Under the Ancient Oaks

This will be my last post here.  Starting Monday, January 21, 2013, "Under the Ancient Oaks" joins the Patheos Pagan channel.  The...

Here’s a link to an article from The Wall Street Journal titled “ A California Drought: Not Enough Children .” It points out California’s ...

Yesterday I started a blog post on the most recent internet dustup over the label “Pagan.” I got a page into it before I decided I didn’t...

David Dashifen Kees had an excellent question in response to my last post on Sam Webster’s call to rebuild the cult of the gods: What ab...

The wonderful folks of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel now have the audio files from the two panel discussions at Between the Worlds a...

Fellow OBOD Druid Dana Driscoll has a nice piece on her blog on the hows and whys of creating altars. It’s quite good and has some inter...

There is something seductive about the beginning of a new Gregorian year. The New Year’s Eve countdown, the changing of the calendar, and t...

sheep grazing at Avebury The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries is a survey of encounters with faeries, banshees, corrigans and other vari...

photo from Wikimedia Commons If you write about religion beyond the level of platitudes, people are going to disagree with you. You can...

Last night's Denton CUUPS Winter Solstice ritual was everything I had hoped it would be:  a good turnout, lots of participation, the pr...