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Referring back to an earlier post, some people have suggested that Pagan ‘theology’ was through myths.  In a sense this is true, but in a sense that I think is deeper, it is not.  Perhaps this is because of how what we mean by ‘theology’ has evolved over the centuries. When the Odyssey was an…

Tonight, at 8:30 in whatever time zone they live, millions of people will be turning out their lights in a symbolic action pressing for worldwide change on energy and our relations with the More Then Human World. Sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, the Earth Hour website reports Earth Hour organizers have commitments from nearly…

Troy Camplin’s quip “I’ve always told people there are in fact 6 billion religions on earth” in a recent blog comment inspires this post. When I first became a Witch I was bothered by the existence of ‘traditions’ considerably younger than I was.  To make matters worse, it was within a NROOGD public Sabbat that…

Glen Greenwald over at Salon has an important post  for anyone interested in understanding our economic crisis, and the shortcomings even Democrats have in dealing with it.  George Bush treated this country like a banana republic.  But Argentina might be a better example today.  Over the years Greenwald has been one of the most reasonable…

I just got through reading a report on the global warming denial conference reported in the Scotsman, a major paper in Scotland.  Curious, I read the comments. or many of them anyway. As I read them I thought of doing this blog post.

Given that even Fundamentalist Jews can endorse and presumably practice genocide, it is refreshing to see what Pagans are doing in this context.  April is Genocide Prevention Month  because it is the month when many genocidal events began.   An interfaith activity has been organized addressing this ideal. It has a large Pagan component, and…

I try to give religious fundamentalists the benefit of the doubt, innocent until proven guilty, and the like.  I have members of my family who hold those beliefs, and they are good people in their personal relationships. But by the Gods I get tired of the crimes and wickedness of their leaders, and their more…

Today I read “The Race to Save the Frogs” by Jennifer S. Holland in the April National Geographic.   Her article describes the horrendous impact the fungal disease chytrid  is having on the world’s amphibians, killing off entire species.  Holland quotes Lee Berger, who discovered the fungus, “The impact of chytridiomycosis on frogs is the most…

I have just finished Linda Hogan’s Dwellings.  Hers is not a new book.  It appeared in 1995, and I missed it then. I have been the poorer for my oversight.  I stumbled across it in a bookstore -and picked it up because I am very interested in the feminine dimension to today’s environmentalism, a dimension…

I got up this morning, well before dawn but too late to drive down and join friends in Berkeley for their coven’s Sabbat.  So I walked out into the Laguna de Santa Rosa area,  just east of town.  It turned out to be a wonderful way to observe Ostara.  Morning is a liminal time, being…
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