Podcasts by Druids In Cars, Going To Festivals

Episode 123 - Moving On, Retirement, and Other Life Changes in Paganism from 2023-11-23T00:01

While headed home from a Dedicant Oath rite, we started talking about what it was like to move on from our current roles in modern Paganism, whether those moves were due to life changes, vocatio...

Episode 122 - When Deities are Jerks from 2023-11-16T00:01

Today, on the way out to a Dedicant Oath Rite, Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler travel with Mike Bierschenk on the way out to State College, and chat on a topic we've been meaning to get to for a wh...

Episode 121 - 3CG Ancestor Box Traditions from 2023-11-02T00:01

Happy Samhain, friends!

One of the great traditions we have as a Grove is that we keep an Ancestor Box. This is a simple box that has been with us for 20 years now, receiving new ancestor...

Episode 120 - Harvest Nights 2023 Festival Review from 2023-10-26T00:01

On our way out to a Druid Moon rite, we took a moment to chat about a festival Rev. Avende had been to recently: Harvest Nights! Long one ...

Episode 119 - The Role of the Bard from 2023-10-12T00:01

Today, Rev. Avende and our Grove Bard, Mike Bierschenk, travel out to Harvest Nights and bring you along in the car with them, as they discuss the role of the Bard in Three Cranes Grove, ADF, an...

Episode 118 - How We Do Magic For Others from 2023-10-05T00:01

We continue our conversation from our previous episode with how we do magic for others: how we decide what sort of magical work to do, who to do it for or with, and how we divide out our magic b...

Episode 117- Sympathy and Contagion; Magic as Access from 2023-09-28T00:01

After Summerland, we're back! Today, we talk about sympathy and contagion in magic: the idea that things that are alike can provide access to each other, either through being alike or containing...

Episode 116 - Dublin Irish Festival Druid Sunday Service Prep and Recap from 2023-08-17T00:01

Today, we're off to Summerland, and we hope you will be too! We're looking forward to more new content with new friends there!

Last we...

Episode 115 - Managing the Magical: The Working from 2023-08-10T00:01

The Summerland Festival is next week, August 17-20, 2023, near Yellow Springs, Ohio! As of publication, you can still register!

This w...

Episode 114 - Managing the Magical: The Return Flow from 2023-08-03T00:01

Have you registered for the Summerland Festival August 17-20, 2023, near Yellow Springs, Ohio? You should! Come meet us!

This week is ...

Episode 113- Managing the Magical: Taking Omens from 2023-07-27T00:01

Have you registered for the Summerland Festival August 17-20, 2023, near Yellow Springs, Ohio? You should! Come meet us!

This week is ...

Episode 112- Managing the Magical: Opening the Gates from 2023-07-20T07:09:26

We're a month out from Summerland! Consider coming out to the Summerland Festival August 17-20, 2023, in near Yellow Springs, Ohio!

Th...

Episode 111 - Managing the Magical: (Re)Creating the Cosmos from 2023-07-13T00:01

Important Announcement! The Trillium Spring Gathering is back in 2024! Some more details in the episode, but check out the website, and join us ea...

Episode 110 - Appalachian Summer Solstice Review 2023 from 2023-06-29T00:01

Today, Rev. Avende reviews their experience at the Wisteria Appalachian Summer Solstice festival in southeastern Ohio. They discuss their ...

Episode 109 - Wellspring Review 2023 - Crossover with Crone’s Porch Podcast! from 2023-06-22T00:01

A couple of weeks ago, we got to record with friends old and new in the barn at the close of the Wellspring Gathering, 2023. To our great deli...

Episode 108 - Our Weirdest Druid Tools from 2023-06-15T00:01

We set a record for how fast Rev. Dangler can break Rev. Avende's composure on this episode! But the topic was a great one, where we got to speak about unconventional tools and challenge how we ...

Episode 107 - Can I Just ”Show Up” to Paganism? from 2023-06-08T00:01

A listener question today comes in, asking, "Is there a place for me if I just want to 'show up' to ritual?" And of course, our answer will surprise nobody.

We talk a bit about what it me...

Episode 106 - Burnout and Pagan Leadership from 2023-06-01T00:01

"Good leaders spread everything, from wealth to work."

Talking about the commitments we make as clergy and leaders in our work, we turned on the recorder so others could sit in. We spoke ...

