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October 2014

October 11, 2014

Fruits of the Deep Ecology Tree: Interconnectedness

The principle of interconnectedness refers to the concept that all living beings exist in relation...

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...

October 05, 2014

Branches of the Deep Ecology Tree: Ecotheology: Reuniting God and nature

Lynn White argued that the belief that the earth was a resource for human consumption...

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 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...

September 04, 2014

What is Humanistic/Naturalistic Paganism?

Humanistic Paganism and Naturalistic Paganism are both terms used to describe a unique Pagan path...

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?...

August 11, 2014

Single File Spirituality: Community for Spiritual Introverts

I need to let go of this abstract idea of what participation in a religious...

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....

March 2014

March 25, 2014

The baby is the bathwater: Why I haven’t joined the Unitarian church

It seems to me that, in religious matters, we just can't throw out the bathwater...

March 08, 2014

A Devotional Practice with the World at its Center

I realized that devotional practice is not limited to deity-centered religion. There can be an...

March 02, 2014

How Vampires Led Me to Paganism

I just finished reading Margot Adler's Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the...

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...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

“I am become the Sun …”: What Baby Jesus means to this Pagan

As surely as a part of me died when I left Mormonism, something new was...

December 20, 2013

Putting Mabon Back in Christmas

Whenever I hear a Neo-Pagan say that the winter solstice is a "minor Sabbat", I...

December 13, 2013

Being a Privileged Pagan

While the Goddess was having cakes and ale at Pagan Spirit Gathering, many lawyers and...

November 2013

November 22, 2013

Our happily remarried ex’s: Teo Bishop and Pagan spite

If you're like me, then there's a part of you that sees your former religion...

September 2013

September 28, 2013

What a Pagan can tell you about whether Mormons are Christian

The question of whether or not Mormons are Christians has less to do with Mormons...

September 21, 2013

Cherish Our Polytheists: The balkanization of our community and what is at stake

Each time someone withdraws from Paganism, we lose not only their company, but also their...

September 01, 2013

A Neopagan Celebrity Tarot (Part 2)

My nominations for the last 11 trump cards of the Tarot drawn from Pagan celebrities...

August 2013

August 24, 2013

Embracing Weirdness

I see contemporary Paganism as an attempt to revise the categories of Western civilization: God

August 15, 2013

Passing on my Paganism

This is what Paganism does for me. It brings out the holiness of the everyday:...

August 03, 2013

My Favorite Posts From July

There's so much interesting blogging going on in our community. I want to highlight a...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

10 reasons I care about the same sex marriage rulings

I care because I'm a human being and I feel the pain of other human...