No Choice

This makes me sick and angry. Anyone who feels like defending this can sod off.

I’m going to go get ready for a party I’m DJing at and try to put myself into a better mood. Sorry to litter my Paganism blog with straight politics, no chaser.

A Short Holiday

I’m taking off for a few days to celebrate the new year! Though if something too good to pass up comes along I may post anyway!

Quote of the Day

“The people who buttonhole me at parties and barbecues to talk about “The Da Vinci Code” usually can’t even remember the names of the novel’s two main characters or anything that happens to them. What entrances these readers is the possibility that a secret society has protected a religious and historical secret for almost 2,000 years, a secret that could undermine Christianity as we know it. “It really makes you think,” an earnest arts administrator told me last summer.” – Laura Miller, Salon.com

Shameless Plug

The latest issue of newWitch magazine is now out. Featuring my “A Darker Shade of Pagan” column.

Witchvox Round-Up

The Witches’ Voice essay series starts to tackle the idea of qualifications for a Pagan clergy with essays by Gary Penzler who gives an Asatru perspective, Gail Wood discusses the idea of clergy for the solitary practitioner, and Erin Aubry talks about how leadership is a ‘verb’.

Quote of the Day (III)

“Britain is well on the way to becoming post-Christian. There’s no question that the religious impulse is still alive ? the burgeoning interest in the supernatural and the occult is proof of that ? but Christianity as a public force has been almost completely marginalized.” – Clive Davis, Washington Times

Quote of the Day (II)

“It’s tempting to see this current obsession with the Ancient World as a function of our search for new pagan lights in a chaotic, darkened, post-Christian world in which Posh and Becks have replaced the Holy Family. Tempting, but probably mistaken. None of these films have any gods – except the celebs that star in them. Boys today don’t worship or want to be Alexander or Achilles _ they want to be Colin or Brad. Or their stylist.” – Mark Simpson, Belfast Telegraph

Quote of the Day

“The evangelicals say, ‘Here’s your cooking pot, television and radio, and all you have to give me is your soul and your cultural heritage,’ It’s a crime. It’s theft. And not just of the Huichols, of all humanity,” – Susana Valadez, an American anthropologist, San Antonio Express-News

Quote of the Day

“If Christianity borrows from neither paganism nor naturalistic mysticism, why is Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox? Sounds pretty pagan to me.” – Eric Richey, Miami Springs, The Miami Herald

Happy Holidays

A festive holiday to all. May you all experience peace, joy, and the love of family and friends this season. I’m taking the day off, see you all tomorrow. – Jason