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March 2016

March 28, 2016

Three Reasons Why Pagans Need a Community Statement on the Environment

What good are words, after all, when what we need is action? Here's three reasons...

March 19, 2016

American Gods and the Growth of Devotional Polytheism, Part 2: Dilution and Transcendence

American Gods reflected -- and probably magnified -- a dissatisfaction among many Pagans with popular...

March 19, 2016

American Gods and the Growth of Devotional Polytheism, Part 1: Fantasy and Inspiration

There has always been a close relationship between fantasy and contemporary Paganism, and for the...

March 11, 2016

From a Flatland Metaphysics to the Ecology of the Gods

Let's acknowledge that all of us are talking about gods, but we're talking about them...

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...

January 2016

January 14, 2016

“Less Christian Than Thou”: Neo-Paganism and Polytheism Beyond the Christian Divide

Neo-Pagans and Polytheists -- have fundamentally different issues. Polytheism and Neo-Paganism don't just represent different...

December 2015

December 24, 2015

7 Reasons Why Christmas is Part of My Pagan Wheel of the Year

1. Yule is NOT a minor sabbat. "Whenever I hear a Neo-Pagan say that the...

December 09, 2015

Someone said something stupid on the internet … so I went to my altar.

Yesterday, I read a blog post that tested my recent commitment to abstain from Internet...

November 2015

November 28, 2015

How Pagan Spaces Become Toxic to Non-Theistic Pagans (Part 2)

I present this as an example of the kind of animosity and vitriol that non-theistic...

November 28, 2015

How Pagan Spaces Become Toxic to Non-Theistic Pagans (Part 1)

I present this as an example of the kind of animosity and vitriol that non-theistic...

November 24, 2015

Why Pagans Hate “Witches of America”

I wonder if perhaps what underlies some of the intensity of the Pagan condemnation of...

November 20, 2015

“The Great Story”: A Non-Theistic Cosmology

"The Great Story" is the 14 billion year narrative of the evolution of the cosmos,...

November 13, 2015

A “Valiant Attempt” to Bridge the Gap Between Pagans and Environmentalists

"It is clear that Paganism and environmentalism are close allies in building a more sustainable...

November 06, 2015

Raiding of Intellectual Cattle: A Guest Post by Steven Posch

As a storyteller, I tend to do much of my thinking through stories. In the...

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...

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 10, 2015

We’re All Appropriating Dead Pagan Cultures

Do those who are attempting to revive a dead culture have the right to claim...

August 2015

August 19, 2015

Internet Paganism Is Not Paganism, or Why I Am Still A Pagan Pain the Ass

The discussions that happen on the internet are not Paganism. They are discussions about Paganism....

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 21, 2015

Global Eco-Paganism: South Korea

This is the sixth in a series spotlighting some of the signatories to A Pagan...

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...

July 16, 2015

Global Eco-Paganism: Japan

This is the fifth in a series spotlighting some of the signatories to A Pagan...

July 03, 2015

Gender Issues at HumanisticPaganism.com

In honor of Malala Yousafzai, the themes for HumanisticPaganism.com the month are individualism, religious tradition,...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

I didn’t think this needed to be said, but apparently it does …

To any person who takes issue with me or the opinions I have expressed here,...

June 26, 2015

Global Eco-Paganism: Czech Republic

It is not about us taking care of the Planet which is somehow ours like...

June 24, 2015

A Radical Pagan Pope?

While the Pope comes to many right conclusions about anthropogenic climate change and the limits...

June 20, 2015

How Hobbits celebrate the Summer Solstice: Raising the Shire

When we light our solstice fire, I will be thinking of shadows. I will be...

June 19, 2015

12 Things Pagans Should Know About the Pope’s Environmental Encyclical

Yesterday, the Pope's historic environmental encyclical was published. The document is almost 200 pages long,...

June 04, 2015

12 Reasons You Can’t (only) Call God “Father”

"They will continue with the radical feminist agenda until they are actually holding hands with...