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Teo Bishop
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Teo Bishop is the author of the blog, Bishop In The Grove, and an emerging voice in the Pagan Community. Teo is an active member of Ár nDraiocht Fein (ADF), an independent tradition of Neopagan Druidism, and the organizer of the Solitary Druid Fellowship. The Fellowship creates "congregation in solitude" by providing liturgies for the eight high days of the Pagan calendar.

Teo sees the writing he does online as a kind of ministry, in that it encourages us to look inward, and to be contemplative. His writing is a means of processing through the complicated geography of modern Paganism, and it is also an invitation for others to express their voices, their ideas, and their experiences of what it means to be Pagan, polytheist, or something altogether different from our currently defined identities.

Teo sees the writing he does online as a kind of ministry, in that it encourages us to look inward, and to be contemplative. His writing is a means of processing through the complicated geography of modern Paganism, and it is also an invitation for others to express their voices, their ideas, and their experiences of what it means to be Pagan, polytheist, or something altogether other from our currently defined identities. Teo's work centers on the meaning and enactment of ritual in personal and public ceremony, on the place of creativity and personal expression in Pagan traditions, and on the integration of mind (critical thinking) with heart (intuitive knowing).

Teo is also a musician, songwriter, and performer under the name Matt Morris (see this post for more information).

Follow Teo on Twitter (@TeoBishop) or at TeoBishop.com.

Blog Entries by Teo Bishop

Beltane 2013: The Great Poetry of Flesh

(64) Comments | Posted April 30, 2013 | 1:28 PM

Beltane comes, and I feel a stirring in my body.

Beltane comes, and I feel a fire in my gut.

Beltane comes, and I want to turn up the music, put on something colorful (or take it all off) and roll around on a patch of green.

Beltane is, for...

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Spring Equinox 2013: May You Be Like the Sun

(186) Comments | Posted March 20, 2013 | 8:08 AM

There is a reason that on Imbolc, the February High Day, we place such an emphasis on light and fire. When we say I keep vigil to the fire in my heart, we are acknowledging the real and present challenges of winter, as well as the feelings of...

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Imbolc 2013: A Faith Made Of Fire

(143) Comments | Posted January 31, 2013 | 3:42 PM

I come to this place between winter and spring with a certain, acute exhaustion. To endure this cold, to tend the hearth of my creative work, my professional life, and my religious endeavors, seems hardest at this time of year.

I look out the window of my writing room, which...

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Yule: Be the Light of the Returning Sun

(65) Comments | Posted December 20, 2012 | 10:11 AM

I am having a hard time preparing for Yule.

It isn't for lack of trying. It isn't because I haven't been engaged in my religious life. In fact, the opposite it true.

For the better part of the past few months, I've been building the Solitary Druid...

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Samhain: May The Silence Open Your Heart

(64) Comments | Posted October 30, 2012 | 5:00 PM

It is Samhain, the end of summer, the third and final Pagan harvest festival, and the beginning of a period known to many as "The Waiting Time."

Now is a time to lay down your tools, the symbols of your productivity, and light a fire to honor not only what...

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Trans Is A Teacher for All Of Us

(12) Comments | Posted October 11, 2012 | 8:51 AM

First published at author's Patheos.com blog, Bishop In The Grove.

It snowed last night. First of the season. There wasn't quite enough to break the branches like last year, but it was enough to remind us that the season of fall, as much as I'd prefer it last...

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Autumn Equinox: May You Pray With A Good Fire

(101) Comments | Posted September 21, 2012 | 11:32 AM

Today we celebrate the Autumn Equinox.

Now is the time to shore up your practice of harvesting the light.

Now is the time to stand before your home shrine, the altars which you have made, and practice rekindling the sun inside your heart.

For in the coming months, the...

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Isaac Was a Hurricane, Not the Manifest Judgement of an Angry Deity

(7) Comments | Posted August 30, 2012 | 2:24 PM

Even as a religious person who, himself, makes offerings on occasion to deities associated with the sea, I favor a scientific explanation for weather phenomenon. Most Pagans are thoroughly modern in this way. As well, I find this desire to pin responsibility for Hurricane Isaac onto a god, most popularly the...

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Make Bread for Your Table, Make Bread for Your Gods

(14) Comments | Posted August 1, 2012 | 1:07 PM

It was the sound of the masa moving back and forth across my grandma's hands that woke me in the mornings. She slapped the dough in rhythm before turning the flattened ball onto the dusted counter-top, and then she rolled out another tortilla and placed it on the hot puela.

There was no...

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Every Conceivable Jesus: A Review of "Jesus Through Pagan Eyes"

(44) Comments | Posted June 26, 2012 | 1:19 PM

I won't say I was in love with Jesus, but I will admit that I miss him sometimes.

Jesus was the dropped pin on my Google Map; the marker which showed me where I was in relation to everything else. Jesus was central to my religiosity in the way...

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How Do We Talk About Paganism?

(260) Comments | Posted June 2, 2012 | 1:52 AM

I had a dream last night that I was trying to explain my Paganism to my father. He was patient, and open, and he behaved in the ideal ways that only a dream-father behaves. As I explained to him what Druid meant in a modern context, our relationship exploded into...

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