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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...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Pantheacon is Priceless (assuming one can afford it)

I don't even want to tally up how much Pantheacon cost this year, after plane...

February 06, 2015

See you at Pantheacon!

I am honored to be on two panels at Pantheacon this year, one official and...

February 01, 2015

My god may be blind, but I’m not: Why theists don’t have a corner on religious experience

Some atheists have had experiences which are very similar, if not identical, to those of...

January 2015

January 13, 2015

Non-Violent Writing: Selma and the “Pagan” question

How are we to respond when other claim the exclusive right to use certain words?...

January 05, 2015

An atheist Pagan, an animist, and a devotional polytheist walk into a ritual …

We have to accept that we can define words for ourselves, but not for others....

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Nothing new under the Winter Solstice sun: Christmas as a major sabbat

Christmas (like Hallow’een) is a sublime mix of Christian, pagan, and commercial traditions. And I...

December 20, 2014

HumanisticPaganism.com has a new look!

HumanisticPaganism.com has gotten a facelift. Among the changes are an informative front page, a handsome...

November 2014

November 19, 2014

13 Things You Don’t Need to Know About the Triple Goddess (but are kind of interesting)

1. Gerald Gardner did not worship the Triple Goddess. Gerald Gardner, the father of Wicca,...

November 15, 2014

The Secret History of the Triple Goddess, Part 3: Will the real Triple Goddess please stand up?

No symbol is more ubiquitous in Neo-Pagan and Wiccan culture than that of the Triple...

November 14, 2014

The Secret History of the Triple Goddess, Part 2: The Search for the Triple Goddess of Antiquity

I trace the evolution of the Greco-Roman triple goddess par excellence: Hekate-Diana. Many Pagans will...

November 13, 2014

The Secret History of the Triple Goddess, Part 1: Triads, Triplicities, and Trinities

The origin of the Robert Graves’ Triple Goddess has been hidden from us, because the...

November 10, 2014

Interstellar and Capitalism: Imagining a Different Future

More than any other religious group in the West, perhaps, Pagans can remember a time...

November 01, 2014

“We’re Already Living in a Tree”: Eco-Consciousness and a Life Worth Living

We hide from ourselves our immersion in nature. We do this by surrounding ourselves with...

October 2014

October 19, 2014

Fruits of the Deep Ecology Tree: Connecting with Nature

Neo-Paganism is a nature religion which, like other nature religions, perceives nature as both sacred...

October 17, 2014

Fruits of the Deep Ecology Tree: Wilderness and Rewilding

Neo-Paganism is a nature religion which, like other nature religions, perceives nature as both sacred...

October 15, 2014

Fruits of the Deep Ecology Tree: Pantheism

Pantheism means “All (pan-) is God (theos)”. Pantheism is the belief that God/dess is not...

October 13, 2014

Fruits of the Deep Ecology Tree: Re-Enchantment

The re-enchantment of the world refers to the return of a sense of mystery to...

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...