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October 2014

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 27, 2014

Branches of the Deep Ecology Tree: Neo-Animism and Bioregionalism: Reuniting human and nature

Neo-animism represents a challenge to Western discourse which divides the world into subjects and objects,...

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 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 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 07, 2014

Who is Reading this Blog? (Survey)

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

June 2014

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...

May 2014

May 08, 2014

Neo-Paganism.org is now in the Beta testing phase

Neo-Paganism.org is an attempt to outline a Neo-Paganism that is distinct from both devotional and...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Love, Earth, Body, Ritual: These are the threads of my emerging spiritual tapestry.

Love, Earth, Body, Ritual: Over the next few months I'll be writing about how I...

February 2014

February 22, 2014

Wiccanate Privilege Discussion at Pantheacon

"Wiccanate" is a term coined by Johnny Rapture, and it refers to American Neo-Pagan theological...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

Why I am a Neo-Pagan, or One thing I agree with Sam Webster about

There's a blogging project started over at Patheos, "Why am I a ...", in which...

March 22, 2013

“Waiter! There’s some Christianity in my Pagan soup!”

The latest brouhaha in the Pagan blogosphere is Sam Webster's post "Why You Can't Worship...

January 2013

January 12, 2013

My (Neo-)Pagan Elevator Speech

Jonathan Korman (whose post I can't seem to talk enough about) recently described an awkward...

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,...

May 2012

May 02, 2012

American Neopaganism, Part 1: An Imaginary Tradition?

The AmericanNeopaganism.com website which I maintain will be taken down next month. I've maintained it...

August 2011

August 30, 2011

Meso-Wicca and Neo-Paganism

Over at Patheos, two weeks after Star Foster lauded the praises of traditional initiatory Wicca,...