Temple Mami Dan Densu of Alaska

It's Mother's Day and many within the African Diaspora community express a palpable disdain for Western holidays. While I agree there...

I had been hearing about this for about a year but kept the young lady's name out my mouth because I really didn't know too much about it....

In Vodou, there are many ways to make petition to the Divine, but the most readily available method is do gbe ɖa, prayer. It is important...

Like a lot of retired service members I let myself go after separation and like a lot of service members I regret that laps of self...

"If it's not about black liberation, I don't have time for it! " I hear this often from diasporans looking for spirituality without the...

"If there is no blood, there is no Vodou". It's as simple as that. Sacrifice is specific. It is not commerce where you give what you...

People don't always get along well with their parents and quite frankly the responsibility usually falls on the parents. Children don't...

At a minimum, once a day, a person should pour water and gin or other strong drink on the clean earth to thank God for a world of...

There is a quite prolific author and Hounnan whose work I greatly admire. She wrote recently about the challenges of teaching Vodou...

A few months ago someone close to me publicly disagreed with me on my assertion, "Spiritual but not religious people are either mistaken...

In my mind this started out very small and simple, but upon further reflection there's no way I can have this discussion in a single...

I'm not in the habit of telling other people who and what they are without divining for them first. That said I reject the racial...

I was listening to Tyler Perry's speech in Detroit this afternoon. It was inspiring, but it got me to thinking. Doesn't America owe us a...

Is Vodou compatible with other religions? The true answer is "Yes, but". Vodou, like most other religions, have many conceptual...

No path is lonelier. You are a person under relentless scrutiny. You are reviled by the world because you are too small. You are rejected...

No one asks me this question to my face but I hear it whispered behind my back. Isn’t it devil worship? Aren’t you afraid of being...

Mami Yeυevodou, a matrilineal African tradition, bares a striking resemblance to Hinduism… …and detractors of Africans and African...

Conservative Wing - Ostensibly, this is the wing that should be most compatible with practitioners of Vodou. We are both concerned with...

My wife and I was talking last week about prayer. The need to do it daily as a form of self care. She doesn't like to do it and...

Sacrifices to TODELA went well today. I stopped by the shop of my livestock vendor to inquire about the well being of her business. She...