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May 2016

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...

April 2016

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...

April 15, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #7 Reconnect With Wild Nature

If we really want to practice a nature religion or an earth-centered spirituality, then we...

April 13, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #9 Ground Your Rituals

One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to help...

February 2016

February 18, 2016

Want To Be A Pagan?: “Climb a Fucking Tree!”

"If you want to worship nature, you don’t need a sunwheel, pentacle, or a goddess...

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...

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...

September 10, 2015

Why “Pagan”? – An Atheist Pagan’s Response to a Theist

Why do we call ourselves "Pagan"? Why not just call ourselves atheists or humanists? What...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

“The Disenchantment of Hard Polytheism”

"... Human beings have consistently demonstrated a collective unwillingness to place the needs of our...

August 04, 2015

Why I Am “Still” A Pagan: the Problem and the Promise

In spite of the uncritical attitudes and superstitious ideas that haunt a lot of Paganism,...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

Why I’m Boycotting Lughnasadh

This weekend, I suggest we forget everything we think we know about Lughnasadh or Lammas....

July 19, 2015

Beyond Female Role Models: The Triple Goddess as Nature

The Triple Goddess was not intended to be a role model for women. Rather, she...

May 2015

May 13, 2015

“Pagans and the Pope Join their Voices to Save the Planet”

When Catholics talk about "paganism", it never seems to me that they are really talking...

October 2014

October 07, 2014

Branches of the Deep Ecology Tree: Nature Religion: Reuniting religion and nature

Nature religionists perceive nature as both sacred and interconnected. By “sacred”, we mean that nature...

October 01, 2014

Branches of the Deep Ecology Tree: Ecofeminism: Reuniting the masculine and nature

Ecofeminism is a part of the broader feminist spirituality movement, which emerged with “second-wave feminism”...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

Branches of the Deep Ecology Tree: Ecopsychology: Reuniting mind and nature

Much of modern psychology assumes a divide between inner reality (mind) and outer reality (nature)....

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 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...

August 2014

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?...

July 2014

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...

February 2014

February 08, 2014

These aren’t the gods you’re looking for.

At some point in your spiritual journey, you have to stop looking over other people's...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Gods I have known, Part 2: Macrocosm

What is the relationship between the gods of my psyche and the gods of nature?...

December 2013

December 05, 2013

Where the sidewalk ends: Suburban enchantment

The chill wind was blowing gently and the cattails waved back and forth like they...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

A Defiant Worship: What Shark Week teaches me about God/dess

In the end, we all must surrender to God But in the meantime, let our...

August 03, 2013

My Favorite Posts From July

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

July 2013

July 10, 2013

Wonder and Death: Why only adults can really appreciate nature

Driving through Glenwood Canyon along the Colorado River, knowing that this beauty existed long before...

February 2013

February 17, 2013

Nature Worship: or Seeing the Trees for the Ents

P. Sufenas Virius Lupus has published another provocative post over at Queer I Stand, entitled...