Today, I preached from the canonical gospels at my local church. I preached the story of Mary Magdalene... the Anointing Woman. I think it went fairly well, although I think it may STILL have been a little high on the academic side. They want to invite me back, though ( Read more... )

By Candlelight: Celebratory Ritual
This is a REALLY good article on what they would call around here "Worship Theory". I studied Worship Theory all last semester, but it was in a Protestant context. This is in a Pagan context ( Read more... )

I found this cute little Samhain video. I know all the "facts" are not historically correct, and I know they spelled "wich's" wrong, but it is still a nice little video to explain Samhain to outsiders and newbies.

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I have been reading this fascinating book called Worship in Ancient Israel: An Essential Guide by Walter Brueggermann. Of course, this book was written for an intended audience of Protestant seminarians and clergy, but I'm finding it very helpful as a Pagan as well.

We, as humans, tend to be very Us/Them when it comes to religion. We very often ( Read more... )