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January 2017

January 30, 2017

A Guide to Politics at Patheos Pagan

If you are writing a blog here at Patheos, you are a Pagan leader, whether...

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...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

Four “Godless Pagan” Authors on Pagan Musing Podcast Tonight at 8pm ET / 7pm CT

Join us tonight at 8pm ET / 7pm CT / 6pm MT / 5pm PT...

September 05, 2016

Lowered Expectations Is Not the Answer to Bad Pagan Rituals

Who says that public rituals aren't about transcendence? Good rituals can be experienced on multiple...

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 29, 2016

5 Reasons You Should NOT Sign the Pagan Environmental Statement

There's perfectly valid reasons for choosing not to sign the Pagan Community Statement on the...

August 25, 2016

Can “God” be Castrated?

When we say that a historically male-gendered term is genderless, there is the risk that...

August 22, 2016

Enroll in Living Systems at Cherry Hill Seminary

Living Systems Science has its roots in the ecological and biological sciences, and attempts to...

August 05, 2016

The Pagans and the Christians (or … whatever happened to Teo Bishop?)

The best Pagan festival I went to this summer wasn't a Pagan festival at all.

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Is There a Place for God in Paganism?

Choosing to say "God" instead of "Goddess" allows us to speak about divinity separately from...

June 28, 2016

Don’t Call Me A “Generic Pagan”

In the interest of an inclusivity that is never really achieved, planners of public Pagan...

June 08, 2016

I don’t often agree with polytheists, but when I do …

I don't often agree with polytheists about religious matters, so I am excited when I...

May 2016

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.

April 2016

April 24, 2016

Arbor Day is Like Earth Day for Procrastinators

If Earth Day snuck up on you or passed you by (it was last Friday),...

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...

April 21, 2016

Hear Diverse Voices Reading a Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

You can now listen to a compilation of voices of various ethnicities, nationalities, ages, and...

April 21, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #1 Share A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

So you don't want Earth Day (tomorrow) to go by unobserved. What can you do?...

April 13, 2016

Sharing Our Stories, Sharing Our Gods

We don't own our myths ... or our gods ... or their images. And 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...

April 11, 2016

10 Days and 2,000 Signatures to Go! Help Spread the Word!

We just passed 8,000 signatures for A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment! From over...

April 09, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #13 Eat Green, Eat Local

Many people may not realize that a major source of carbon emissions and pollution is...

April 06, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #16 Save Biodiversity

We are in the middle of the Sixth Great Extinction of animals and plants, the...

April 04, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #18 Organize Your Community

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

April 01, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #21 Divest from Fossil Fuels

Individual consumers do not have the power to change the system. The system is driven...

December 2015

December 28, 2015

What’s On Your Pagan Calendar for 2016?

What does your Pagan Calendar look like? What special days do you observe in addition...

December 13, 2015

A Unitarian Wheel of the Year

Vespers in the winter, the Flower Communion in the spring, Pride Day in the summer,...

October 2015

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...

October 23, 2015

A “Truce” Which Requires Silence Cannot Produce Peace

There will never be a clean separation between Pagans and Polytheists. There will always be...

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...

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....