I’m not blaming Paganism for the end of the world as we know it. Well, not entirely.
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Another Video Review of “Godless Paganism”
Another great review of “Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans”
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Paganism Needs a Prophet (but it ain’t me)
I hope a prophet does come along to lead Pagans out of the wilderness of dogmatism and superstition … but it ain’t me babe!
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Rebooting My Altar
The process of “rebooting” my altar made it come alive for me again. Each object resonated with significance, and the whole once again became holy.
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Naturalistic “Pagan” Books You Won’t Find in the Metaphysical Section
Originally posted on Humanistic Paganism:
I love bookstores and libraries. Honestly, I feel more at home surrounded by books than I do surrounded by people. But since becoming a Naturalistic Pagan, my trips to the bookstore have become a lot more complicated. Every time I go into a bookstore, I visit the Paganism section, or…
“Fellow Workers With God” by John Trevor
I was recently re-reading the autobiography of one of my spiritual inspirations, John Trevor, the founder of the Labour Church, titled My Quest for God. I came… Read more ““Fellow Workers With God” by John Trevor”
Read more“An Inescapable Network of Mutuality”: Martin Luther King’s Ecological Thought
Originally posted on Pray With Your Feet: “A Single Garment of Destiny” In his penultimate sermon, delivered on March 31, 1968, at the National Cathedral in Washington,…
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Pagan with a small “p”
For every gem of genuine ecological wisdom I have found in the Pagan community, there is a deluge of crystals and correspondences, divinities and divination apps, wizards and wishful thinking. Maybe it’s time to face up to the fact that, while I am spiritually and religiously “pagan” with a small-p, culturally I am not a capital-P “Pagan”.
The Fairies Have Left the Building: Enchantment is an Experience, Not a Belief
What is needed is not belief, not fantasies and wishful thinking, but but practices which get us out of our heads and away from fantasies and wishful thinking. What is needed is not belief in an otherworld populated by fairies and dragons, but practices reveal to us where we actually are and the holiness of this place we call earth.
The Atheist Persecution Complex
No, I’m sorry, but being “forced” to listen to a prayer in a Unitarian church is not oppression, especially in light of the serious, systemic, and pervasive oppression of people of color in our society.