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A more interesting idea of goodness
My wife teaches a class once a month at her Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) congregation. She teaches the women’s group called the Relief Society. Each month she is assigned to give a lesson on the subject...
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People Who Inspire Me — Part One (Deceased)
Each of the individuals below is someone whose writings have has a profound influence on me, but who also are people who I admire because of their biography as well. 1. John Trevor (1855-1930) John...
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Tradition, Rootedness, and Freedom
Tradition, tradition! Tradition! Tradition, tradition! Tradition! Who, day and night, must scramble for a living, Feed a wife and children, say his daily prayers? And who has the right, as master of...
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Confessions of a solipsist
“Solipsism” is a word I learned in college. It refers to the belief that only one’s own mind is real. Everything external to one’s mind is like a dream. The word is also an epithet used to describe...
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“One needful thing”, Part 1: What’s missing from Unitarianism
This is a mutli-part series. In this part, I discuss the history of Unitarianism, including the Transcendentalist revolt, the humanist revolution, and the search for a language of reverence. A few...
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I’m making it up
Where you’ve nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. – Cormac McCarthy, The Road I’ve never been good at tradition. But going it alone, I have found, has its pitfalls...
View ArticleA more interesting idea of goodness
My wife teaches a class once a month at her Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) congregation. She teaches the women’s group called the Relief Society. Each month she is assigned to give a lesson on the subject...
View ArticlePeople Who Inspire Me — Part One (Deceased)
Each of the individuals below is someone whose writings have has a profound influence on me, but who also are people who I admire because of their biography as well. 1. John Trevor (1855-1930) The...
View ArticleTradition, Rootedness, and Freedom
Tradition, tradition! Tradition! Tradition, tradition! Tradition! Who, day and night, must scramble for a living, Feed a wife and children, say his daily prayers? And who has the right, as master of...
View ArticleConfessions of a solipsist
“Solipsism” is a word I learned in college. It refers to the belief that only one’s own mind is real. Everything external to one’s mind is like a dream. The word is also an epithet used to describe...
View Article“One needful thing”, Part 1: What’s missing from Unitarianism
This is a mutli-part series. In this part, I discuss the history of Unitarianism, including the Transcendentalist revolt, the humanist revolution, and the search for a language of reverence. A few...
View ArticleI’m making it up
Where you’ve nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. – Cormac McCarthy, The Road I’ve never been good at tradition. But going it alone, I have found, has its pitfalls...
View ArticleThe center cannot hold: UPG as a centrifugal force
Personal gnosis is always potentially threatening to community. In order for a community like Paganism to survive, it must find a way to integrate personal gnosis with the communal identity.
View ArticleRoots of the Deep Ecology Tree: The Transcendentalists, “An Original Relation...
The Transcendentalists believed that studying nature was a way to comprehend the divine, another idea which found its way into contemporary Neo-Paganism. In response to the religious traditionalism of...
View ArticleFruits of the Deep Ecology Tree: Wilderness and Rewilding
Neo-Paganism is a nature religion which, like other nature religions, perceives nature as both sacred and interconnected. From this perspective, humans in the developed world have become tragically...
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