Do You Believe the Earth Is Alive and Sacred?

April 12-13, 2013 in Columbia, SC In today’s post-modern, urbanized world, where everything is a commodity, how and where do Pagans find their sacred places?  How should we protect and maintain these sites?  In colonized worlds, how do we avoid the appropriation of these lands? If Goddess is immanent in nature, what makes some places … Read more

The Burning Times

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. ~ Pat Robertson (whose media power, political influence, and global business interests are not a joke) I have been increasingly dismayed by some of the Witchcraft-focused tripe coming out in recent books, TV, and films.  But I’ve been … Read more

Thirty Days of Thanksgiving: Day Six

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarten.  I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, helping to dispel darkness, ignorance, and stupidity. ~ Michael Moore Today is Day Six of my Thirty Days of Thanksgiving. And it’s Election Day in the United States.  So today, I give heartfelt … Read more

A Samhain Remembrance of the Ancestors

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. – Exodus 22:18 On this day in 1985, the American House and Senate dropped the “Helms amendment,” which would have specifically barred the IRS from granting tax-exempt status to groups that promote Witchcraft. And on this day in 1998, only fourteen years ago, the Vatican finally took … Read more

Be the Peace You Want to See: International Day of Peace, 2012

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama Join me today in the global celebration of the International Day of Peace, which this year spreads across the whole weekend (yes, just Imagine that!). Special activities and celebrations will take place all across the world over the 2012 … Read more