Musings of a Quaker Witch (Pagan Quaker)

Earlier this week, Jason Pitzl-Waters posted a warning to Facebook about a Facebook group called Blackraven Coven, whose creator and main ...

Don't do it.   And if it happens to you, talk about it.  

Victoria Janssen pointed this out to me, and I was impressed by both the research and the analysis.  My intent in this project was to examin...

Day and night are in balance; Fall Equinox is the door to the dark time of the year. This is the second harvest festival. What are we stor...

I've agreed to give a talk and discussion on Feminist Witchcraft at an upcoming Pagan Pride Day .  So, what should I talk about?  Pagan ...

When the video first broke of a certain DE Senate candidate supposedly admitting back in the 90s that she'd "dabbled into Witchcraf...

A friend of mine passed this article on to me: City Critic - Commitment, the Best a Lesbian Couple Could Do - NYTimes.com It hit home, kind ...

From the Washington Post, " Jim Wallis on the story behind pastor Terry Jones' change of heart " is an informative and inspira...

There's been some buzz recently about the Pagan Newswire Collective .  What is that, you ask? The Pagan Newswire Collective is an open c...

Friends Journal has two upcoming special issues: "Pendle Hill After 80 Years" (June/July 2011) and "The Ministry of Quaker Wo...

Speaking of other facets of my ministry: music .  And one aspect of my music ministry is that every year since 1997, I've been part of a...

(This is the full text of a post previously published as three separate posts . - sm) I've had a piece of writing brewing for a looon...

(continued from part II: Pagan Friends and Pagan Quakerism ) Pagan Quakerism? So, we've talked about whether or not I, by myself, br...

(continued from part I ) Sweeping Pagan Friends and discrimination against Pagan Friends under the Meetinghouse rug No one has actuall...

I've had a piece of writing brewing for a looong time -- for more than two years, when I go back and look at scraps and drafts of thing...

This started out as a comment on someone else's blog, but then I realized it ought to be a short post on my own blog:   I often hear peo...

I'm having several conversations right now in different electronic fora (Merriam-Webster does say the plural of forum is fora ) about h...

I have been mulling over similar topics recently...   Oftentimes I have read Christian Friends' comments regarding the frustration of M...

According to Friends Committee on National Legislation, here are some ways to support American Muslims right now:   FCNL: We Stand with Amer...

American Muslims are having a rough time of it right now.  To say the least.  Domestic terrorism against American Muslims spiked after Septe...