Praise Mama. Grok Earth. Thou art Goddess.
This past September, Sam Young was excommunicated by the Mormon church. Young, a former Mormon bishop, had publicly criticized the Mormon church’s practice of asking minors sexually explicit questions in interviews with bishops. Young even went on a 23-day hunger strike to draw attention to the issue.
The Mormon church’s response?
Excommunication. Continue reading “Excommunications Show that the Mormon Church Really Doesn’t Get Jesus”
In spite of having left Christianity behind 17 years ago, I found myself at another Easter service this year.
I’ve been Pagan for about 15 years, but in recent years I have been drawn back to Easter and Christmas services … but not for the reasons you might think. It not because many of my friends and family are Christian. And it’s not because of any residual or resurgent Christianity on my part.
It’s because of the Pagan-ness of these holidays.
Continue reading “Pagan Reflections on Another Easter Passed”
My seasonal allergies mean that at those times of the year I most want to be surrounded by nature, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to do so. This irony is a metaphor for an essential conflict at the core of my psyche, between the desire for communion with nature on the one hand and the desire to transcend nature on the other.
The Allergic Pagan 