This last weekend I was honored to be a keynote speaker for the 6th Annual Pagan Conference at the Claremont Graduate University. People and presenters came from all over the world. The topic of the conference was "Sustainability." Rather than focus on the sustainability of our environment, the paper I delivered focused on the sustainability of Paganism as a vital and evolving set of paths.
For a scholarly crowd, my paper had the appropriate title: "The Similarity and Growth of Neopaganism and Early Judaism, and How that Indicates a Sustainable Neopagan Spirituality for the 21st Century." Honestly, it was a lot more interesting than the title might sound.
The basic thrust of my paper is