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January 2017

January 30, 2017

The Paradox of Tolerance Led To Fascism In America

This is an attempt to bring all this information together in an accessible way that...

January 19, 2017

Coalition Urges Facebook To Be Transparent About Censorship, Racism

Now that traditionally minority groups in the USA are becoming equal in population and probably...

January 17, 2017

The Scent of Winter

One of my strongest memories of winter from childhood is what it smelled like. Growing...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

Connecting to Nature in Human-Centered Places

Over the weekend I answered a query on Tumblr from a pagan feeling disconnected from...

December 16, 2016

Pros & Cons with Atheist Channel Being Renamed “Nonreligious”

Atheists who have found a home at the channel are now feeling that their hard...

November 2016

November 09, 2016

Canadian Reaction To Trump Presidency

To say I am disheartened by the outcome of this election would be a vast...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

Psych Meds, Self-Care and Paganism

Note: This was originally posted on my personal blog at and reposted by the kind request...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

Morals For the Sake of Morels

Our morals are shaped by human empathy and the social contract. My morals, in addition,...

August 2016

August 18, 2016

You Can Be Pagan, Or You Can Be Atheist, But You Can’t Be Both – Or So I’m Told

Pagan is a label that simply has claimed me, I’m just through trying to push...

August 10, 2016

Pagan, But Not What You’re Assuming

Many continue the conversation assuming that I believe in supernatural beings, like spirits in the...

August 08, 2016

My Favorite Solar-Earth Event and Why…

Here at Patheos we were asked a Summer Series Question, this time “What’s your favorite...

August 08, 2016

Chasing Ted Andrews

Lupa talks about the very first book she read on animal totemism, and how it...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Want To Notice Nature More? Here’s How!

I was privileged to be a guest of honor at this year’s Pagan Spirit Gathering....

April 2016

April 27, 2016

Why The Slump?

Rua Lupa shares what is going on...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

How Cultures Form, Cultural Conflicts, And Our Shared Humanity

Throughout history, there has been no single culture that has stayed “pure” nor will there...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Have Pagans Gotten Burned Out On Environmentalism?

When I first became pagan twenty years ago, it was common for "paganism" as an...

January 04, 2016

When, in the New Year, Antlers Drop

The animal world is full of creatures who, as a way of gaining a reproductive...

December 2015

December 11, 2015

The Real Reason For The Season

Each year I encounter something that most Pagans know, but the general public is oddly...

December 01, 2015

There Are In Nature Neither Rewards Nor Punishments–There Are Consequences

Lupa Greenwolf returns from her hiatus with a consideration on right, wrong, and wolves.

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Falling Out Of Christianity, Into Paganism, And Getting Up In Atheism

"One day it hit me – I no longer believe that there is a God,...

November 05, 2015

Worldview Connections: A Meditation on Our Worldviews and their Impacts

We live in a world full of connections--but how we view (or ignore) those connections...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

Canada’s Indigenous People Changing Canadian Politics

Thanks to our previous Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the First Nations peoples had enough of...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

I’ve Learned To Love the Rain

Lupa Greenwolf revisits her relationship to rain, long a contentious one.

August 04, 2015

Romanticism Runs Rampant: Ancestors, Indigenous Peoples, ‘Natural’

It doesn’t help anybody to unwittingly promote things that are in actuality falsehoods, and often...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Our Deadly Lack of Nature Literacy

We may think we're helping nature with our supposed kindness to animals--but in fact we're...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Solitary Solstice

Lupa Greenwolf has plans for a very sedate solstice.

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Why I Chose to Work on A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

Lupa Greenwolf was one of the writers of the controversial A Pagan Community Statement on...

May 05, 2015

Earth Ltd. Nature, Capitalism, Politics, Humanity

We conglomeratively create and influence Politics and the Economy. Thus we are conglomeratively responsible, just...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Cultural Quandaries: Spring & Sex

What would we do if we were to align procreating celebration themes with how Nature...

April 23, 2015

What Good is (Nature-Based) Paganism?

My spirituality is in this world. Not some other spiritual realm, not a promised afterlife....

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