Responsibility – Page 4

How the larger community sees altars and why it matters, by Lexi Phillips

January 11, 2021 NaturalisticPaganism Bart Everson, Gaia/Earth, HP, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan, Responsibility

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…

Holiday Gift Ideas for Naturalistic Pagans, 2020

November 21, 2020 NaturalisticPaganism Book Review, HP, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan, Practice, Responsibility, Seasonal, Seasonal Themes, wonder

Many of us Gen-Xer’s learned critical thinking and the need to look for rational explanations for supernatural claims from this lovable dog.

On “coming out” to my Catholic Community, by Bart Everson [A Pedagogy of Gaia]

November 7, 2020 NaturalisticPaganism Bart Everson, Gaia/Earth, HP, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan, Responsibility

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…

Autumn 2020: Responsibility and Wonder; by Starstuff, Contemplating

September 30, 2020 NaturalisticPaganism ancestors, Ancient and Modern Paganism, atheist pagan, Earth religion, HP, Intellect, Jon Cleland Host, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan, naturalistic paganism, Nature, nature religion, pantheism, Practice, Religious Naturalism, Responsibility, science and god, science and myth, Science and Religion, Spiritual Naturalism, Starstuff, Contemplating

Wonder and responsibility speak to me as we enter fall. As Naturalistic Pagans, our focus is on this real world – giving us both the awe of the world we live in and the commitment to build a better world…

The Next 70 Days are Critical – What can you do to help? by Starstuff, Contemplating

August 23, 2020 HumanisticPaganism ancestors, Ancient and Modern Paganism, atheist pagan, Earth religion, HP, Intellect, Jon Cleland Host, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan, naturalistic paganism, Nature, nature religion, pantheism, Practice, Religious Naturalism, Responsibility, science and god, science and myth, Science and Religion, Spiritual Naturalism, Starstuff, Contemplating

We stand at an historic time, and the upcoming election will determine a lot about the world we will leave to future generations. As Naturalistic Pagans, our focus is on this real world, and we can put our spirituality into…

Light Pollution, by Katerina and William (Science Editorial Team)

April 2, 2020 HumanisticPaganism Atheism and Meaning, Community, Emotion, HP, humanism, inspiration, Intellect, interfaith, Latest Posts, Magic, myth, naturalism, naturalistic pagan, Non-Theistic Religion, Paganism, Responsibility, Science, Science and Religion, Starstuff, Contemplating, Superstition and Reason

Recently, a study was published that named light pollution as one of the factors contributing to the decline in numbers of fireflies worldwide. The abundance of artificial light in the environment is confusing the nocturnal beetles, and can thereby impede…

Announcing our Science Editorial Team!

March 17, 2020 HumanisticPaganism 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,…

Lupa’s Essential Books For Pagans

February 23, 2020 HumanisticPaganism 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?

Pagans Scapegoated Again, this time in the UK – by Starstuff, Contemplating

December 15, 2019 HumanisticPaganism atheism, belief, HP, Jon Cleland Host, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan, Non-Theistic Religion, Responsibility, Starstuff, Contemplating, Superstition and Reason

Pagans again blamed for something they didn’t do? Say it ain’t so, Joe! It’s not a surprise, of course, that Christian privilege means that time after time, non-Christians (especially Pagans, because they can’t be demonized for being foreign) are vilified…

Robbing Fox to Save Rabbit, by Lupa

December 1, 2019 HumanisticPaganism Ancient and Modern Paganism, belief, HP, Intellect, Latest Posts, Lupa, naturalism, naturalistic pagan, Paganism, Psychology, Responsibility, Science, Science and Religion, spirituality, Superstition and Reason

We need to return to an ancestral way in which nature is not an Other, but an Us. If we truly love nature, if we consider ourselves friends to the animals, then we need to know nature itself, through books and observations, through science and questioning. We need to know the rest of nature as well as we know ourselves.