It's Pride weekend in Seattle. On Wednesday night a trans activist leaving a fundraiser for victims of the Orlando shooting was approached by a white man who said “happy Pride” before launching a vicious face-punching attack that landed the survivor in the hospital.
Whenever a friend talks about some difficulty they are facing in life I ask “can we remember you in circle?” Here’s what that means.
Here’s how it started: a farmer friend reached out to me and asked if I could officiate at a marriage. Two of her farming apprentices wanted to get married right away so it would basically be that same week.
I’ve been doing devotionals to deities for several decades. When I started it was difficult to find instructions on how to do it.
Containment, transformation, emergence. Virginia Beane Rutter describes this process as an initiatory pattern.
Last night I saw a lot of cute costumes. Halloween as a secular holiday is about dressing up, getting and giving candy, and admiring people's artistic skills in carving squash.
The Inaugural Women’s Session at the Parliament of the World’s Religions is giving me hope for the future.
There’s a conversation going on among Pagans about cultural appropriation. I’m re-examining my own work in light of these discussions.
We are discussing Lawrence Gibney's documentary Going Clear, Scientology and the Prison of Belief.
We are examining the relationship between L. Ron Hubbard and the Ordo Templi Orientis.
