Seminary memory, five years ago today (March 1, 2021)... ASSIGNMENT: One 5-minute sermon/message using a specific form. ME: Got it. ALSO ME: "Rise up from thy world into ours through the spinal channel into the insect brain with is our gateway to heaven."

// Almost all of us have religious experiences. Some are small and some are large; most are so fleeting we either don’t recognize them for what they are or we try cling to them long after they’ve past...// –John Beckett ("Know Your Theological Boundaries" Feb 2013) www.linkedin.com/posts/your-m...

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change. ∞ = Δ From “The Books of the Living” in Octavia Butler's PARABLE duology.

Looking forward to the virtual WinterMoot by The Troth this weekend. www.eventbrite.com/e/wintermoot...

"The African philosophy of ubuntu teaches that we are human only through the humanity of others. Buddhists of African descent explore the synergy between ubuntu and the Buddhist teachings on interdependence." LION'S ROAR (February 9, 2022): www.lionsroar.com/ubuntu-i-am-...

"Reclaiming Prayer as a Tool of Connection & Transformation" (February 12, 2026) www.patheos.com/blogs/esasva...

// Are Asian Folk Traditions “Pagan”? // by Benebell Wen (Feb 19, 2026): benebellwen.substack.com/p/are-asian-...

// Don't pray for me, I don′t need to be forgiven, Everybody goes to hell in somebody else's religion, We all want to have the answers, and we all want to go to heaven, But everybody goes to hell in somebody else′s religion Religion. //

My restrung Hrafn Antler Pendant. Purchased from Heksedans Arts back in Nov 2023. I broke the cord in 2024. Started restringing it in 2025, slowly adding beads from my collection. I finally finished it late in Jan 2026, and now I can wear it again! #handcrafted #raven #beads #pagan #heathen

THE SAGA OF BIORN (or, my alternate title, "Please Don't Give Me a Christian Funeral") vimeo.com/18011143 This bachelor film project was posted in 2011 (15 years ago!) by The Animation Workshop.

James Tynion IV wondered "...what the real Norse Odin would do with these idiots* if he had the chance." See what he came up with when ODIN #1 comes out this May from Image Comics / Tiny Onion. *white supremacists perverting Nordic spirituality. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Everyone's favorite Interfaith Heathen was called upon to bring Ash Wednesday to some patients and their family members during chaplain rounds this evening. #chaplain #AshWednesday #interfaith

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” I wonder... Are institutions frozen human spirit? Image: Photo of burning bush branches in ice, taken by me in my backyard, 2/13/2021.

Five Key Takeaways From PRRI’s New Survey on Political Violence in America. by Melissa Deckman (Feb 10, 2026) prri.substack.com/p/five-key-t...

Mímir and his well on the porch table. They briefly took refuge inside the house where they weathered the Jan 25 snowstorm. But now they have returned to their usual place, and I can once again commune with Mímir in my comings and goings.

International Clash Day / Know Your Rights! www.kexp.org/internationa...

A Buddhist Path of Poetic Atmospheres – Marcin Fabjański explores how sudden sensory perception and poetic attention can open unexpected pathways to joy, tranquility, and liberation... cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/02...

The Belonging Handbook: "Practical lessons for local communities on building belonging, bridging differences, and cultivating shared prosperity from peers who have walked the walk." www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/the-belongin... From the American Immigration Council

Twin Cities Pagans respond to ICE | By Eric O. Scott (February 2, 2026) wildhunt.org/2026/02/were...

The Wild Hunt reports on the latest initiative from the people behind #Project2025, and none of it bodes well for people concerned with pluralism, inclusion, and religious or even personal freedom. wildhunt.org/2026/01/proj... #Pagan #ReligiousFreedom #ChristianNationalism #HeritageFoundation

Butterfly wings, #magic, and fractal mathematics (panel from #Hellblazer Vol. 1 Issue 20). #comicBook #comics

Rune Spell for Protecting the Protectors by Angela Raincatcher (using her Well of Mimir Rune Cards) angelaraincatcher.substack.com/p/rune-spell...

Laura Tempest Zakroff: "A Sigil to Protect Protesters and Those Detained by ICE" www.patheos.com/blogs/tempes... #Sigil #Ice #ICEOUT #AbolishIce

“Do justice. Love kindness. Abolish ICE.” – Inspired by Rev. Rebecca Voelkel's sign when she spoke at the pulpit at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Thursday (Jan. 22, 2026).

"Firelight & Rune" by S.J. Tucker sjtucker.bandcamp.com/track/fireli... Tucker rarely accepts song commissions, but she did this time. And the commission came from a war veteran who also happens to be Trans.

