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August 2016

August 30, 2016

What’s A Nice Atheist Like Me Doing At Gods & Radicals?

My worldview does not accommodate supernatural beings that exist separately and independently of human beings....

August 12, 2016

The Forgotten History of Atheist Paganism

Polytheists and Pagan Reconstructionist do not have an exclusive claim to the pagan past. While...

April 2016

April 01, 2016

Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans is now available for sale!

While many Pagans today believe in literal gods, there are a growing number of Pagans...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

I Hold These Things To Be Sacred: A Reply to Sarenth Odinsson

I hold these things to be sacred and holy: all life, the earth, nature, our...

October 29, 2015

“Atheist Pagan” Does Not Equal “Secular Pagan”

Yes, atheist Paganism is "a thing." And it should neither be confused with secularism nor...

September 2015

September 04, 2015

Believing In Our Myths, Without Believing Them

We need to find a way to live mythically, without taking our myths literally --...

September 02, 2015

Don’t Tell Me I Haven’t Met Any Gods

If you're a polytheist who believes in multiple pantheons, then you have to acknowledge the...

March 2015

March 19, 2015

Church is no substitute for religion, Part 2: The Spirituality Gap

"Religion" is about symbol, myth, and ritual, while "church" is about community, morality/ethics, and ideology

March 18, 2015

Church is no substitute for religion, Part 1: The Sunday Assembly and Religionless Church

The Sunday Assembly wants to be "all the best parts of church but without the...

February 2015

February 01, 2015

My god may be blind, but I’m not: Why theists don’t have a corner on religious experience

Some atheists have had experiences which are very similar, if not identical, to those of...

August 2014

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...

November 2013

November 04, 2013

Being an atheist just ain’t what it used to be

God is not the answer to our questions. "God" is the name for the question...

August 2013

August 03, 2013

My Favorite Posts From July

There's so much interesting blogging going on in our community. I want to highlight a...

June 2013

June 15, 2013

We’re not all Amy B.: Meet some other non-theistic Pagans

When saw that Jason Mankey interviewed atheist Pagan Amy B. at Raising the Horns, I...

November 2012

November 03, 2012

The dirty words we use to describe each other

Some time ago, I heard a story on NPR's "This American Life", about a guy...

August 2012

August 22, 2012

Who are we talking to anyway?: Humanistic Paganism and the gods

Over at The Wild Hunt, Brendan Myers has posted a guest article about whether Humanist...

June 2012

June 03, 2012

Star Foster surrenders the “Pagan” label to the naturalists

Okay, not quite. I overstated my title for dramatic effect. But that's how shocked I...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

Guest Post: “Not Believing Anything” by C. Luke Mula

C. Luke Mula is the author of The Way to Actuality blog, which was "founded...

April 2012

April 15, 2012

Reality vs. Meaning

I’ve been watching this series on TV, “Awake”, and I noticed a parallel to some...

March 2012

March 14, 2012

Jesus saved me from Christianity … so I could become Pagan

Jason Mankey recently posted an interesting essay about what he calls the "Pagan/Atheist alliance". In...