S6 Bonus Episode 1 - Roadside Divinatory Attractions from 2023-05-25T00:01

We're on our way to the Wellspring Gathering this week and working hard on getting new content, so you get a bonus episode! This week, it's al...

Episode 105: Goal-Oriented Ritual Planning from 2023-05-19T09:05:20

On our way to the Three Cranes Grove, ADF, annual liturgical planning meeting, Rev. Dangler hit Rev. Avende with a random question when they got in the...

Episode 104 - A Sacred Travel Trip Review from 2023-05-11T00:01

Last week we talked about how Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler were trying to plan out a trip to Greece; this week, we circle back to the trip that Rev. Dangler and his wife took, and how they manag...

Episode 103 - Planning Sacred Travel to Greece from 2023-05-04T00:01

Early last year, Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler discussed the process of planning a trip in the not-too-distant future to Greece to tour some sacred sites. During the chat, they also talked about ...

Episode 102 - Rites of Passage and Community Connections from 2023-04-27T00:01

When we think about rites of passage, we usually think about how they impact the person who experiences the passage directly, rather than the community around them. In this episode, we talk a bi...

Episode 101 - Advice To Our Younger Pagan Selves from 2023-04-20T00:01

We're back for Season 6!

At our Anagantios Druid Moon in 2022, we recorded this episode about the advice we would give to ourselves when we were our younger Pagan selves. It turns out our...

Episode 100 - Rites of Passage at our 100th Episode! from 2022-08-11T00:01

One of the things about recording a podcast is that you find yourself passing milestones on the journey, and today, we managed to get in our 100th episode! We talk a bit about how rites of passa...

Episode 99 - Finding Joy In Ritual and Druidry from 2022-07-07T00:01

Druidry is not drudgery, and there is an element of joy to all of the work that we do with and for others.

We speak of Rev. Dangler's initiatory experience, where joy was gifted to him as...

Episode 98 - Druidry and Our Work from 2022-06-30T00:01

Today we're talking about what Druidry is, and discuss the impacts of using the word "Druid" as ADF members. Spoiler alert: Rev. Avende hates it.

We talk about the terms we could use inst...

Episode 97 - Finding Nature In Our Nature Religion from 2022-06-23T00:01

How do you find nature to put in your nature religion? We look at both the mundane and the spiritual aspects everyone has access to, consider that ancient Pagans didn't find a deep issue with la...

Episode 96 - Working in Unfamiliar Hearth Cultures from 2022-06-16T00:01

Because of the way that ADF is structured as a pan-Indo-European organization, it's entirely possible to come to ritual at your local Grove and experience ritual in a culture you're unfamiliar w...

Episode 95 - Managing Imposter Syndrome from 2022-06-09T00:01

Have you ever felt that you were in over your head with this whole ritual-and-magic thing? Do you feel like an "imposter" about to be found out? We all have, but it can seem like it's a lonely p...

Episode 94 - A Wellspring 2022 Review from 2022-06-02T00:01

On the way home from Wellspring, though they were not driving together, Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler stopped at a rest stop and caught up to remember the event. Held each Memorial Day weekend in...

Episode 93 - Gesture and Posture in Ritual from 2022-05-26T00:01

Today we're chatting about the things we do with our hands and bodies during ritual, focusing on gesture and posture in particular, and how we've developed them for use in our personal and Grove...

Episode 92 - Making Group Rituals Work from 2022-05-19T00:01

Today, we talk about how we've made group ritual work, including some tips about both online rituals and in-person rituals. We've had a lot of different strategies over the past 20 years here in...

Episode 91 - Pets and Their Place in our Practice from 2022-05-12T00:01

CW: This episode discusses pet loss and grief surrounding it.

One of the strange things about owning pets is that they become an integral part of our lives, our practice, and the spaces w...

Episode 90 - Travel Practice from 2022-05-05T00:01

Today we're chatting about our portable altars, and what we take with us when we head out on the road (or even when we're just out and about close to home).

We discuss the physical things...

Episode 89 - Our Silliest Ritual Work from 2022-04-28T00:00

Today, we're taking a look at the (most intentionally) silly rituals we've done. We cover a lot of ground, and there are a lot of links worth looking at here to give you an idea of what we're ta...

