Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

A Pagan's Blog

I said that the best quick and dirty way you could tell when a ‘conservative’ leader was lying by whether his or her mouth was moving.  Some people took exception.  Now It’s objective and not a matter of debate. At one time conservatism actually stood for something other than hypocrisy and deceit.  I hope that…

Joe Conason has written a very thought provoking piece on politics and empathy in today’s Salon.com.  If he is right, and I think he is, there are serious mental disorders underlying a great many of today’s leading ‘conservatives’ and presumably some of their supporters.  That would explain a lot.

Modern factory farms may soon be raising animals that are “pain free,” and so not able to suffer physically from the abominable conditions under which they live.  So says a story in this week’s New Scientist, my favorite science magazine. (It is not up on the web yet, but a similar older one is.)  Adam…

Pagan cultures have always made use of two sources of knowledge about the world, which Karen Armstrong defined in her book The Battle for God as mythos and logos.  Modern societies, including most modern religion, limits itself to one, logos.  We need both.

I just returned from our Sunday Farmers’ Market, which as summer rolls towards its end has become a feast for they eyes as well as the body.  Huge mounds of organic tomatoes, squash, beans, onions, broccoli, peaches, spinach, greens and peppers grace the farmers’ displays. (If you have never smelled a freshly picked pepper you…

Starhawk tells it like it is and while it’s too late to save Van Jones’ position because of Obama’s increasingly apparent lack of character, it’s not too late to tell this so-far failure of a leader that he made a mistake and needs to start taking his supporters as seriously as the people who won’t…

The Second Tragic Flaw     Most conservatives have realized that the integral Old Order can never be re-established, and many would not want to now if they could.  Modernity’s material advantages are too great.  Instead they sing the praises of ‘traditional religion’ in today’s world as providing society’s needed moral ballast.  This religion is the scriptural…

The argument I am making about modernity’s intimate connection to nihilism and irrationality is in many respects a classic conservative argument.  Yet conservatism is as infected with the virus of nihilism as the strains of modernity it perceptively criticizes.  (This is part of a project of mine investigating how a Pagan view of reality changes…

Another one of these.

The Locust is a wonderful, and very Pagan, Maori song.  Enjoy. With many thanks to Clare for turning me on to it.
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners