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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Ghost of Bobby Lee says so much that I have always wanted to say about being an American, and he says it so much better.  Nothing Pagan here, it is universal.

Mark Kleiman has a very interesting post up on the gradual opening of science and medicine to the value of entheogens that had been smothered as part of the mindless backlash against the Sixties. As older Pagans know, entheogens played an important role in opening many of us to spiritual dimensions of reality.  They certainly…

This post fulfills a promise I made to discuss the tough examples readers raised in my post on beauty and suffering.  I do it from a Pagan perspective, one emphasizing the sacredness of the world and of the basic processes that make it up. Every time I go to the local grocery store I put…

Maureen Dowd hits a home run on women, religion, and power today.  The most important single truth we Pagans have to offer the broader spiritual community is our view of women and the feminine.  Dowd explains why – though she seems unaware of us.

This is National Poetry Month, and as spring caresses the hills of northern California, one of the most magickal places in the San Francisco Bar Area, Mt. Tamalpais, is rising serenely above the hustle and bustle below, the good and the bad, the nasty and the generous, clothed in waving grasses and spring flowers and trees of…

Video tapes Fox and others made such a big deal about concerning corruption at ACORN were edited to show the opposite of what happened.  ‘Conservatism’ today is not an honorable political force contesting with different ideas and priorities, let alone, as I believe is true for genuine conservatism, a necessary element in the political ecology…

A new state motto for their license plates: Virginia is for Losers. What a wonderful group of people, the Republican Party of the Confederacy.

The world is complex and our knowledge of it is small.  Each and every one of us benefits from knowledge we do not have used by people we do not know.  Virtually nothing we “know” is based on first hand experience.  In terms of our awareness of our complex environment we may be ahead of…

This piece has absolutely nothing to do with Pagan spirituality.  It does have a lot to do with why I am who I am. Two low-profile brothers have recently been in the news as the largest funders of attacks on the scientific evidence cited for global warming. They are also and have always been major…

IMPORTANT UPDATE below At a Good Friday service in the Vatican and attended by Pope Benedict, preacher Father Raniero Cantalamessa compared the current scandals over sexual abuse by Church officials with “the most shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.” To say this is obscene is perhaps an understatement.
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