Patheos is running a feature this month on Rites of Passage. This week, I’m pulling up five posts from my old Blogger site on the topic of initiation, making a few updates, and putting them up front ...

A member of your Pagan group has asked you for an initiation. After some conversation, you’re convinced the desire is genuine and the expectations are realistic. You’re not part of an organization ...

It was a rite of extremely dangerous passages. The youth soccer players trapped inside a flooded network of caves in northern Thailand went into the subterranean system as part of an “initiation” ...

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