Guest Post: Pagan Ministry and Outreach with Rev. Fox
I am very excited to share this guest post from Rev. Fox! The Rev and I came to know each other over Twitter, and a recent post I made about the module on ethics in the Community Ministry Certificate I am pursuing lead to a conversation about how he approaches ethics in his prison ministry. After having the chance to see some of the materials he created and discussing his approach to ministry I asked if he would do me the honor of writing a guest post for my blog. And here it is!
Guest Post: ‘Who Do I Say I Am?’ Sermon by Shige Sakurai
The below sermon was delivered by Shige Sakurai (they/them) during the Sunday, March 27th, service at All Souls Unitarian Universalist congregation in Washington, DC. The theme of the service was “Who Do I Say I Am?”
Guest Post: Queer Ancestor Spotlight - Denis Rake
I’m excited to share my first guest Queer Ancestor Spotlight. Boudica spent time researching an amazing and almost unbelievable character from World War 2 history, Denis Rake. I hope you enjoy this deep dive into the colorful and exciting life of a British spy.
Guest Post: Cultivating Hope - Lessons From Our Fungal Elders
I am excited to share another guest post from my dear friend and go-to resource for bioregional witchcraft, Doozy. For context, this guest post was written on the day the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case was announced.
Guest Post: I Know My Value Ritual
I’m very excited to share another guest post from my friend Boudica! Y’all might remember a previous ritual she shared to America’s forgotten goddess, Columbia. This time she shares a ritual to reaffirm and reclaim your value that is inspired by the MCU’s Agent Carter. I hope you enjoy this pop culture ritual!
Guest Post: Cultivating Hope
I’m excited to again share a guest post from Doozy! In this post Doozy reflects on the necessity of hope in the world. She writes about things we might take for granted or not appreciate, our interconnectedness with the seen and unseen world around us, and the hope those things can provide when things look bleak or we are exhausted by everything happening. She talks about her view on hope as an important magic that takes conscious effort but can transform the world.
Guest Post: Reimagining Our Relationships With Divine Entities
I’m very excited to share this guest post with you. The below essay centers Doozy’s lived experience with an autoimmune disorder and how it informs her relationship to her own body as a way of critically examining relationship-building and power dynamics within establish cosmologies. It dives into the reciprocal relationship between deity and devotee and asks us to deconstruct the idea of “worship” in a way that acknowledges the way both ends of the relationship interact with and depend on one another.
Guest Post: Hail Columbia! A Ritual To Call Upon America’s Overlooked Goddess
The government is filled with corrupt officials who have actively betrayed their oaths of office in pursuit of power, bringing active harm to my communities and many others. Suffice to say, my magical political activism needed to up it’s game, and I was trying to determine who to call in for aid. Calling upon the Founding Fathers is just a little too patriarchal for my taste. Calling upon the Spirit of America kept summoning images of the Old West, which was not what I was going for. Maybe Lady Liberty? That was closer, but it felt like something was missing. Then the name Columbia came up. You know of Columbia, right? The Goddess of America? Or, more accurately, the Forgotten Goddess of America. Lady Liberty, who is more familiar to most of us these days, is Her daughter.
Guest Post: Recipe for the Resistance - A Lemon Rosemary Cake to Fuel Your Activism
With the intense escalations happening this week as a result of the terrorism of the police state, I found myself in need of some fuel for resistance. Eyeing this recipe for some time anyway, I decided it was time to give it a go!
Kitchen witches assemble!