Starhawk

Starhawk

Co-founder, Reclaiming

"On Faith" panelist Starhawk is a prominent voice in modern Wiccan spirituality and cofounder of Reclaiming (www.reclaiming.org), an activist branch of modern Pagan religion. She is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979) --considered an essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement--and the novel The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) . Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Japanese, and Burmese. Many of Starhawk's political essays were collected into her book Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising . Her newest book is The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature . Starhawk has also recorded several tapes and CDs; most recently Wicca for Beginners (2002), Wiccan Rituals and Blessings (2003), and a four-CD set Earth Magic (2006), all produced by Sounds True. She consulted on and contributed to three films known as the Women's Spirituality series, directed by Donna Read for the National Film Board of Canada: Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle . Committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism, Starhawk travels internationally teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. Close.

Starhawk

Co-founder, Reclaiming

"On Faith" panelist Starhawk is a prominent voice in modern Wiccan spirituality and cofounder of Reclaiming (www.reclaiming.org), an activist branch of modern Pagan religion. She is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979) --considered an essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement--and the novel The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) . more »

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June 3, 2007 7:36 PM

Starhawk's Summer Schedule

Starhawk’s Summer Schedule—June-August

The Short Version:

Friday, June 8
Louisville, Kentucky
pre-conference workshop: "Earth as Teacher, Earth as Healer"

Friday-Sunday, June 8-10
Louisville, Kentucky
Earth Spirit Rising Conference: "Return to Earth Wisdom"

Friday-Monday, June 29- July 2
Ontario, Canada
weekend workshop: "Explore Earth Spirit and Earth Justice with Starhawk."

July 14-29
Asheville, North Carolina
two-week intensive: Earth Activist Training

August 12-18
Oregon
one-week intensive: Free Activist Witchcamp

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June 5, 2007 7:19 AM

Faith During Wartime

How do I keep my faith during wartime? I’m not sure how I’d keep my faith if my country were invaded, my family slaughtered, my home bombed or my loved ones rounded up and sent to concentration camps—I can only imagine.

But I do know how I struggle to keep my faith—and my sanity—during a war that my country is waging, one that I have done everything I could think of to prevent and to end, one which has lost support of the vast majority of the American people, and one which is still, every day, taking the lives of Iraquis and our own soldiers, squandering the resources we need for health and justice in this country, and leaving a swathe of destruction in the Middle East.

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June 21, 2007 8:24 AM

No Morality in Continuing an Immoral War

The U.S. left the track of morality when we invaded Iraq.

Our thin excuse of ‘pre-emptive’ war fell apart when no weapons of mass destruction were found. We abdicated any possible claims to morality at Abu Ghraib. In more than four years of war, we have yet to establish order or basic security—at the price of hundreds of thousands of lives, including uncounted Iraqi civilians and children and more than three thousand of our own soldiers.

In good faith, our young men and women put their lives on the line for policies they were told would benefit our country. Yet in the U.S., the war has starved our resources for every nurturing, caring function of government—from effective response to emergencies like Katrina to even providing adequate counseling and aftercare for our own returning servicemen and women.

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