In response to a couple of recent abuse cases, some Pagans are working to make a "Pagans against sexual abuse" statement, either for the media or for the internal Pagan community or both. Background info is available at The Wild Hunt blog.

Author Brendan Myers volunteered to host the discussion and created a subforum for related topics. The ( Read more... )

I apologize for the lack of explicitly pagan context in this. It's topical for me, personally: When I dance, it is always spiritual. Others may disagree, and if our moderators decide this is not appropriate here, I already have a copy of it. ;-)

Some disclosure about intent: During chasingtides' recent thread, I had the thought that "cultural" is a ( Read more... )

I received some very negative reactions to my criticisms of the article, How to Herd Cats: Essays on Pagan Leadership, Becoming a Leader, both in public communities and private journals. My stance was simply this: you can’t declare yourself a leader. Leadership requires earned respect -- something that, to me, seems rather blatantly left out of ( Read more... )

Let's say that a person has wronged you in some way. You believe that it was an unjust act. You are pursuing your various legal options for remedy, but you want to do more. You want to have justice done, and balance restored, by initiating a magical act against the person responsible for harming you.

Do you? Should you?

The local radio station where I live did a poll today about defending your religion, and if you thought it was okay to commit suicide bombing in defense of your religion. I thought about that today, and as far as my (admittedly limited knowledge) one of the few truly martial religions I am aware of would be the Asatru (Troth) and from what I know ( Read more... )

Greetings ( Read more... )

This question is regarding the purchase of antiquities for spiritual purposes - essentially, how do you all feel about it ( Read more... )

Questions: What actions qualify to publicly name someone an "oath breaker" or "warlock"? And what does one consider correct public rules of engagement with said individual after naming them "oath breaker" or "warlock"?

Brought up by discussion elsewhere, and also my pondering on the full moon ritual I was at tonight ( Read more... )