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... )

Hi folks,

I read the article over on The Wild Hunt blog about Buffy the Vampire-Slayer inspiring UK women to leave the church and turn to Wicca.In the list of reasons why women aren't going to church in the University of Derby press release on this, I noted that under the heading "Family Diversity", the article notes that "singleness" is a growing ( Read more... )

Where do you see paganism--and the pagan community--in twenty years? What current trends (though not necessarily *trendiness*) do you think are worth watching in the years to come?

I came across this lovely piece by pnukkles on glbt_pagan and thought my fellow NFPers might enjoy ( Read more... )

A lot of the time I think about the problems the "pagan community" has, for those that get involved it has many. The "fluff" factor is of course one, we try and keep it down, or at least keep it behind the back door, and as many good media and press attention we get, the next week we get something that dampens our moods about how the world views us ( Read more... )

There have been quite a few recent discussions on dot_pagan_snark and NFP about various types of credibility: research, evidence, and source citation in particular. It’s a sore topic for me, really gets my fur up, so I want to toss it out for discussion. ( clicky clicky )

What an insightful article...Geek Social Fallacies. It could be titled "Why you have had problems in every social group you're ever been in." It doesn't just apply to geeks... this is every social circle I've participated in over the past ten years. Most of them have failed, or I've dropped out. Sometimes it was my own fault, sometimes it was the ( Read more... )

I went to my first public Wiccan ritual in years the other day.  To protect the innocent, I'm not naming people, places and/or what was done.  It was quite intense and emotional, and a lot of good work came out of it.  The problem I had was a participant who I found to be grating.  They seemed nice, but quite the drama queen trying to upstage ( Read more... )

Over on The Witches Voice, Sia wrote in an excellent article on dysfunctional behavior in the Pagan community:

Ah... but are we a community in the real sense of that word? The definition of a community is a group that involves "friendly association, mutual support, commitment, and dedication to a cause,ideal, or effort." It is not something we "do ( Read more... )

For several years I have been intrigued by the degree to which some segments of the modern pagan movement in the United States appear fascinated with the concepts of “elders” and “elderhood.”  Given the wide disparity of beliefs and practices within the pagan community in the US, the general lack of organization above the level of the local worship ( Read more... )