Episode 88 - Virtual vs. In-Person Festivals; or, ”How Good It Is To Be Back!” from 2022-04-21T00:01

We've eased back into the festival season by attending the Harvest Nights Gathering in late 2021, and it's worth talking about how good it...

Episode 87 - How We Prepare Our Festival Workshops from 2022-04-14T00:01

We're back, and we think the festival season is too!

Our first episode was recorded at the end of last year's (super short) festival season, on our way out to Listen

Episode 82 - Kindling Sparks: An Interview With Rev. Avende from 2021-08-26T00:01

Did you know that one of our co-hosts, Rev. Avende, has published a children's education book? They did! It's called Summ...

Episode 80 - Travel Spirits, Stopovers, and the Spirit of Couch Surfing from 2021-07-21T22:28:32

We sit down to discuss the sorts of things we seek out when we travel: the weird religious sites, the haunted tunnels, and the wonderful hospitality of our friends.

And, of course, there'...

Episode 79 - Spirituality and Religion from 2021-07-15T12:17:04

Today, we took a listener question from an OBOD listener who wanted to know our take on the differences between spirituality and religion. We start with some dictionary definitions and work our ...

Episode 78 - Orthodoxy, Orthopraxy, and Orthoskhesis from 2021-07-01T00:01

Today, we get a new vocabulary word in "orthoskhesis," a word meaning "right relationship" (versus "right belief" with orthodoxy, or "right practice" with orthopraxy). We talk a bit about how we...

Episode 77 -The Sensory Experience of Ritual from 2021-06-24T00:01

Two weeks ago, in Episode 75 (s4Ep8), we spoke a bit about the sensory experiences of our work as i...

Episode 76 - Retaining Sanity and Practice In a Pandemic from 2021-06-17T00:00:59

Today, we take a special break and do a special trip suggested by one of our listeners, and we talk about how we retained our sanity and practice in a global pandemic. There's a lot of chat abou...

Episode 75 - Drawing Out the Voice of the Folk from 2021-06-03T09:28:31

We took a week off and (virtually) attended Wellspring last weekend, and we had a good time. But we're back!

Learn the secret of the Stoles of the Priests of ADF, and why we do the weird ...

Episode 74 - Comfort, Creativity, and Comebacks from 2021-05-20T00:01

We answer some reader mail this week, discussing how we find comfort in the work we do, seek creativity, and come back around to the ways that we worked before the pandemic.

How do we man...

Episode 73 - Building Connections from 2021-05-12T23:34:19

Today, we talk about our connections to the natural world, to each other, and to the Spirits. We talk about how we build these sorts of relationships, as well as first fruit offerings, and build...

Episode 72 - Healing Deities and Spirits from 2021-05-06T00:01

Today we take another walk through the woods and speak about healing spirits and deities: how we connect with them, how we experience them, and what it's like to reach out to one.

We refe...

Episode 71 - Liminal Spaces from 2021-04-28T20:08

Liminal spaces are points or areas that are "betwixt and between" states. On foot today, we wandered past a bog, and it got us thinking about the sorts of places we've encountered that were "in ...

Episode 70 - Hybrid Experimentation: A Pandemic Ritual Recovery from 2021-04-22T00:01

This past weekend, Three Cranes Grove, ADF, took our first steps toward reopening our public ritual practice: we conducted a small, semi-private hybrid ...

Episode 69 - Ritual Preparation from 2021-04-15T11:14:02

How do we start preparing for ritual, in both physical and spiritual ways? How is it different for us when we do group ritual and persona ritual? How can we simplify it and make it easier to get...

Episode 68 - The Flame in the Snow from 2021-03-19T10:22:47

Season 4 is upon us! While there aren't festivals to go to (yet), we're planning and plotting for our coming season. At our Grove's annual Anagantios (Stay-At-Home Moon) rite, Revs. Dangler and ...

Episode 67 - Season 3 Finale: Our Pandemic Year from 2020-10-08T00:41:53

It's been a year, hasn't it?

We reflect on the past year of not being in cars, and pretty much not going to festivals, and talk about our content, where we've been, and where we're going....

Episode 66 - Multifaith Families, Teaching Our Kids, and Growing Our Families from 2020-09-17T20:29:11

At Harvest Nights 2019, Rev. Avende sat down with Rev. Pezza, offering a window into some household practices including kids, and the impact of multifaith relationships on how we raise our kids....

