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January 2017

January 04, 2017

Call to Chicago Area Pagans: Come to Hammond on Jan. 13th

There are thousands of Pagans in the Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana region. We Pagans have...

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 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

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 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 22, 2016

Fiddling With The Gods While Rome Burns

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

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Three Reasons Why Pagans Need a Community Statement on the Environment

What good are words, after all, when what we need is action? Here's three reasons...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

A “Valiant Attempt” to Bridge the Gap Between Pagans and Environmentalists

"It is clear that Paganism and environmentalism are close allies in building a more sustainable...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

4 Things Every Aspiring Environmental Activist Should Know

I'm brand new at environmental activism. One thing I have learned over the past year...

August 2015

August 23, 2015

If It Doesn’t Help Me Save This World, I Don’t Want Your Polytheist Revolution

It has become more clear to me than ever why I am opposed to the...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Global Eco-Paganism: Czech Republic

It is not about us taking care of the Planet which is somehow ours like...

May 2015

May 07, 2015

“10,000 Pagans Raise Their Voices For Environmental Action”: Help make this a reality

Help us get 10,000 signatures for "A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment" by Summer...

May 01, 2015

Ha, Jon Stewart! Pagans can organize!

I've heard "herding cats" analogies more times than I care to count, but the fact...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Arbor Day: Earth Day for Procrastinators

If Earth Day snuck up on you or passed you by (it was Wednesday), don't...

April 13, 2015

Putting Marx in his place: Why we need a change in spirit as much as a change in economics

Working toward a shift in consciousness is not sufficient by itself. But likewise, neither do...

December 2014

December 06, 2014

The Pagan Slur: Do we hurt the environmental movement by association?

It is probable that the people who are slurring environmentalism by association with "paganism" are...

November 2014

November 10, 2014

Interstellar and Capitalism: Imagining a Different Future

More than any other religious group in the West, perhaps, Pagans can remember a time...

September 2014

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...

August 2014

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...

July 2014

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...

June 2014

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...