Finding The God
How does one find the God? Perhaps the gods find us and we don't have much choice in the matter? Jason Mankey recounts his early experiences with deity and how ended up "raising the horns" above all...
View ArticleThe Questions of Polytheism
I've always called myself a polytheist, but the label is no where near as important as my relationship with deity. Are the gods somehow all related? Does it matter? Why defining my own polytheism often...
View ArticleSuffering For the Gods
I don't understand a theology of suffering as reward. Why would the gods want us to be miserable?
View ArticleWhy I Believe in the Supernatural
Sometimes it feels like "supernatural" is a dirty word. It's as if believing in anything unexplainable makes me a doubter of science at best, and delusional at worst. However, I've just had too many...
View ArticleGods or No Gods? (And Why It Sometimes Doesn’t Matter)
There are Pagans out there who believe in deity and some who don't. A difference in beliefs doesn't somehow make someone "less a Pagan" than your or I. We are all out there trying to connect with...
View ArticleWhy I Call Myself a Polytheist
I've always thought of myself as a practitioner of Wicca and a polytheist. I think deity is real and that it can and does interact with us.
View ArticleMany Gods, Many Paganisms
While I remain a big fan of the Pagan Umbrella I think there are some holes in it, but it leaks a bit less when we break bread and drink cider together.
View ArticleNo Absolutes: The Things I Don’t Know About Deity
When it comes to deity I try to avoid writing and even thinking about it in absolutes. To put it simply, when it comes to the nature of deity, I just don't know.
View ArticleOn Being a “Bad” Polytheist
Over the last couple of years I’ve heard several times from various sources that Wiccans aren’t polytheists, even though the majority of Wiccans I know identify as polytheists.
View ArticlePaganism, Batman, and Doing it Wrong
If you do not love my thing in the same way, to the same degree, and for exactly the same reasons that I do, you are doing it wrong.
View ArticleEver-Changing Deity
I love experiencing my deities as they were worshipped in the past, but they most resonate with me because they inhabit many different worlds. They live in the past, present, and future.
View ArticleMany Gods Pagan
How do I know when someone's a polytheist? When they believe in many gods, are open to experiencing them, and revel in the joy others feel when deity reaches out or calls to folks.
View ArticlePaganism Is Mostly Fine: The End is Not Near
Did you get the memo that Paganism is dying? I didn't either, but it's a notice that goes out every once in awhile or when someone is trying to attract attention to their blog. I think Paganism today...
View ArticleMagick & Deity are Two of the Foundations of Modern Paganism
The exact start date of Modern Paganism, might be up for debate, but not the presence of magick and deity in its origins. We don't all have to agree on the reality of such things, but we can't deny...
View ArticlePerhaps the Word “Pagan” Has Become Inadequate?
There's a bigger world than just "Pagan" out there, with an awful lot of other folks who think like the majority of us. How we all manage to fit together and find one another is another issue.
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