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.
Is UU Atheism a Form of White Privilege?
I am atheist. But I think, if we are truly to fight racism–both within and without–we just might need God after all.
5 Ways Paganism Needs to Grow Up
It’s time for Paganism as a whole to grow up. If we don’t, as a community, mature beyond the first stage of spiritual development, then we will continue to only attract people who are in the first stage of spiritual development, and we will only keep them for as long as they are in that first stage. When they make the transition to the second stage, they will leave Paganism.
10 Signs You’re Half-Assing Your Pagan Ritual
I have been fortunate to have attended some great Pagan rituals. But, gods know, I have suffered through a lot more rituals that were just terrible. A lot of you probably know what I’m talking about. I know fellow-Patheos blogger,…
My Religion is Rooted, Literally.
My religion is rooted. In fact, it is a religion of roots…and of tubers and worms and actinobacteria. I am a dirt worshiping Pagan. My gospel is the gospel of compost.
The Wild Hunt for Justice: At the Intersection of Ritual and Protest
I was recently invited to the New Orleans Pagan Pride Day this year to lead the opening ritual. This was my attempt to bring together elements of Pagan ritual with elements of political protest. 