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I haven’t offered one of these in a while, and things are still in a bit of turmoil around here – so anyone wanting to introduce a topic, introduce away!

Getting settled into my new place has really disrupted my writing for now.  But the vegetable and flower gardens have given me a chance to reconnect viscerally with the earth, an opportunity that has been very rare for the past twelve years.  I’ve made no altar or offerings to the spirits of the place yet,…

Yes indeed they sometimes do. And it’s a good example of the power of interfaith work.

I will always remember my shocked amazement as I stood in the office of the Politics Department at Whitman College, watching as television news repeated over and over the image of the first World Trade Center tower in flames after being struck by an airliner.  And then, the images of a second airliner hitting the…

Celia Farran, the wonderful Pagan song writer and singer, gave a house concert here as a small part of her West Coast tour.  I had first heard her sing on the wonderful “Symbol“ video and then played a role in helping her come to the attention of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, for whom she wrote and…

General Petraeus has warned that if Korans are burned by Sauronic bigots our troops will be in greater danger.  This has ignited a fascinating debate over at Huffingtonpost as to whether these imbeciles have the right to burn the book.  Pretty much lost in the discussion is a far deeper issue: that between empire and…

I have long been wondering why such deep antagonism against Social Security exists among so many prominent people in this country.  Under George Bush while Medicare suffered very genuine financial perils Republican politicians and conservative leaders never mentioned its problems all the while whining incessantly that we should “privatize” Social Security because of it’s quite…

David Spangler was one of the early leaders at Findhorn, and has since  worked in his own way in a broad spiritual approach  that I often find attractive: a mystical approach that honors and loves the world of manifestation rather than endless seeking to transcend it.  I was just sent a very interesting little essay…

During the tumult of my move, now finally subsiding, a piece I wrote on the future of Paganism appeared on the Patheo site.  It has a number of very though provoking pieces on this subject by prominant members of our community.  That includes  Erynn Rowan Laurie who frequently comments here.

Historically there has been a significant link between Pagans and libertarians.  One of the earliest Pagan organizations, the Church of All Worlds, was inspired in significant part by libertarian science fiction author Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land.  Some of the founding folks involved in CAW considered themselves libertarians.  You can read about this…
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