The varieties of religious experience
Having distinctive religious traditions matters because each tradition expresses a distinctive identity, philosophy, tradition, set of values, mythology, and community identity. These traditions are...
View ArticleIndividuation in Pagan traditions
The aims of Pagan traditions with regard to the self, soul, spirit, consciousness and its relationship with the Universe are different from that of other religions.
View ArticlePagan sacraments
A rite of passage is a ritual designed to make sacred a particular life event or transition from one stage of life to another. We might also call these rituals 'sacraments'. Most Pagans presume that...
View ArticleWiccanate Privilege and Polytheist Wiccans
We should dismantle Wiccanate privilege as soon as possible. Let’s have devotional polytheism, liturgical Paganism, Wiccan (rather than Wiccan-flavoured) ritual, revived Eleusinian mysteries, Heathen...
View ArticleA Dance of Impermanence: Introducing Myself in Two Chapters (Otherwise...
New contributor, Sarah Sadie! "I went into the class defining myself as a loose-ish, pagan-ish follower-ish of an undefined goddess figure, and I more or less believed that all the gods and goddesses...
View ArticleDancing and Dowsing: Moving Into Polytheism
I went to a dance class for the first time in years a few days ago.
View ArticleAre Polytheists an Endangered Species?
Why polytheism is the default setting to which religion will always gravitate.
View ArticlePolytheism and Apple Pie
John Beckett has a witty and amusing post up about apple pie, vanilla pudding, and other kinds of dessert. He’s got practically the entire readership of Patheos Pagan going “I want apple pie”. But he...
View ArticleHail Eris!
The way things have been going lately, anyone would think that Eris had lobbed an apple pie into the middle of the Patheos Pagan channel. There are so many apple and apple pie related posts, it's hard...
View ArticleMetaphors for Religion
There are many different metaphors floating about for religions, and each one illuminates something different about the nature of religion - that's why I collect them.
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