Libertarians and ‘free market’ advocates in general claim that markets reflect people’s decisions and values better than any other social institution, and so ‘freedom’ is maximized when markets are ‘unfettered.’ The New Scientist for May 24 has an important example … Read more
Category: Announcements
Taking the Initiative towards electoral reform: a vital role for Maine?
Private prisons as an example of the bankruptcy of libertarian ideology
Considering ‘Privilege’ White, Wiccan, and otherwise.
I have posted two more blog essays on the meaning of Pagan religion
The second tin the series is “What is Paganism? Part II: A Spiritual Taxonomy” which gives a more scholarly definition rooted in the basic story that unifies Pagan religion. It also explains when this kind of definition is … Read more
Who are we Pagans? And how can we tell?
Kent Nerburn’s “The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo”: magnificent at many levels
Kent Nerburn’s new The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky is a wonder. The final volume in a trilogy that is neither Western-style history nor fiction, it does what … Read more
Two articles on my new book (written by me).
The first is for Witches and Pagans, a name which explains the site, and so its focus is on a Pagan audience.
The second is for Patheos, an interfaith site, and again, the paper is focused … Read more