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Spirituality: Current Columns
- I write the column "Over the Bridge: Further Explorations" for SageWoman magazine. Launched in 1999, this column focuses on the needs of intermediate practitioners in any Earth-based belief system. It picks up where my earlier column "Into the Green: Where to Begin" left off. Previous topics include teamwork, learning the ropes, and secondary tools. If you have been studying nature religions or women's spirituality for one to five years, look here for tips on deepening your practice. Back issues of the magazine are available from the publisher.
- I write the column "First Impressions" for PanGaia magazine as part of my job as Managing Editor. This column will begin with the Autumn 2000 "Media Magic" issue. Here I share some of my thoughts with the readers, touching on my own experiences and sometimes the issue's focus topic. Current plans call for reprinting this column in a special section of the PanGaia Website rather than here.
Spirituality: Previous Columns
- I wrote the column "Into the Green: Where to Begin" for SageWoman magazine. This column ran 15 installments from its opening in 1995 to its close in 1999, appearing in issues #32-46. It enjoyed a thriving audience throughout its run; the publisher and I decided to conclude it because I had covered all the basics, so the final installment set the stage for my new intermediate column "Over the Bridge: Further Explorations." During its run, "Into the Green" focused on the needs of novices, spiritual explorers, and curious onlookers. Featured topics included basic skills, magical and spiritual tools, a comparison of popular traditions, initiation, privacy vs. disclosure, holidays, the science of magic, ethics, the Elements, networking, assembling a reference library, and selecting special skills. If you are new to the study of nature religions or women's spirituality, look here for useful information spelled out in a clear, friendly tone. Although the column has closed, you can still access much of the information contained therein. Back issues of the magazine are available from the publisher - just click on the title above. I have also condensed the installments into the "Pagan/Gaian 101" piece which appears on the PanGaia Website. Finally, I am expanding the column into a book called Into the Green: A Beginner's Guide to Pagan Pathways, a proposal for which is currently making the rounds of suitable publishing houses. If you are a publisher and this sounds intriguing, by all means contact me!
- I wrote the column "Culture Pulse" for the quarterly magazine Moonbeams Journal. This column began with the premiere issue in 1997 and continued until the magazine closed in 1998. During its brief but lively career, it covered the evolution of the contemporary Pagan community and related issues. Featured topics included included cultic practices, professional Pagan clergy, the Pagan community online, money and magic, Pagan families, and Pagan customs of death and burial. All installments of "Culture Pulse" will appear on this Website eventually.
- I wrote the column "Reviews from Hypatia's Hoard" for the general Pagan newsletter PagaNet News and later for the Pagan family newsletter LunaSol. These periodicals are distributed free in various stores, most of them in the eastern United States but with a few scattered elsewhere. You can also buy a subscription and have either newspaper delivered through the mail. They come out eight times a year, in connection with the eight Sabbats; each issue combines some seasonal material plus a special theme with related contributions. Sometimes I matched my reviews to the season or theme, and I always did a special "Midwinter Extravaganza" to help with the winter holiday shopping season. "Reviews from Hypatia's Hoard" appeared in PagaNet News from 1996 to 2000, and in LunaSol from its premier issue in 1998 to 2000. While highly popular - the column once rated as the second-favorite part of PagaNet News in a reader survey - it was also rather time-consuming since I wrote four to seven reviews for each issue, and different ones for the two newspapers. Thus, due to time constraints and contractual obligations, I closed "Reviews from Hypatia's Hoard" in 2000. However, the Hypatia's Hoard reviewing service itself continues apace, I still write some freelance reviews, and I am currently handling most reviews (writing some myself, assigning others to a circle of regular reviewers, and handling whatever comes in over the transom) for both SageWoman and PanGaia magazines. Some reviews from this column may eventually appear on this Website, but that's not a high-priority project.
Art on this page is from the "Whiteflower" set, at Winter's Pages.
The URL for this page is http://www.worthlink.net/~ysabet/spirit/column.html and it was last updated on July 5, 2000 by Trevor Edwards.
