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With which label do you identify most?
2012 Thing on Thursday #9 After numerous polls on liturgy, we now begin a series returning to fundamental concepts and questions. This week, let’s revisit debates about what to call ourselves. This issue is complicated. Much ink has been spilled…
Read MoreHow should we behave towards the stories of myth? / Come comportarsi con i racconti del mito? by Hilaria
Ancient Hellenic Pagans didn’t acknowledge conflict between science and religion.* Yet we are quite familiar with their old myths: Homer and Hesiod have left us an immortal poetic heritage, full of woo and unlikelihoods, where the Gods are more hysterical…
Read MoreHow and why do you purify?
2012 Thing on Thursday #8 Last week’s poll on creating sacred space yielded some surprising results: a leading response was “purifying the space.” This is puzzling because “purification” was not favored at all on our earlier liturgical elements poll. It…
Read MoreThe big White splotch
– by B. T. Newberg Looking over our list of contributors here at HP, we have an imperfect, but not terrible, balance of the sexes: about 1/3 women to 2/3 men. The GLBT demographic is fairly well-represented. We’ve also got…
Read MoreA naturalistic ritual for the ancestors – Samhain
– by B. T. Newberg The following Samhain ritual is an attempt at developing an order of ritual rooted wholly in naturalistic perspectives. The language of the script emphasizes non-metaphysical, natural terms and processes. It’s broad enough to work for…
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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