Episode 65 - Let's Talk About Trance (a slaphappy chat) from 2020-09-03T22:44:02

What is "Orange?"

Sometime after midnight, on the dark roads of Ohio in October 2019 returning from the Harvest Nights Gathering, w...

Episode 64 - Our Reasons For Priesting from 2020-08-27T05:44:13

Revs. Avende and Dangler talk about their experiences of being priests in a variety of ways, focu...

Episode 63 - Patrons Part 2: Patrons, and How To End a Relationship from 2020-08-20T00:01

Continuing on from last week's discussion, we talk about what it's like to end a relation...

Episode 62 - Patrons Part 1: Patrons, and How To Find Them from 2020-08-13T00:14:43

Summerland 2020 is here! We're still in a socially distant world that doesn't let us come together in person for festivals, but you should know that Summerland is THIS WEEKEND, August 14-15, 202...

Episode 61 - Refill the Cup, Rekindle the Flame from 2020-08-06T00:01

"You cannot serve from an empty cup," and "A buried wick gives no light." Today we talk about how we manage burnout, and how we learn to recharge. It's a short conversation, but an important one...

Episode 60 - Honoring Your Unknown Ancestors from 2020-07-30T00:01

Updated Episode! There was some sort of error with the original upload: we've replaced the file and the file works now!

How do you honor ancestors you never met, and never heard ...

Episode 59 - The Hearth Keeper's Way from 2020-07-24T10:58:13

Last year, ADF introduced a new program for learning and building a Druidic practice at your hearth, called The Hearth Keeper's Way. Rev....

Episode 58 - We Need an Old Priest and a New Priest from 2020-07-16T00:01

There's a lot of difference in how different priests experience priesting. We talk about what we've learned from each other, how we interact as co-priests in a Grove, and how we build our work b...

Episode 57 - Falling Off the Study Horse from 2020-07-09T22:53:31

We all fall off the horse from time to time, especially when it comes to study and the "homework" portion of our "religion with homework."

Today, we talk about how we get back onto the pa...

Episode 56 - Sliding Into Your DMs (as Priests) from 2020-06-25T00:03:55

Priesting has a lot of strange things, and today we're going to talk about how we slide into your DMs ("direct messages") as Priests. Weird as that may sound, a large part of our work is built a...

Episode 55 - Encouraging Consent Culture from 2020-06-18T00:13:39

How do you build positive cultures within a working group? We talk a bit about how Three Cranes Grove, ADF, builds consent culture. We also talk a bit a...

Episode 54 - Synthesizing Experience and Lore from 2020-06-11T00:22:15

How do you navigate your personal experiences and the lore of ancient Pagans? We'll explore the interplay of ancient lore and unverified personal gnosis (also called "UPG").

We talk a bit...

Episode 53 - Prayer In Times Of Fear from 2020-06-04T00:01

Today, we're not in cars or headed to a festival, but we're walking together in the woods, socially distanced, and discussing how we pray in a time of fear. There's a lot going on in the world t...

S3 Bonus Meditations 03 - A Walk In The Woods from 2020-06-02T00:01

Today, we took a walk in the woods, and we wanted to invite you along. Join us for this entirely unscripted, shared meditation.

We needed our centers today, and we know you do too, so we ...

Episode 52 - You Are Pagan Enough from 2020-05-28T00:01

This episode is all about finding the ways that your work is enough. We talk about the process of comparing your work to the work of others, what it's like to redefine "doing enough" in your own...

S3 Bonus Meditation 02 - City Senses, Nature Awareness from 2020-05-26T00:09:34

City Senses, Nature Awareness Meditation – A meditation for becoming aware of nature, either indoors or outdoors, either in or out of the city. This is especially well-suited to times when it is...

Episode 51 - We Do ONE Stupid Dawn Rite, And... from 2020-05-21T00:01

It's true, we did just one stupid dawn rite at Harvest Nights, and here we are, waking up a dawn again, like ya do.

Occasionally, we're asked at festivals to run a dawn ritual, and we lov...

S3 Bonus Meditation 01 - A Hearth Keeper's Two Powers from 2020-05-19T00:01

One of the things that Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler have been talking about (not in cars, not going to fes...

