Paganism

Column: In Praise of Child-Rearing

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Then, almost all of a sudden, the convulsions become overwhelming and a nurse helps place my wife in a sitting position, before telling her to push. It is all fused in my memory as a short and intense blurb, but it actually took a good half an hour before, from under my wife, a small, mostly hairless mammal appeared. The nurse grabbed it, showed it to me, shouted “it’s a girl!” before depositing it onto my wife’s chest.

We had just become parents. I had just become a dad.

What the actual f–k?

Paganism

Column: The Viking Age as a Model of Diversity

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A recent genetic study of Viking Age individuals reveals that, far from being “pure Scandinavian,” the Vikings embraced a diverse array of peoples into their culture. Karl Seigfried argues for contemporary Heathens to emulate this diversity in the modern religion.

Paganism

Column: Follow Your Arrow

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North American Paganism is being slowly choked by exceptionalism.  There, I said it. If you’d like to skip ahead and scream at me now, just scroll down to “comments” and say what you need to say. First, let’s talk about the Lord of the Rings. Of all the characters who inhabited Middle Earth, there were but a handful who could potentially subjugate the ring. As a reminder, the ring was enjoined with the spirit of Sauron, the most powerful servant of evil. He is both the master of the ring and the spirit to which the ring wants to return.