I came across a pretty cool essay on Jim Morrison and Dionysus, and the pagan spiritual implications of Morrison’s life, music, philosophy, and his unique and fascinating madness. It gets a little closer to what I was trying to write a few days ago about the Lizard King. With all due respect and [...]
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The Lizard King Can Do Anything
Posted in Music, Spirituality, tagged Alcohol, Aldous Huxley, Bacchae, Bacchus, Catharsis, Chaos, Church, Classic Rock, Cult, Danny Sugerman, Delia Morgan, Dionysian, Dionysos, Dionysus, Drama, Ecstasy, Elvis, Elvis Presley, Entheogen, Euripides, God, Gods, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hero, James George Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Jim Morrison, Magic, Music, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Neopaganism, Nietzche, Olympus, Paganism, Pan, Paris, Patricia Kennealy, Persephone, Philosophy, Polytheism, Proserpine, Ray Manzarek, Religion, Ritual, Rock, Rock and Roll, Sacrifice, Shaman, Shamanism, Shrine, Snakes, Spirituality, Symbolism, The Bacchae, The Doors, The Golden Bough, Theater, Theatre, TV, Violence, Vision, Wicca, Wine, Worship on September 15, 2009 | 1 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 Roman Catholicism, Evil, Dishonesty, Blogging, Religion, Mormonism, Evangelicalism, Christianity, Bible, Politics, God, Theology, Church, History, Conversion, Protestantism, Jesus Christ, Latter-day Saints, LDS, Faith, Reading, Teaching, Belief, Truth, Fear, Soteriology, Salvation, Jehovah's Witness, Semantics, Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Missionary Work, Public Relations, Persecution, Interfaith Dialogue, Description, Sociology, Protestant, Conservative Christianity, Slander, Lutheran, Southern Baptist, Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism, Framing, Presidential Campaign, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Mitt Romney 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 [...]
My Feet Relentlessly Attack The Pavement
Posted in Poetry, tagged Athletics, Church, Color, Dionysus, Guitar, Jim Morrison, Music, Nature, Percussion, Poetry, Reptiles, Running, Sex, Snakes, Spring, The Doors on April 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My feet relentlessly attack the pavement
And my aching knees stab in savage dissent.
The cerulean sky is languid, indulgent,
And the early spring air is soft and cool–
Much easier to breathe than the thin, winter cold.
A drum beat–a metronome–pours into my ears.
I struggle to keep up.
Suddenly, the acrid fanfare of the guitar cries
Like the peal of a [...]
Concerned About Christmas
Posted in Spirituality, tagged Childhood, Chriatmas, Christianity, Church, Commercialism, Faith, Family, Holiday, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Light, Memory, Music, Religion, Sacred, Spirituality, Television, Time, TV on December 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I absolutely love Christmas. I love the music, the decorations, the cookies, the shopping, the presents, the smiles, and the colored lights. The commercialism of Christmas just doesn’t bother me. It’s fun, and its only once a year (commercialism the rest of the year bothers me).
I can remember each Christmas distinctly going back to when [...]
Narrowing Down The Issues
Posted in Religion, tagged AODA, Architecture, Asatru, Atonement, Belief, Bhagavad Gita, Brahman, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Christmas, Church, Clergy, Cults, Culture, Druidry, Episcopalianism, Europe, God, Hinduism, Ideas, Incarnation, India, Indo-European, Jesus Christ, Liturgy, Morality, Mormonism, Music, Mythology, Nature, Priesthood, Religion, Resurrection, Seminary, Sin, Society, Soka Gakkai, Spirituality, Theology, Tradition, Truth, Upanishads, Values, Vedanta on December 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
On the one hand, I’m sure it looks like I’m going ’round and ’round in circles with God and religion, retreading the same ground and getting nowhere. Sometimes I wonder if that is in fact what is going on, and if I can ever be satisfied and happy. Most of the time, though, [...]
An Interesting Turning Point?
Posted in Religion, tagged Christianity, Church, Commitment, conversation, Conversion, Creeds, Culture, Deconversion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Episcopal Church, Episcopalianism, Greek Orthodoxy, Marriage, Mormonism, Protestantism, Reformation, Religion, Rent, schism, Spirituality, Subway, Theology, Work on July 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I had an interesting conversation on the subway ride home the other day (actually it wasn’t on the way home; it was on the way to have dinner and see Rent with my beautiful wife for our seventh wedding anniversary, which is another story). A colleague of mine was on the same train–he’s an interesting [...]
Something I Have Noticed
Posted in Religion, tagged Apologetics, Argument, Christianity, Church, Internet, Mormonism, New Reigious Movements, Polemics, Religion on July 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It seems to me that almost every argument I have seen involving Mormonism (where one of the participants is Mormon and the other is not), either online or in the real world, and including arguments I have been party to on both sides of the issue, has essentially boiled down to the non-Mormon party making [...]
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