Announcing our Science Editorial Team!

Atheism and Meaning, Community, Emotion, HP, humanism, inspiration, Intellect, interfaith, Jon Cleland Host, Latest Posts, Magic, myth, naturalism, naturalistic pagan, Non-Theistic Religion, Paganism, Responsibility, Science and Religion, Starstuff, Contemplating, Superstition and Reason

Announcing our new Science Editorial Team!  I’m overjoyed at both the response to our call for science input as well as the team we have now as a result! Both the undestanding of science, and especially the respect for evidence,…

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The Spring Equinox Approaches…

HP, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan, Practice, Seasonal

For me, the growing daylight (reinforced by the start of Daylight Savings Time) is a reminder from our Earth itself, one of those many helpful features of our seasons, to begin thinking about, and planning for, the Spring Equinox/Ostara.  Another reminder – one that is rather bizarre – is the appearance of a “warm-blooded” plant that smells like a zombie!

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Lupa’s Essential Books For Pagans

Ancient and Modern Paganism, belief, HP, Intellect, Latest Posts, Lupa, naturalism, naturalistic pagan, Paganism, Psychology, Responsibility, Science, Science and Religion, spirituality, Superstition and Reason

Sorry I’m not handing you yet another rehash of the Wiccan Sabbats or a bunch of spells. Over the past few years my paganism has become much more firmly rooted in the physical, and my reading list reflects that. After all, what good is a nature-based path if you don’t know diddly about nature itself?

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Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, Review by Brock Haussamen

Brock Haussamen, Cosmos, Earth religion, evolution, Gaia/Earth, HP, Latest Posts, life, naturalism, naturalistic pagan, nature religion, Peter Berger, Sacred Canopy, science and god, Science and Religion, wonder

When I read today about reverence for nature, anxiety about the climate, and the fused destinies of humans and the environment, I hear Humboldt loud and clear.

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Institutionalized Elder Care is a Moral and Spiritual Problem – Naturalistic Pagans Can Help Solve It, by Renee Lehnen

Death and Life, Havamal, HP, Latest Posts, naturalism, naturalistic pagan, Norse, Renee Lehnen

Other than criminals, the elderly are the only people who are routinely kept in residential custody in the post-industrial world. The massive, brick edifices of the nineteenth century that housed the parentless, the impoverished, the mentally ill, and the disabled…

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Call for Contributions! Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess (Deadline January 31)

Ancient and Modern Paganism, Book Review, Gaia/Earth, Glenys Livingstone, HP, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan

At the conclusion of each chapter of Journey into Dreamtime there are “Dreamtime Reflections”, posing questions for personal consideration, inviting personal participation and pathways into some actual sense of an alive self in relationship with the alive world described.

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