Seems like a good day to mention Timothy Snyder's ON TYRANNY (2017) again for ... oh ... so many reasons. Snyder identifies "Do not obey in advance" as its first principle – a crucial observation about how democracies erode. timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny

Winter Star (snow on a pentagram decorated with evergreen branches).

MARCH (Multifaith Antiracism, Change & Healing): A call for clergy and faith leaders to meet January 22nd & 23rd in Minneapolis. More: www.marchminnesota.org

Remember: This is not a time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for. –Henry Rollins

"Pagan Interfaith Exchanges" by Helen Berger (a Research Reflection spotlighting the academic study of religions; posted December 03, 2025): cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/12...

I feel this deeply: "There's just a regular Joe with a million flaws and the power to make a difference, trying not to $%&e it up. Pretending to be the best version of himself without knowing what that is." [From The Flash Vol. 6 #25]

Trump’s lies, both big and small, have been corrosive to the foundations of civil society and democracy, which depend on a shared sense of reality. But the events of the first days of 2026 also show that they are deadly. They are literally killing us. www.whitetoolong.net/p/trumps-lie...

2026 Community Sigil by Laura Tempest Zakroff (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). For details, refer to LTZ’s January 1, 2026, blog post: www.patheos.com/blogs/tempes...

I was previously trying to decide between either THE LITERARY TAROT or THE BANNED BOOK TAROT for this year's monthly tarot pulls. Instead, I opted for neither of those, and am instead using The Zenned Out JOURNEY TAROT for 2026 (image from Amazon).

Are you telling me that the recipient of the inaugural (and not totally made up) FIFA Peace Prize used his country's military to invade another nation and kidnap their president? Yeah, that would track.

Emily Palmer has a new article in the New York Times about Pamela Colman Smith and her contributions to the tarot, specifically "her hand-painted illustrations for the world’s best-selling deck of tarot cards" (the Rider-Waite deck). Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

We're two days into 2026, and I still haven't decided on what tarot deck I'll use for my monthly preview card. Might continue using The Literary Tarot. But... I did purchase the Banned Books Tarot last year, so that's an option.

I braved the cold and wind in the local cemetery while waiting for the final sunset of 2025. Snow is in the forecast, so we're ending the Gregorian calendar with some dreary and solemn clouds. #OldYear #NewYear #NewYearsEve

On this New Year's Eve, I remind you: Yes, a new year feels like 365 brand new days, 365 brand new opportunities. But each day we awake is a blank slate, an entirely new and exciting gift. Take this latest calendar flip one day at a time. Make each one a masterpiece. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Before this season ends, I want to send you merry wishes from Mímir (and his well) looking all festive on my back porch. 📸 taken by me on December 24, 2025.

"It is three thousand light-years to the Vatican. Once, I believed that space could have no power over faith, just as I believed the heavens declared the glory of God’s handwork. Now I have seen that handiwork, and my faith is sorely troubled. I stare at the crucifix that hangs on the cabin wall...

Your Friendly Interfaith Heathen was a guest speaker at Pebble Hill Interfaith Church this morning. Prior to the start of their morning celebration, I made use of the empty space on the right hand side of the church's altar for a Yuletide candelabra (pictured).

What child is this With cape and "S" Whom Martha now is raising? With strength so great, and manner sweet And all around amazing This, this is the Boy of Steel Krypton’s last hope, our Earth to heal Up, up, and away he flies! Kal-El, the son of two worlds. (Madonna and Superboy?)

Is Santa Claus a myth? Santa is indeed a myth. But only in the original and not the corrupted, modern sense of the word. To those of us who know better, myth ≠ untrue. Myth is the truest, most important thing in the world.

Your Friendly Interfaith Heathen on chaplain duty this Christmas Eve at the Bethlehem Campus of St. Luke's University Health Network.

Badge reel broke right at the start of my first patient visit on this Christmas Eve shift. #chaplain

IT IS TIME! I'm working the 4pm-8pm chaplaincy shift this evening up in Bethlehem, PA, so I'm doing my annual watch of SCROOGE, the 1951 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol, right now! #Scrooge #AlastairSim #Movies #SacredStories

Once again, I reach late December, and I find myself wondering: Where are the inflatable Mithras nativity scenes? #WhatAboutMithras? #MithrasmasEveEve #ChristmasEveEve #MithrasErasure

SENECA AND JESUS (Daily Stoic Email; December 25, 2020) In the very same year as Jesus, in another far-flung province of Rome, another boy was born. Seneca, who would go on to be an equally great and influential philosopher,... Read more: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Have you heard of Turoń, Poland’s Dancing Winter Bull? www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tur... Image: Illustration of Turon with carolers in snowy landscape, by Tao Tao Holmes for Atlas Obscura.