Executive Pagan

I know everybody (including Jason and Chas) has already posted about this, but the coincidence(?) of two series of columns about Hellenism and Druidry appearing back-to-back

OBOD’s Mt. Haemus lectures. Each year OBOD grants an award for original research. Papers by Ronald Hutton, John Michael Greer, and others.
Gus DiZerega - “Nature Religion and the Modern World: The Returning Relevance of Pagan Spirituality“. By the author of Pagans and Christians: the Personal Spiritual Experience.
Brandy Williams - “On Pagan Speakers: the State [...]

You know the Bible 100%!

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!
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The next post is taking longer than I expected… particularly since I just found out Slade tagged me for his Money meme, and so now I’m thinking about that as well.
So in the interim, I’ll take the cheap way out and ask everybody to tell me about what they’re reading, and why.

In “Why Hellenism?“, I mentioned in passing that we joined ADF (Ár nDraíocht Féin) in 2001. I was already moving towards Hellenism at that point, but had not fully arrived; I had been peripherally aware of modern Druidry for a while, but had always viewed it as part of the “Celtic thing” and so had [...]

Yvonne at the PaganTheologies wiki site asked me to work up the “Truth vs. Fact” series into an article, and I have done so. The slightly reworked version can be seen here:http://pagantheologies.pbwiki.com/Truth-vs-Fact

I was going to do thought-piece type responses to several current blog posts, but I just don’t have time right now… so let me at least give you the pointers so you can catch all this goodness for yourselves.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. - Robert Green Ingersoll

This is the post that people seem to be waiting for… so here it is, finally.
…In 2000 I stumbled across the Reconstructionist Religions forum on Beliefnet, and discovered Hellenism. (A short while later we also joined ADF, but that can wait for the next post because it doesn’t impact what I’m writing here.)
At [...]

Non-Hellenic and general pagan
Ludmila Zeman: Gilgamesh the King, The Revenge of Ishtar and The Last Quest of GilgameshI can’t say enough about these books - they’re just amazing. Ms. Zeman did extensive research into ancient Babylonian art; when she sent a draft of the first volume to the British Museum to have it checked for [...]