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June 2016

June 15, 2016

Guns or Religion? The Danger of Simple Answers

Clarity can be a scary thing sometimes ... people who believe that killing others is...

June 13, 2016

An Earthseed Solstice: Festival of the Teacher

Our teachers Are all around us,. All that we perceive, All that we experience, All...

June 08, 2016

I don’t often agree with polytheists, but when I do …

I don't often agree with polytheists about religious matters, so I am excited when I...

June 05, 2016

Home is a Place You Have Never Been: Finding Eternity in Change

Is it possible that there is a kind of permanence to be found in the...

June 02, 2016

Review of Godless Paganism at Endless Erring

"... Paganism articulates an alternative approach, one where deity is not necessarily dismissed as by...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Why I Chose to Get Arrested (with photos): My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Postscript)

"What are you going to wear to get arrested?" This was my wife's question as...

May 22, 2016

Paganism’s Promise: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Part 10/10)

Earlier in the summer, Patheos Pagan had invited its bloggers to answer the question, “Has...

May 21, 2016

We’re Already Living in a Tree: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Part 9/10)

There were other experiences too that fall that contributed to this transformation, quotidian but no...

May 20, 2016

Voices in the Wilderness: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Part 8/10)

The writings of John Muir and Rachel Carson, the "father of the national parks" and...

May 19, 2016

It Should Have Happened on a Mountaintop: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Part 7/10)

I guess we don’t get to choose the time and place of our epiphanies.

May 18, 2016

An Interfaith Ritual with the World’s Largest Living Being: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Part 6/10)

Later that summer, while visiting my in-laws in Utah, we drove up to Fish Lake,...

May 17, 2016

The Garden of the Gods in My Backyard: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (5/10)

Would it be possible to stand in my suburban yard or even in an asphalt...

May 16, 2016

Tell us about someone you know who is putting A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment into action

I want to collect the stories of a half dozen to a dozen Pagans who...

May 16, 2016

The World As My Beloved: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Part 4/10)

For a long time, I had been so distracted by theological questions, both fascinate and...

May 14, 2016

My “Double Rainbow Experience”: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Part 3/10)

Pagans often talk about an experience of “connection” in such places. It was not so...

May 12, 2016

“If you want to go live in a tree, just let me know.”: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Part 2/10)

Over the past couple of years, I have felt my spiritual orientation shifting from a...

May 11, 2016

Christianity as the Modern Pagan Scapegoat

We Pagans like to think we don't have scapegoats in our religion, because we don't...

May 10, 2016

My Winding Path to Environmental Activism: Introduction (Part 1/10)

This weekend, I'm planning on being arrested as part of an environmental action at a...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

Limited Time Offer: Godless Paganism Free (with $5 S&H)

Due to a printer error, I have 100 extra copies of Godless Paganism. These copies...

April 24, 2016

Arbor Day is Like Earth Day for Procrastinators

If Earth Day snuck up on you or passed you by (it was last Friday),...

April 23, 2016

The Greening of Paganism, Part 2

There is a presumption among many Pagans that Paganism is and always has been a...

April 23, 2016

The Greening of Paganism, Part 1

There is a presumption among many Pagans that Paganism is and always has been a...

April 22, 2016

Fiddling With The Gods While Rome Burns

What Beckett has been describing with increasing clarity over the past several years is a...

April 22, 2016

How are you working for change on Earth Day?

Earth Day is finally here! How are you working for change this Earth Day?

April 21, 2016

Hear Diverse Voices Reading a Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

You can now listen to a compilation of voices of various ethnicities, nationalities, ages, and...

April 21, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #1 Share A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

So you don't want Earth Day (tomorrow) to go by unobserved. What can you do?...

April 20, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #2 Take Care of Yourself

Take care of yourself. Don’t forget to breathe. Take time for your self. Beware of...

April 19, 2016

Update: Godless Paganism is now available on Amazon!

For everyone who was waiting for the paperback edition of Godless Paganism to become available...

April 19, 2016

The gods are “like warm apple pie”: The hidden meanings behind our metaphors

I don't know what is going on with all the apple metaphors. First, John Beckett...

April 19, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #3 Face Your Death

We instinctively turn away from this truth. And we engage in myriad strategies, both individually...