{"id":4879,"date":"2012-12-28T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2012-12-28T20:46:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T03:46:45","slug":"around-the-pagan-blogosphere-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4879","title":{"rendered":"Around the Pagan Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 I too am one who is uncomfortable with the word “faith” in Paganism because of the baggage that it carries. When I worked on a couple of collaborative projects with Evan John Jones, he sometimes spoke of the “Old Faith,” which always jarred me, even though I think that for him it was simply a synonym for “religion.” The Allergic Pagan” <\/em>starts with the same discomfort and ends up defining four styles of Paganism\/nature religion<\/a>, which might be useful categories.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sam Webster starts a new blog with an opening post: “Welcome Thinking Pagans<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 London blogger Ethan Doyle White has started a series of interviews at his blog <\/a>Albion Calling<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em>The first one was with British scholar of esotericism Dave Evans<\/a>. The newest one is with me.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 And have a look at my blogger sidebar. I try to keep all links up to date \u2014 if you encounter a dead link, let me know \u2014 and you do not have to give me money to be listed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 I too am one who is uncomfortable with the word “faith” in Paganism because of the baggage that it carries. When I worked on a couple of collaborative projects with Evan John Jones, he sometimes spoke of the “Old Faith,” which always jarred me, even though I think that for him it was simply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,3,5],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-blogging","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1gH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7724,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7724","url_meta":{"origin":4879,"position":0},"title":"Core Books in Pagan Studies","author":"Chas S. 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