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April 2016

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 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...

September 2015

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...

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...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Branches of the Deep Ecology Tree: The Gaia Theory: Reuniting our bodies and nature

The Gaia Theory calls into question many deeply ingrained scientific and cultural assumptions and challenges...

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?...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

Defining Paganism and Neopaganism

I can't believe I am diving into this linguistic swamp again, but here goes. Recently,...