Climate Change – NaturalPagans

Free Webinar this Sunday (5/3): “Finding Meaning in the Dark: A Post-Doom Big Picture” by Michael Dowd

May 1, 2020 John Halstead Climate Change, collapse, Corona, Ecology, Michael Dowd, post-doom, Religious Naturalism

Please invite your friends! There will be two amazing presentations by Rev. Michael Dowd this Sunday (May 3). Michael is bestselling eco-theologian and speaker whose work has been featured on TEDx, the New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Was…

Paganism: The Little Religion That Could Have Been

August 29, 2018 John Halstead Climate Change, end of the world, Environmentalism, Natural Pagans, Paganism, The Allergic Pagan

I’m not blaming Paganism for the end of the world as we know it. Well, not entirely.

How a Hobbit Would Celebrate the Summer Solstice

June 20, 2017 John Halstead Climate Change, fire, Frodo, global warming, hobbits, J.R.R. Tolkien, light, litha, Lord of the Rings, Midsummer, Natural Pagans, pagan, Sauron, Scourging of the Shire, Shadow, shadows, Shire, The Allergic Pagan, The Hobbit, Wheel of the Year

When we light our solstice fire this year, I will be thinking of shadows. I will be thinking of ruined landscapes. And I will be thinking of Hobbits. Little people who took up farm tools and kitchen implements and drove out the shadow of desolation from their homes.

A Season of Possibility

February 10, 2017 John Halstead Change, Climate Change, Community, Earthseed

This is the season of possibility. I see a lot of possibility for Earthseed. Here’s some of the things I see on our horizon.