Episode 50 - Marking the Seasons, Marking Time from 2020-05-14T00:01

We all experience the same seasons and the same cycles, but we perceive them in different ways: markers are personal, special, and different depending on how we interact with those cycles and se...

Episode 49 - Seeking Truth in Vision, Dreams, and Divination from 2020-05-06T23:01

What happens when your vision or your divination doesn't come to pass?

There are a lot of things that happen in our Vision Eye, and oracles of cards and runes or of strange earthly perfum...

Episode 48 - Piety and Magical Work - Theurgy from 2020-04-29T23:01

Theurgy! We discuss how our piety and our magical work intersect, and how the relationships we build deepen and build our work. We talk a bit about the differences between Theurgy and Thaumaturgy, ...

Episode 47 - Tools, Their Uses, and How We Work With Them from 2020-04-21T23:03

Do you need to have tools to do our work? What kinds of tools should you have? What kinds of tools have we always heard we'd need, and never found a use for?   We discuss making tools, trading tool...

Episode 46 - Funerals&Death Experiences from 2020-04-15T23:01

Another content warning this week, where we talk about the process of working funerals, including some discussion of funerals for pets, children, and miscarriages. It's not the bulk of the episo...

Episode 45 - Weddings: Scripting&Stories from 2020-04-08T23:01

First, a quick warning: we know a lot of folks have had to postpone weddings in our current situation; this episode is very much about the joy of creating, planning, and working weddings, so we ...

Episode 44 - How Do I Pagan Better? from 2020-04-01T23:01

There are lots of things that we can all do to improve our work. Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler tackle some of their own internal critiques and bounce ideas off of each other. They discuss what th...

Episode 43 - Season 3 Intro: An Essential Mission from 2020-03-31T23:01

You may have heard by now that most of the early season festivals have been cancelled, including the Trillium Gathering, where we usually start ou...

S2 Bonus Episode 3 - A Festival Code of Conduct - Beginnings from 2020-01-24T19:45:58

If you've never been to a festival, it's the time of year to start planning your season out. Whether you make it to just one festival, or you make it to a bunch like we do, it's good to know wha...

S2 Bonus Episode 2 - 360 Video and Tech In Ritual from 2019-12-18T23:01

What is it about talking about technology in ritual that makes us do weird things? I dunno, but come and (literally) ride along with us this time!

While we're usually audio-only, on our w...

S2 Bonus Episode 1 - Initiateness vs. Clergyness from 2019-12-12T20:42:49

Here's a slightly special bonus feature: you can watch the conversation from a camera on our dash as we drive out to the Harvest Nights Gather...

Episode 42 - Season 2 Conclusion from 2019-10-03T01:51:10

We're at the end of Season 2, but we have plans for hiatus and Season 3! We'll tell you all about them, and give you an idea of what it's been like for us to do this podcast for the past two sea...

Episode 41 - Social Media Resources, Diversity, and Work from 2019-09-26T19:21:15

One of our big things in Three Cranes Grove, ADF, is that we love to create. After Rev. Crystal Groves' discussion o...

Episode 40 - (In)toning For Ritual from 2019-09-19T23:34:18

What is toning? How do you do it? What's it good for? What's the lamest joke you've heard all day? We have the answers to all these questions and more in this episode! This episode was recorded ...

Episode 39 - Multifaith Household Religion from 2019-09-12T05:52:21

Sometimes, Druids flying to festivals get picked up by Druids in cars, and that's where this conversation comes from: Rev. Avende was picking up p...

Episode 38 - Founding and Disbanding a Druid Grove from 2019-09-05T00:01

We had the pleasure of interviewing Arthur at Trillium 2019 about his experiences with starting, and then disbanding, a Grove that never took firm root. Hemlock Vales Protogrove, ADF, lasted for...

Episode 37 - Summerland 2019 Review from 2019-08-29T00:00

On the way home from the 2019 Summerland Festival, Rev. Dangler spoke with Jacque of The Pagan Pe...

Episode 36 - Recording Ritual from 2019-08-22T10:13:54

Our Grove is known for our video work and presenting Pagan ritual, and Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler talk about what it's like to pull all these videos together.

What's it like to take an ...

Episode 35 - Becoming Pagan from 2019-08-15T00:01

What does the journey to Paganism look like? It's different for us all, and Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler compare their journeys, talking about their experiences with religion, the things that le...

