For the pagan convert and those who were raised pagan alike, Barbara Ardinger has brought us a devotional book. Pagan Every Day is a fantastic book filled with snippets of information about modern pop culture, Roman, Greek and Etruscan deities, saints and their saintly beginnings, and so very much more.

A devotional is traditionally a book for people of a Christian persuasion filled with stories and words of wisdom. Something to read once a day, a way to help people to ‘devote’ a small portion of their daily lives to God, to their own spirituality and to promote daily spiritual practice. A way to start or maybe end your day with some quality ‘God time’. Pagan Every Day has a little tagline on the front cover that says: Finding the Extraordinary in Our Ordinary Lives. And this is what the book strives to do, help the regular person to elevate their thinking and see things in a different way.

The book also reads as a dialogue many times, with (Dear Author) Barbara addressing you as her reader and calling on you to think. In a time where we are so busy with running to work, getting the kids from school, making dinner, feeding the cats, reading blogs and watching television, it can be difficult for the average person out there to set aside a portion of their day, even just 15 minutes, that are reserved for personal thought and reflection (on spirituality or anything else for that matter). As well as being a very fun, interesting and engaging read, with the author giving out little bits of information on a wide variety of fascinating subjects, I think that this book can help the proverbial everyman (and everywoman) out there to think more about their lives, about history, herstory and everything spiritual and enlightening in between.