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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 08, 2016

Size Doesn’t Matter: 5 Pieces of Advice for New Bloggers

My two most popular posts in terms of daily pageviews were a satirical piece that...

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 24, 2016

Neither Capitalism Nor Socialism: A Third Alternative

Distributism rejects both capitalism and socialism. Capitalism inevitably leads to the concentration of power in...

August 17, 2016

“You Can’t Make This S#!t Up”: On My First (and Last?) Foray into Satire

The only thing more outrageous than the actual story I posted was the willingness of...

August 14, 2016

I’m a spy for the Mormon Church

My mission was infiltrate Paganism, discover the secret of its success, and work to destabilize...

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.

July 2016

July 15, 2016

How “Gods Before Politics” Perpetuates Privilege

The myth of non-political Pagan spaces acts as a blindfold for the Pagan community --...

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...

May 2016

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 21, 2016

We’re Already Living in a Tree: My Winding Path to Environmental Activism (Part 9/10)

There were other experiences too that fall that contributed to this transformation, quotidian but no...

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 11, 2016

Christianity as the Modern Pagan Scapegoat

We Pagans like to think we don't have scapegoats in our religion, because we don't...

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 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 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 19, 2016

The gods are “like warm apple pie”: The hidden meanings behind our metaphors

I don't know what is going on with all the apple metaphors. First, John Beckett...

April 13, 2016

The Awkward Adolescence of the Polytheist Movement: Defining Community at the Edges

The contemporary Polytheist movement is in its adolescence, and like every adolescence, it's awkward and...

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 05, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #17 Overturn Citizens United

We need regulators and elective representatives who are financially independent of the industries they are...

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 03, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #19 Take Direct Action

Direct action means strikes, demonstrations, or other public forms of protest. If you're like me,...

April 02, 2016

Countdown to Earth Day 2016: #20 Vote Responsibly

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

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...