putting the butt in Spring

Hey folks, it’s Spring! At least in the Northern Hemisphere it is, which is where I live, so Southern friends please bear with me. I’m feeling pretty damn good, but there has been a lot of crap flying around the news. In addition to the ongoing, appalling condition of American politics with endless, irrational ignorance [...]

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Windows and Walls

When you look at religions from the outside you often see a lot of structure, a lot of form. The form could be ritual, laws, texts, iconography, custom, dogma, canonical narrative, established teaching or asserted philosophy. The essence of the religion may well be something else ultimately. Most religions I believe have a good essence. [...]

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A Pagan Home – part 2

Last month I made a post entitled “A Pagan Home for Everyone” which was mainly floating questions about the position of modern Pagan religions with respect to serving a people as a whole, being accessible to all, and engaging in wider and deeper ethical questions about our identity and the way we practice and organize. [...]

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a Pagan home for everyone

Paganism has grown and developed over time to accommodate groups large and small, with particular interests and wants, often as a countercultural movement, sometimes “progressive” or modernizing and sometimes “conservative”, sometimes a mixture of the two, but rarely with the need to actually be a representative, accessible, equable religion for all people. And as people’s [...]

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gay muslims

When I started this blog I said I would post on people I admired and here is certainly one. Daayiee Abdullah is an imam (muslim priest) who fully supports the rights of LGBT people within Islam, and is himself a gay man. I first read of him in this article in Pink News about LGBT [...]

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