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Can We Talk About the R-Word?, by Bart Everson
The philosopher Alain de Botton once noted that, “religions merit our attention for their sheer conceptual ambition.” But what is a religion anyhow? We all seem to have different ideas. I was raised in a doctrinally and politically conservative denomination…
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from the CCL Earth-based Spirituality Action Team: Your chance to help get a Carbon Price in the Budget!
Here is an opportunity to put our Naturalistic Pagan spirituality into action to help slow climate change! If we are going to slow climate change, we’ll need a number of actions, which together are more powerful than any alone. Putting…
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from the CCL Earth-based Spirituality Action Team: Conference and Video!
You might remember from 2019, when the founding of the Earth Based Spirituality Action Team (a chapter of the Climate Change Lobby – CCL) was announced here on the Naturalistic Paganism blog. Both CCL and our Earth-based chapter are going…
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How the larger community sees altars and why it matters, by Lexi Phillips
Your altar can be considered a spiritual hub of your home. Depending on your traditions there is a great flexibility about how you decorate your altar and the symbols you use. But what happens when the neighbors come to dinner…
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On “coming out” to my Catholic Community, by Bart Everson [A Pedagogy of Gaia]
Mornings of Prayer When I saw the announcement about a Morning of Prayer for staff at the university where I work, with “persons of all faith traditions… encouraged to attend,” I was curious but also skeptical but also hopeful. I’d…
Read moreOn Hearing Gaia’s Call
I’m beyond excited to report I got an article published in The Wild Hunt. Hearing Gaia’s Call This is, in fact, the long-delayed fruition of an essay which branched off from “Awakening to Gaia” some five years ago and developed a life of its own. Maybe someday I’ll get around to part three, “Singing Gaia’s […]
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Citizen’s Climate Lobby launches Earth-based Spirituality Action Team – Interview with Bart Everson
HP: What is this Earth-based Spirituality Action Team? What are the goals of the group, and who’s eligible for membership? BE: We’re just getting started, so I’ll use future tense. The team is being organized under the auspices of the…
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[A Pedagogy of Gaia] How I Celebrated the Equinox by Bart Everson
If we lived in a truly Earth-honoring society, I wouldn’t have to do this. If our society cherished our planet as source and sustainer of life, the Equinox would be surely be more widely known and celebrated as a sort of secular holy day. But we don’t live in such a society, to our impoverishment and peril. And that’s why we need to nourish a revolutionary spirit. And that’s why I make a point to celebrate the Equinox. And that’s why I took the day off.
Can we derive a secular spirituality from the seasons? by Bart Everson, in Standing Room Only
Bart Everson, author of “Spinning in Place,” speaks at the Venue Fine Arts and Gifts on July 9, 2017. On July 7, Bart Everson spoke about eco-spiritual practices at The Venue in Bloomington. A longtime atheist, Everson emphasized the celebration…