I do not often dream, but sometimes, the results are hilarious. This is what I'd classify as a "nightmare," but in the light of day, it's not so scary, at all. But it is funny. The dream begins in media res, at a rite at Wellspring where all ADF's clergy were reciting the oath they take at ordination in order to renew their credentials (which is, ( Read more... )

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Things I have learned, having a pregnant wife:

1) It is so rarely about you, or your family. ( Read more... )

At Summerland last weekend, I had the privilege of having two friends put me through a rite of passage that was, in many ways, just kinda perfect ( Read more... )

Given everything going on over the last few weeks (key item: both Maggie and I had computer crashes at the same time in early April, so we had no reliably working machines in the house), I've been lacking in some of my online social stuff recently. I did, however, have some time at the shop to write a few prayers and put together some little easy- ( Read more... )

There is not much that is difficult about being a Priest: most of the time, it's a bit of studying, or a baby blessing, or a wedding. It's mostly things that bring you joy and memories you treasure ( Read more... )

Over the last few years, I've been watching as ADF waxes and wanes in membership numbers, but never really gets anywhere new. We're mired in a lot of things, and in many ways we seem to be spinning our tires. Brave new ideas like Teo Bishop's SDF can't really get off the ground, and even though it's been successful for the first few months, no one ( Read more... )

Nearly eight years ago, I sat in romandruid's living room across from a guy who had done a silly thing: he'd read the ADF Preceptor's quarterly report and decided to volunteer for a job in ADF! I'll be honest, I thought that those reports that romandruid had been writing were going out into the ether and just being ignored by everyone. How fortunately wrong I was ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of working through the last of the notes so I can ship a summary to the ADF Clergy list about what went down and who got volunteered for what at last weekend's retreat, but one particular thing that my notes never can capture is the remarkable number of side conversations we have as Priests about Our Druidry, and the fellowship ( Read more... )

The last month or so has been interesting, to say the least. I've been dealing with a large number of items at work, some good (yay, raise!) and some bad (boo, software audit!), but generally life is good there ( Read more... )