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September 2014

September 24, 2014

Help HumanisticPaganism.com advertise at The Wild Hunt

Help HumanisticPaganism.com place an add at The Wild Hunt, the primary online destination for news...

September 23, 2014

The Deep Ecology Tree: What is Deep Ecology?

In 1972, Arne Naess coined the term “deep ecology” to contrast with "shallow" environmentalism. At...

September 21, 2014

Roots of the Deep Ecology Tree: Neo-Pagans, “The Dirt Worshippers”

The history of Neo-Paganism is part of a larger history of nature religion in the...

September 19, 2014

Roots of the Deep Ecology Tree: Rachel Carson, “A cry in the wilderness that changed the world”

Rachel Carson: "We still haven’t become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a...

September 18, 2014

What I don’t miss about Christianity (and why this post is not about Star Foster)

The thing that I don't miss about Christianity is ME, the Christian me, the person...

September 17, 2014

Roots of the Deep Ecology Tree: Aldo Leopold, “Thinking Like a Mountain”

"The land is one organism. ... The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is...

September 15, 2014

Roots of the Deep Ecology Tree: John Muir, “Prophet of the Wilderness”

John Muir's language sometimes came close to pantheism, or even animism. His language would be...

September 13, 2014

Roots of the Deep Ecology Tree: The Transcendentalists, “An Original Relation to the Universe”

The Transcendentalists believed that studying nature was a way to comprehend the divine, another idea...

September 04, 2014

What is Humanistic/Naturalistic Paganism?

Humanistic Paganism and Naturalistic Paganism are both terms used to describe a unique Pagan path...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Neo-Paganism.org is now (also) Neo-Paganism.com

I'm pleased to report that Neo-Paganism.org is now Neo-Paganism.com ! Come by and check it out. I'm...

August 29, 2014

Call for a Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

Where is our declaration on the environment? Where is our action plan on climate change?...

August 16, 2014

Are monism and polytheism a matter of temperament?

It would be beneficial if we as a community would stop looking at one another...

August 15, 2014

An alternative conception of divine reciprocity

I have a new post up at Humanistic Paganism entitled, "'As the gods pour, so do...

August 13, 2014

Why this Pagan cares about the LDS Ordain Women movement

Change is coming. It's not going to come as quickly or as completely as I...

August 11, 2014

Single File Spirituality: Community for Spiritual Introverts

I need to let go of this abstract idea of what participation in a religious...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

I miss you already Margot

None of the recent deaths of prominent Pagans has struck me so hard as the...

July 24, 2014

How the world’s largest living thing made proto-Pagans out of my Mormon family

We need to invite people to participate in simple rituals that will help them form...

July 12, 2014

The Allergic Pagan at Play: “wild” nature as soul food

Even while I sat at home scratching my poison ivy, I never once regretted the...

July 10, 2014

Who is reading this blog? (Results)

In my last post, I offered a survey to find out who my readers are....

July 07, 2014

Who is Reading this Blog? (Survey)

Jason Mankey recently raised the question "Who are we writing for?" This got me thinking....

July 04, 2014

Five ritualists I’d like to invite to dinner, Part 3: Jason Mankey

This is the third in a series in which I showcase some of the best...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

When bad people do good things: separating art from its author in the context of patriarchal privilege

Women in our culture are routinely characterized by their behavior, while men are given a...

June 25, 2014

Why I don’t trust the gods (at least not if I’m alone with one)

I think it's a mistake to assume the gods are benign. The word "worship" derives...

June 17, 2014

“Darkness Leaping Out of Light”: The Summer Solstice from a different angle

If we celebrated the birth of the Sun Child to Mother Night on the longest...

June 14, 2014

The Destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

The Destiny of Earthseed Is to take root among the stars. It is to live...

June 10, 2014

My Spiritual Landscape

What does your spiritual landscape look like? Are there mountains? Is it lush and green...

June 05, 2014

Why I have hope for Unitarian Universalism

What if, instead of trying to create religious space for everyone to "believe what they...

June 02, 2014

(Partheno)Genesis: A Feminist Midrash

In the beginning, before the Goddess (Elat) gave birth to the Earth, before the gods...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

Neo-Paganism Timeline Project: Your help needed!

A timeline of Neo-Pagan history is now available at neo-paganism.org. The timeline runs more or...

May 19, 2014

Finding the Pagan Goddess in a Mormon temple

Mormons believe in a Heavenly Mother, but are not allowed to pray to or even...