Archive for March, 2007

These are some of the best pagan-oriented children’s books that we’ve found. There are many, many retellings of individual myths, of course, but some care needs to be taken in choosing just the right volume. When judging a book I haven’t seen before, I usually start at the beginning - far too many mythology story [...]

Why Polytheism?

And… we’re off. This is not going to be a lecture (this blog is about my spirituality, not just spirituality in general :), but for the benefit of any non-pagans reading this I need to lay a little groundwork.
There is a wide spectrum of opinion in the pagan/polytheist community regarding the nature of the Gods. [...]

… while I try to find the time to write the big posts (life is catching up to me at the moment). Right now, it looks like “Why Hellenism” will actually be a 4-part series: “Why Polytheism”, “Why Hellenism”, “Why Druidry” and “How the heck do you fit those two together?!?”.
In the meantime, here are [...]

A “commonplace book” is basically a collection of the bits of wisdom, inspiration, etc that one comes across in the course of living. Lots of bloggers have them; now I do too.
Today’s entry:I do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; I seek the things they sought. - Basho Matsuo

WordPress has apparently decided I am no longer worthy to post to your “Because I’m Skeptical” thread… I have tried to post this since yesterday evening:
http://tinyurl.com/267sq3
That link leads to a very interesting lecture by Amy-Jill Levine, a Conservative Jewish professor of NT at Vanderbilt. Free to watch. In the context of this discussion, I am [...]