is the power differential in cultural appropriation. People forget that we...
September 29, 2015
What if a woman’s voice is the tree falling in the forest? What if women's...
September 22, 2015
Could it be time to introduce some qualifying adjectives to indicate what level of racism...
September 17, 2015
Alan Moore has profoundly influenced the direction of both mainstream and literary comics... plus, he's...
September 15, 2015
According to CG Jung, there are three levels of symbolism: personal, cultural, and universal. Personal...
September 14, 2015
The subject of group dynamics is complex, but one way of observing group dynamics is...
September 12, 2015
Learning is a collaborative process between the teacher and the learner. It is not the...
September 09, 2015
The history of madness is long, convoluted, and fascinating. Different theories and treatments have come...
September 08, 2015
We decided that the title Sermons from the Mound no longer quite fitted the type...
September 07, 2015
Homer’s Odyssey recounts the correct way to welcome a stranger who has been washed ashore:...
September 04, 2015
The fact that people can own land, that property is deemed more important than human...
September 02, 2015
Arguments make some people uncomfortable. It is true that conflict can be divisive, but it...

August 2015

August 31, 2015
I have often wondered why some people experience gods all the time - indeed, can't...
August 28, 2015
Jason Mankey has a great post on "When Someone Leaves Paganism" and how to respond...
August 24, 2015
Being in right relationship with our fellow embodied beings, and in right relationship with our...
August 20, 2015
I think that theology should always be discursive and not prescriptive. It is not up...
August 18, 2015
In "The Allegory of Love", CS Lewis wrote that in the declining years of ancient...
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