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I’ve spent some time recently musing on what the nature of religion might be. There is a reactionary movement within paganism that challenges what is perceived to be the “cherry picking” “my truth” route that many pagan paths appear to have taken… a sort of post modern transcultural unorthodoxy… and this reactionary movement frequently raises [...] A blogger who’s posts I admire wrote what he called “sketch for a short story” a while back. In this story, a credible construction from an indo-european perspective of the sort of things that may have been practiced and believed by the original druids, although in and of itself wholely a work of fiction, the [...] I promised you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? A little background colour first. I grew up in social housing in a small market town called Olney during the 70′s. Back then it had a population of about 2 and a half thousand, and was situated in the heart of rural North Bucks, some 11 miles [...]
Whipsnade Tree Cathedral I recently attended our local Baptist church. I used to attend regularly (the minister and his family are spiritually very progressive and close friends), because my wife and daughter got something of importance to them out of it, and I enjoyed the warmth of the community. The reasons for not attending recently [...] Anyone who has read through my posts will know that I do not regard myself as a “theist”, so might be a bit puzzled as to why I entitle a post “The Nature of Gods” since, as I have no direct relationship (in a personal sense) with any Gods, anything I think and have to [...] I know I’m going to offend some with this post, but I’m going to ask you to consider being bigger than the offence taken, and just ask if I might have even half a point. I’ve not had much connection with my (albeit limited) experiences of pagan ritual. Don’t get me wrong, I love ritual… [...] |
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