Episode 34 - Dublin Irish Festival 2019 (In Three Parts) from 2019-08-08T00:01

Each year, Three Cranes Grove, ADF, does a Sunday Morning Druid Service for the Dublin Irish Festival. The a...

Episode 33 - The Dark Night Of the Soul In Polytheism from 2019-08-01T00:01

Today, Rev. Jan Avende and Mike Bierschenk come together to discuss the idea of being left alone and adrift in the spiritual world. They talk about what it's like to experience doubt in their sp...

Episode 32 - Divination Practice: Private and Public from 2019-07-25T00:01

This week we talk a little bit about what it's like to do divination for a person, and for a group. We start with a bit of information about our general notions of how divination works, includin...

Episode 31 - Raising Pagan Kids On Faerie Stories from 2019-07-18T00:01

How do we talk about our religion with our kids? What happens when you tell your children stories about faeries and the wider, magical world?

It turns out that you get kids who ask great ...

Episode 30 - The Druid Elevator Pitch from 2019-07-11T00:01

ComFest is one of the largest events Three Cranes Grove, ADF, does all year. It's a local music/beer/arts/hippie fest...

Episode 29 - Interview with Sara Mastros&The Orphic Hymns Grimoire from 2019-07-04T00:01

As we took our camps down at Wellspring 2019, Rev. Avende took a moment to interview Sara Mastros, who h...

Episode 28 - Cryptids, UFO's, and Our Weird Druidry from 2019-06-27T15:38:52

Sometimes, Druidry is full of weird experiences, and we're no exception. In this episode, we talk about weird things we've seen, odd experiences, and even the occasional Dedicant Path (DP) is the basic study program offered by Ár...

Episode 26 - Vending At Festivals from 2019-06-13T07:24:54

Today, we're not in a car, but we are at a festival! Rev. Dangler sat down at the 2019 Wellspring G...

Episode 25 - Extemporaneous Prayer Challenge! from 2019-06-06T00:01

Do you wonder how an ADF Priest prepares for and creates ritual prayers in a seemingly "off the cuff" sort of way? Rev. Wellspring 2019, Rev. Dangler gave a solo review of the event, providing a quick recap of the weekend along with a short previ...

Episode 23 - Magic That Works from 2019-05-23T00:01

Magical healing, magic to improve a mother's milk, cheese-magic for conception, magic for a toddler's tooth-tiger teething troubles: we've got practical experiences with magic that has worked in...

Episode 22 - Am I Good Enough For This? from 2019-05-16T20:55:02

We all sometimes have questions about our worth, whether we are new to Paganism or old hands. It doesn't really matter how long you've practiced or what you've accomplished, sometimes, you secon...

Episode 21 - The Oracular Spectacular! from 2019-05-09T19:20:21

Welcome to the Oracular Spectacular!

Revs. Avende and Dangler chat about a seership group Rev. Avende is part of here in Columbus, Ohio. Called "The Oracular Spectacular" and dedicated t...

Episode 20 - Fire Scrying from 2019-05-02T00:01

One of the cool things we got to do at the ADF Trillium Gathering this year was offer an uncommon form of divination during the main rite: fire scr...

Episode 19 - Trillium 2019 Review from 2019-04-25T15:38:17

For our first episode in the new season, we're reviewing the first festival we attended this year: The Trillium Spring Gathering, an Trillium (we're borrowing some random fre...

Bonus Episode 4 - #PrayerADay from 2018-11-01T23:39:55

November 1st starts our #PrayerADay challenge, and it's a Thursday, so we're releasing (by the skin of our teeth) an episode where Rev. Avende discusses the history behind the challenge, and how...

Bonus Episode 3 - Space Druidry! from 2018-09-13T20:37:20

What does it mean to have an Earth-Based Spirituality when we're very far from our home planet?

Originally recorded before this podcast ever came into being, Summerland, asking him about his impressions of the manhood rite Beyond the Gates this weekend (he's a Druid in a plane, going to a festival), we're releasing another bonus episode toda...

Episode 16 - Gender Nonconformity In Druidry from 2018-08-23T09:25:36

At Summerland 2018, we sat down (not in our car, but in the pavilion) with Corbin to discuss gender nonconformity among the spirits, and how we can make our language and work more inclusive. It ...

