In modern spiritual practices, anger is more often than not seen as an affliction—something to be healed, avoided, or even feared. But I am of the mind that anger and rage have a rightful place in magical settings. Anger has its role in magic just as much as love, healing, and all the so-called “lighter”…
Spirituality
Eron Vito Mazza on Sacred Queerness
As a queer person who grew up in deep red rural Oklahoma, I was bombarded with the notion that my feelings and my existence were wrong. I was taught to be ashamed of my body and the pleasure it was built for. Whether it was by a sermon telling me I deserved death, or society…
Silence and Solitude: The Two Lost Spiritual Gifts
By Eron Vito Mazza In a world that is hyper-connected, noisy, and bearing down on us at all times, I wonder if we even remember what silence sounds like. Solitude is sometimes seen as a luxury or as a punishment. Being separated from the class as a child, prisoners being separated from society behind bars…
The Alchemy of Intention: Turning Thoughts into Reality
By Eron Vito Mazza What if I told you, on a certain level, we can create the world around us? Would you say I had gone crazy to think we had such control over some of the circumstances that occur in our lives? Well, I guess I have gone off the deep end, because we…
Matters of the Divine: Bishop Deon Johnson’s Open Invitation to Dream Big
If you find yourself in a conversation with Deon Johnson that veers toward matters of the divine, don’t expect declaring yourself “not really religious” to provide an exit route. “You can have a profound experience standing in your backyard watching your chickens,” Johnson says. In an era of DIY spirituality, the sentiment isn’t particularly unusual.…
From Seminary to Coven: The Journey of Brother Zeeke
“I like these crackers,” said my roommate Zeeke Harris, 36, while happily munching on a multigrain wafer in the kitchen. “I give them as an offering to the spirits I work with. Ancient Greeks used to offer the first grains of the harvest.” Living with a witch is interesting. At 25, Zeeke left Dallas Theological…
Carrying a Community: the Journey of Pastor Tori Jameson
Pastor Tori Jameson’s life had long been trending toward their unique place as a pastoral care provider for the queer and kink communities. But it was physically carrying a dead woman’s children during a march in her memory that brought Jameson’s life’s mission into sharp focus. Jameson was serving at the church that did the…
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