Executive Pagan

This is kind of a warm-up post for something I’m planning for next week… more to come then. In the meantime, here are some of my favorite devotional moments in cinema - I’d love to hear about yours!

The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address [...]

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Hundreds of essays from the period of greatest flourishing of that nearly lost art.

And borrowing phrases! The title of this post is borrowed from Mam Adar over at Urban Druid. She has a very nice post on the appeal of Shinto (and Tibetan Buddhism) to a Western seeker, and a lot of what she says in the Shinto section applies to me as well, pretty much directly… but [...]

From those wonderful Athena groupies at Bryn Mawr… here’s a recording of the hymn, and the lyrics (with translation, reproduced below).

I don’t have time to work on my own posts right now, but I’ve got one brewing on Shinto and Hellenism that I hope to post over the weekend, as well as one on systems theory and process theology (more inspiring than it sounds!). In the meantime, this is one of those weeks when greatness [...]

I am in the middle of a fantastic book on a subject near and dear to my heart (and hands!) - the spiritual dimension of craft. The book is Grain of Truth: the Ancient Lessons of Craft, by Ross A. Laird, and it is possibly one of the best books I have ever read [...]

This post has been percolating in the back of my mind for a few days, but I’ve been too busy with the crises-from-Hel at work to even think about blogging… and now I find once again that I’m really just another self-expression of the pagan-blogging egregore, Inanna and Sara (among others) both having written [...]

(NOTE: This post is adapted from a sermon I delivered to my UU church in 2003.)
Thalia, Pierian Muse, daughter of Zeus – you whose love is laughter, and whose favorite sacrifice is a merry heart – be with me now and sing through me.

This was going to be multiple posts, until I realized that I can’t separate the concepts enough to discuss them in isolation… and this will probably not be the last word on the topic, as I can already tell I’m not going to get all my thoughts out in this little space.