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But my Paganism is very much aligned with these words of Walt Whitman, from the...

May 31, 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of Whitman's birth. It seems appropriate to reflect...

What is special about propositions is that they are true or false no matter who...

The beautiful and terrible (in the sense of intense, formidable, powerful, going back to a...

Festival season is coming! And I'd like to invite you to two events where I'll...

Travel gives you an opportunity to raise the magickal energy, but you have to take...

As I write this I am in that most liminal of places, in transit between...

The idea that one reaches mastery and then stops learning and starts teaching might be...

"Priest" can be a specific term referring to Catholic religious figures but it also has...

The exploits of superheroes can inspire the merely mortal citizens of their comic book and...

In O'Keefe's view, throughout human history magic has served as a form of resistance the...

There is a Buddhist practice of viewing each person as having been your mother or...

But it seems to me that if we're going to talk about the problems of...

Did a teen being dumb about sharing space become, in our national insanity, the screen...

Welcome to the first Random Wednesday of 2019, a randomly appearing feature of short bits...

We sometimes think of creativity as a light, playful thing, an airy-fairy luxury for the...

Just as it is a genuine act of witchcraft to give a friend with an...

Are we on the watch for the light, or for the darkness? The whole phenomenon...

I woke up yesterday morning to the news that President Bush -- the first President...

Deities are either invented, created, or discovered. And that is a process of story-telling. We...

For those of us in the business of unusual religious practices, the fortieth anniversary of...

What we owe our veterans is not some "thank you for your service" platitude. What...

It is ironic and problematic that this style of republic, structured from the start to...

What if we thought of the veil between the worlds not as a separation between...

A few years ago, I was of the opinion that anti-Semitism was something we'd gotten...

As we drum and dance and support each other around the fire, we sort of...

The sort of King we are speaking of here truly "reigns but does not rule";...

Kavanaugh's defenders say "he's not that sort of man". But we would have said the...

It is the way of these things that they are ineffable. To even say "I...

But I didn't come here to talk to you about McCain's misogyny or homophobia or...