Blasphemy! by Starstuff, Contemplating

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Blasphemy laws are one of the most egregious and severe forms of religious privilege.  It is the use of state-sponsored violence to attack someone for speaking in ways that religious leaders don’t like.   Yet many countries, including the United States,…

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Why Pagans Need Field Guides

Animals, Anthropocentrism, Bioregion, Books, Environmentalism, Fungi, Naturalist Paganism, Nature, Nature Spirituality, Paganism, Plants, Science, The Green Wolf

I was talking to someone on Facebook today about how I’m a field guide nerd. I have an ever-growing collection of identification books on the fauna, flora and fungi of the Pacific Northwest, as well as its complicated geology, climate, and other natural features…. Continue Reading

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Starting Fresh: Imagining a New Paganism

Atheology, Atheopaganism, Personal Reflection

What if we were starting today? If, here, 18 years into the 21st century CE, we were to invent a new, Earth-loving, progressive, reality-based religion? Imagine a practice, a cosmology, a set of values rooted in what we now know about the Cosmos, about Nature, about ourselves. If we were starting just today. What would … Continue reading Starting Fresh: Imagining a New Paganism

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