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Pagan Woman Kicked Out of Christian Homeless Shelter
Idaho CBS affiliate KIDK reports on a woman who claims she and her 17-month-old son were booted from a non-denominational Christian half-way house when she refused to discard her Pagan jewelry and...
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Alley Valkyrie and The Magic of Activism
The (in)famous occultist Aleister Crowley once explained his theory on magic, “Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will,” by noting that the act of writing a...
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A Pagan-Led Organization Advocating for the Homeless in Oregon
I’ve written before about my friend Alley Valkyrie, a Feri initiate and Witch who runs a small local gift and clothing business in my town called Practical Rabbit, and who has become a central activist...
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Beliefs into Action in the City that Never Sleeps
My phone buzzed around 1:15 in the morning, a text message from an unfamiliar number. “The cops just woke us up and they are arresting us for sleeping,” the message said. “Where are you?” I texted...
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Patterns, Histories, and Tendencies of Place
“The Parks Department may not want me here, but this land tells me otherwise.” We were standing on the north bank of the Willamette River, where I had come down to check up on a friend who had lived on...
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Between Two Worlds
Throughout the 1930’s, Hoovervilles dotted the landscape of the Willamette Valley, just as they did throughout most of this country. The Great Depression sparked a wave of homelessness throughout the...
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Reflections on Service, Theology, Oppression, and Love
I was just about to get on my bike when I looked in the basket and saw the note. “When you’re done finding Jesus, come by the shop and say hi.” It made me laugh, and yet it also immediately brought me...
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Compassion, Transformation, and the Power of Community
“I’m in a lot of pain right now,” Daisy said to me quietly. I wasn’t sure exactly what type of pain she was referring to at that moment. For as long as I have known Daisy, which is going on six years...
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Column: The Perseverance of Memory
I. The Silence (December 2013) It was the last city council meeting of the year on a frigid, snowy evening two weeks before Christmas, and the immediate future of the Whoville encampment was on the...
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Honor for the unhoused in San Jose
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Last month saw the second annual memorial to people who had died homeless in this city, located 42mi southeast of San Francisco. Among the participants in this interfaith event was...
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