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The goddess Kali and Religious Naturalism, by Colin Robinson

Editor’s Note:  Although HP generally focuses on developing personal relationships with mythology from the Euro-Mediterranean culture zone (in order to encourage specificity and depth), it is also possible to learn what we can from other cultures.  Colin offers a picture…

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Sustainable Pagan communities: An interview with Alison Leigh Lilly

This week we interview Alison Leigh Lilly, who has just launched a new podcast along with Jeff Lilly called Faith, Fern, and Compass. B. T. Newberg:  Working for the Pagan Newswire Collective, editing No Unsacred Place, and now podcasting, you’ve…

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What are our root metaphors?

– by B. T. Newberg I need your help folks.  At the core of every religious tradition is a root metaphor which fuses ideas of how things are and how we ought to live.  So what root metaphor(s) operate among…

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Etiquette for interfaith discussions, by Thalassa

Editor’s note:  In light of the conflagration ignited by last week’s post, a few words seem in order.  The fact that the piece had such reverberations throughout the Pagan community seems a sign that HP has grown, enough that we…

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Why do people want supernatural gods?, by M. J. Lee

I hate to admit it but I do feel some animosity toward hard polytheists. I feel as if they have stolen the gods (which of course belong neither to me nor to them, but to their own time and place)….

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