Bonus Episode 1 - Praise Silly and Sincere from 2018-08-16T23:12:09

While our hosts are at the Summerland Festival, we thought we'd regale you with a bit of our lighter side of the work we like to do: so...

Episode 15 - Returning to Vocation from 2018-08-09T09:30:22

With a larger gathering of ADF Priests, Rev. Avende took the opportunity to return to the issue of vocation at the 2018 ADF Western Clergy Retreat. Revs. Melissa Ashton, William Ashton, Sara Bla...

Episode 14 - Loneliness&Geographic Isolation from 2018-08-02T03:55:04

At the 2018 Western Clergy Retreat, Revs. Jan Avende, Melissa Ashton, Sara Blackwelder, Lauren Mart, and Kirk Thomas sat down to talk about what it feels like to be geographically isolated and d...

Episode 13 - Ritual Bloopers&Fails from 2018-07-26T09:00:39

Lucky number 13 brings us to a discussion from the Western Clergy Retreat about Ritual Bloopers and Fails! Rev. Avende sat down with several ADF Priests to discuss just how human they really are...

Episode 12 - The Bardic Livecasts from 2018-07-19T00:01

Driving home from one of the Bardic Live Casts we do (which is archived on Facebook, if you'd like to watch), Rev. Av...

Episode 11 - Priesting As A Woman (Part 2) from 2018-07-12T00:01

Our second episode on this topic, also recorded with Rev. Avende, Rev. Ashton, Rev. Blackwelder, and Rev. Mart at the Western ADF Clergy Retreat a few weeks ago, goes into some detail about the ...

Episode 10 - Priesting As A Woman (Part 1) from 2018-07-05T21:23:19

In this episode, which is the first of two on this topic, Revs. Jan Avende, Melissa Ashton, Sara Blackwelder, and Lauren Mart discuss some of the issues they have experienced as female Priests a...

Episode 9 - Discerning Vocation from 2018-06-28T00:01

In today's episode, we speak about vocation: how to recognize it, feed it, and understand where it's taking you. We also reflect on our own vocations, and how they've changed over time.

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Episode 8 - Experiences&Methods of Trance (with Rev. Ayliah Cannon) from 2018-06-21T00:01

This week, Jan was fortunate to speak with Rev. Ayliah Cannon about trance experiences and how they do the work.

In the discussion, they talk about a variety of trance mechanics and expe...

Episode 7 - Becoming a Senior Priest from 2018-06-14T14:56:39

What's it like to go a bit deeper down the rabbit hole of priesthood, and find yourself in new territory as a priest, and elevated to heights you weren't really expecting?

Here, Rev. Dan...

Episode 6 - Slipping Into Your Clergy Skin from 2018-06-07T08:20:58

In this episode, we talk about what it's like to find comfort in our skin as clergy, as Initiates, and even as Grove members. We discuss a lot of the practicalities of inclusion, where responsib...

Episode 5 - Patronage: A Deeper Relationship from 2018-05-31T00:01

On our way out to the 2018 ADF Trillium Spring Gathering, picking up where our last episode left off, we discussed the idea of spiritual patronage:...

Episode 4 - Building Relationships, Setting Boundaries from 2018-05-24T00:01

This was an important conversation recorded on the way back from the 2018 ADF Trillium Spring Gathering. We talk about our patrons, how we buil...

Episode 3 - The Images On Our Altars from 2018-05-17T00:01

This is actually the first conversation we recorded on our way out to the 2018 ADF Trillium Spring Gathering, and we spoke a lot about our altars, p...

Episode 2 - A Drought Of Work from 2018-05-10T07:00:22

In this conversation, recorded on the way home from the 2018 ADF Trillium Spring Gathering, we had a broad discussion about what happens when w...

Episode 1 - Building Devotionals and Family Practice from 2018-05-03T10:22:09

Headed to the 2018 ADF Trillium Gathering, Rev.'s Avende and Dangler spoke about how they do daily devotionals, how they've changed and grown over time, and how their families have interacted wi...

Episode 0 - Introduction from 2018-04-30T12:20:50

Have you ever wanted to extend the fireside conversations you have at festivals beyond the gates of the event?

Join Rev. Jan Avende and Rev. Michael J Dangler in our introductory episode...