Taking a suggestion from the now-defunct (but excellent and accessible) Sponde: Hands-On Hellenism website, I decided to put together a personal calendar for prayer and worship. The idea was really to just get started and dive in, rather than to agonize over just the right way to set it all up. I can [...]
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My Prayer Calendar
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Beauty, Family, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Liturgy, God, Marriage, Prayer, War, Belief, Paganism, Reconstructionism, Odin, Gods, Mythology, Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hellenic Polytheism, Dionysus, Zeus, Apollo, Hera, Hercules, Aphrodite, Goddess, Sex, Neopaganism, Greek Mythology, Venus, Ares, National Guard, Army, Myth, Procrastination, Worship, Sacrifice, Ritual, Bacchus, Dionysos, Military, Hermes, Sunday, Greek Myth, Apollon, Juno, Mars, Artemis, Diana, Infantry, Jupiter, Pan, Theoi, Interfaith Marriage, Home, Jove, Herakles, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Mercury, Norse Polytheism, Hestia, Vesta, Faunus, Wilderness, Wild, Hiking on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Worship And The Pagan Gods
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Christianity, Church, God, Goddess, Gods, Greco-Roman Polytheism, Greek Mythology, Heavenly Father, Hellenic Polytheism, Holy Ghost, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Kharis, Mormonism, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Neopagan, Neopaganism, Pagan, Paganism, Polytheism, Religion, Spirituality, Worship on September 7, 2009 | 21 Comments »
I was a faithful Mormon for nearly three decades, and while I definitely busied myself spiritually, and tried to be close to Heavenly Father, I never actually wanted to worship him. Worship in Mormonism is problematic anyway: in my experience Mormonism is much more about trying to experience certain things, trying to feel the Holy [...]
Why It Matters Whether Mormons Are Christian
Posted in Religion, Uncategorized, tagged 2008 Presidential Campaign, Belief, Bible, Blogging, Catholicism, Christianity, Church, Conservative Christianity, Conversion, Description, Discrimination, Dishonesty, Evangelicalism, Evil, Faith, Fear, Framing, God, History, Interfaith Dialogue, Jehovah's Witness, Jesus Christ, Latter-day Saints, LDS, Lutheran, Missionary Work, Mitt Romney, Mormonism, Persecution, Politics, Presidential Campaign, Protestant, Protestantism, Public Relations, Reading, Religion, Religious Discrimination, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism, Salvation, Semantics, Slander, Sociology, Soteriology, Southern Baptist, Teaching, Theology, Truth on August 19, 2009 | 13 Comments »
The question of whether Mormons can be considered Christian is fairly central to interfaith dialogue, and is significant enough to have garnered national attention during the 2008 presidential campaign. It comes up every now and then on Tim’s most excellent blog, and as an ex-Mormon non-Christian who is nevertheless widely read and confident in [...]
I’m Bananas For Dionysus
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Bacchus, Bananas, Christianity, Dionysus, Evolution, Fruit, God, Gods, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Kirk Cameron, Male, Male Sexuality, Mythology, Paganism, Penis, Phallic Symbol, Phallus, Polytheism, Ray Comfort, Ritual, Sex, Sexuality, Symbolism, Vegetation, Wine on July 30, 2009 | 13 Comments »
It occured to me today that, although I assume they were unknown to the ancient Greeks, bananas are probably the perfect ritual food for Dionysus.
Fruit in general is appropriate because Dionysus is a god of vegetation, fertility, and growing things, and fruit is not only literally the product of Dionysus’s realm, but it is also [...]
Prayers I Have Written
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Alcohol, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Bacchus, Battle, Beer, Book of Common Prayer, Brewing, C. S. Lewis, Candle, Ceisiwr Serith, Children, Christianity, Courage, Cronos, Dionysus, Divinity, Ecstasy, Endurance, Family, Giants, Gigantes, Gigantomachy, God, Goddess, Goddesses, Gods, Greek Mythology, Happiness, Heartache, Heartbreak, Heavenly Father, Hellenic Polytheism, Hera, Incense, Inspiration, Joy, Juno, Love, Lovemaking, Loyalty, Lust, Marksmanship, Mars, Mormonism, Motherhood, Neo-Paganism, Neopaganism, Paganism, Pantheon, Passion, Polytheism, Power, Prayer, Religion, Saturn, Sex, Soldiers, Spirit, Spirituality, Strength, Titanomachy, Titans, Uranus, Venus, Victory, War, Will, Willpower, Wine, Worship, Zeus on June 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One of the books I have been perusing lately is Ceisiwr Serith’s A Book Of Pagan Prayer. While I admit that the prayers themselves don’t really light my candle, the book is absolutely fantastic as a book about prayer: why we pray, to whom we should pray, how we pray, and so on. [...]
Why Special Names?
Posted in Religion, tagged Arabic, Buddhism, Christianity, Endowment, Hare Krishna, ISKCON, Islam, LARP, Mormonism, Neo-Paganism, Neopaganism, Religion, Spirituality, Temple, Zen on April 17, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I have noticed that the use of special or religious names is pretty common among Neopagans. I am honestly curious as to why someone needs to call themself “Moonferret Starshine” or something Welsh or whatever instead of just using their real name. I’m not talking about internet handles or nicknames–those are a part [...]
Once Again, Mormonism And Easter
Posted in Religion, tagged Atonement, Christianity, Easter, Fasting, Holidays, Holy Week, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Liturgy, Mormonism, Music, Prayer, Religion, Sacrament Meeting on April 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Once again this year I am baffled by how big of a deal Mormons do not make out of Easter. It’s a total non-holiday, while by contrast in most of the rest of the Christian world it is the high point in the liturgical (or even semi-liturgical or not liturgical at all!) year. [...]
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