A Cup of Wine: Reconstructionism and Spirit Work
I stayed up to “too early” one morning, watching the movie The Exorcist, while hanging out with an adorable cupcake-scented unicorn named Kissymuzzle. Her wide-stitched eyes poured over the movie which...
View ArticleBrangelina and Two Mountains
It’s the kind of early autumn day where the sky is a bland and unremarkable grey, and against this backdrop the leaves slowly reveal their inner fires of crimson and gold. A nearby mountain, what I can...
View ArticleRoman Sewage
There was a marvelous movie-event at the local cinema earlier this night—a documentary about Pompeii sponsored by the British Museum and in support of one of their current exhibits. Please ma’am,...
View ArticleCaring and Exchange in Relationships
We people are social creatures. As such, most of us have one other being in our lives—a child, a friend, a sibling, a partner or spouse, an animal companion—that we communicate with on a regular basis....
View ArticleWD-40, or On Praise
When I was a kid going to Sunday School I used to hear the word “praise” get tossed around quite a bit. Even today, the word “praise” evokes in my mind an image of a beaming older woman happy to be at...
View ArticleThe Horror of Palmyra
I have wanted to write about the matter of Daesh and their hostile takeover of the ancient city of Palmyra for days, but I have not been able to write about it. Summer solstice, a time of celebration...
View ArticleDefacing Sacred Images for Fun and Profit
There has been a matter on my mind for a long time; a grievance that has long needed addressing and it’s been one that to my knowledge no one has touched. Before I get to that, I would like to talk...
View ArticleIt’s Ok to Pray for Paris and Beirut
It is troubling to see how some folks are turning the tragedies of Paris and Beirut into a platform to oppose religion in all stripes and forms. I want to be very clear here. These tragedies are not...
View ArticleSeeing the Trees for the Forest
Sometimes, even among us polytheists, there is still a tendency to reduce to a few that which numbers the stars. This tendency is an internal artifact of ingrained patterns, an unconscious bad habit...
View ArticlePolitics and Polytheism
You can have politics, and you can have polytheism, and you can have them both together; but, it is folly to mistake politics as polytheism. The term “politics”, to be very brief, has to do with the...
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