Whether in healing or transforming, inspiring or creating, we focus so much on stories like the Hero’s Journey, on battling our pain, on efforting our way into being. What would it be like to soften? To make the space in which virtue may happen- a space we might call Grace*?
ADF is an orthopraxic organization, which means that we focus on shared practice instead of shared beliefs. However, as part of our Dedicant Program, we ask members to explore and define nine virtues and the …..
The recommendations for what I’ve suggested here as practices are not to make those interested follow a strict set of rules (though they can if they choose to) but to give them a starting point to inspire them to move forward from this practice into their own way of doing things. No, it doesn’t have to be ‘Hebridean’ as I’ve termed this example or Norse/Germanic or any flavor of Celtic. What matters is your practice speaks to you; that your Ancestors and the other spiritual powers work with you in a harmonious fashion What is important, regardless your practice is that you be sincere in your actions, have integrity, be patient, and do your best to be consistent with all of them. The Ancestors are watching after all… make them proud!
ADF is an orthopraxic organization, which means that we focus on shared practice instead of shared beliefs. However, as part of our Dedicant Program, we ask members to explore and define nine virtues and the …..
This simple working calls upon the light and warmth of Sacred Fire to keep the place through the weirdness of a Total Solar Eclipse.
by Rev. Caryn MacLuan, originally read during a Cedarlight Grove Sunday morning service. I’ve recently started reading a book called “Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author” by Sophus Helle. It’s about a …..
ADF is an orthopraxic organization, which means that we focus on shared practice instead of shared beliefs. However, as part of our Dedicant Program, we ask members to explore and define nine virtues and the …..
by William J. Hartman, winner of the ADF 40th Anniversary Short Story Contest In the Harz Mountains of Germany there lies a hidden dell, up in those mist-shrouded trees. A place that cannot be found …..
ADF is an orthopraxic organization, which means that we focus on shared practice instead of shared beliefs. However, as part of our Dedicant Program, we ask members to explore and define nine virtues and the …..
Your sanctuary is the place that serves as a temple, it can be inside your home or outside. It is possible to have a sanctuary for Freya if you worship her, no matter your pagan path.