February 2019 – NaturalPagans

Welcome Home

February 28, 2019 Mark Green Atheopagan community, Atheopaganism

I’ve written on this subject before, but I want to say to the hundreds who have joined our Atheopagan online community since: welcome home! Welcome to a place where deep spirituality of Nature meets reason and critical thinking. To wild, naked dancing around a bonfire (real or imagined), and the wonders of science’s understanding of our … Continue reading Welcome Home

Burgeoning

February 27, 2019 Mark Green Atheopaganism, High Spring, Personal Reflection, Sabbaths

It’s definite now: the light is stronger, the days are longer. Here in the northern hemisphere, winter is passing, and spring is coming on. Where I live, in coastal Northern California, the very first wildflowers are the milk maids, and they are already gone now, faded to buttercups and hounds’ tongues and shooting stars: the … Continue reading Burgeoning

Pagan, Heal Thyself

February 27, 2019 Anna Walther wildseed

Some lament that the Pagan movement has failed to heal the world, failed to forestall human-made climate change and prevent abuse and oppression. A related complaint, usually made at the same time, is that other Pagans are self-absorbed. Others aren’t serious about their practice, the charge goes, as evidenced by the facts that they focus […]

Bella Morte

February 26, 2019 lupa Animals, Artwork, Creativity, Ethics, Nature, Nature Spirituality, Skin Spirits, The Green Wolf, Vulture Culture, Way of the Scavenger

Note: This was first published on No Unsacred Place around 2011-ish, which went defunct a few years ago (RIP–it was a good site). Then it was on Paths Through the Forests, but I split from Patheos a couple of years ago due to philosophical… Continue Reading

Bella Morte

February 26, 2019 lupa Animals, Artwork, Creativity, Ethics, Nature, Nature Spirituality, Skin Spirits, The Green Wolf, Vulture Culture, Way of the Scavenger

Reflections on Pantheacon 2019

February 23, 2019 Mark Green Atheopaganism, Pantheacon

I have just returned from Pantheacon, where I work as a volunteer staffer and have made presentations on Atheopaganism every year since 2015. I had a lovely time connecting with friends, making new ones, and meeting folks I’d only known before through the Atheopaganism Facebook group. Pantheacon 2019 was significantly smaller than in previous years, … Continue reading Reflections on Pantheacon 2019

Walking with my Dog is my Most Sacred Practice

February 21, 2019 Anna Walther wildseed

“Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters, finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord.” –Rebecca Solnit in Wanderlust: A History of Walking As an animistic pagan, my most sacred practice involves neither cauldron nor athame, although I […]

The Importance of Nearby Nature

February 21, 2019 lupa Animals, Anthropocentrism, Ecopsychology, Environmentalism, Nature, Nature Spirituality, Nature Writing, The Green Wolf

Note: This was first published on No Unsacred Place around 2012-ish, which went defunct a few years ago (RIP–it was a good site). Then it was on Paths Through the Forests, but I split from Patheos a couple of years ago due to philosophical… Continue Reading

The Importance of Nearby Nature

February 21, 2019 lupa Animals, Anthropocentrism, Ecopsychology, Environmentalism, Nature, Nature Spirituality, Nature Writing, The Green Wolf

FACING FORWARD: A talk on nontheist Paganism

February 21, 2019 Mark Green Atheist community, Atheopaganism, Opinion, Pagan Community

This talk was originally delivered at Pantheacon 2019. Let’s start with a question: what’s happening with religion today? It’s an amazing time to be involved with religion, because in the developed world, the Abrahamic religions are collapsing. As philosopher of religion Eric Steinhart says, this may be the most exciting time to be studying religion … Continue reading FACING FORWARD: A talk on nontheist Paganism