Pagan Bloggers with Naturalistic Worldviews
It has taken me years to experience any clarity around my religious identity. I grew up attending Catholic mass but knew from an early age that I wouldn’t continue, once I had a choice. In adulthood I’ve cycled through Protestant, atheistic, New Age, Buddhist, Unitarian Universalist, and Pagan approaches to religion, in roughly that order. A… Continue reading Exploring mystery, trying on labels →
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Autumn Equinox 2018 approaches; time for a pulse check. What’s unfolding with the living world where I am? Daylight hours are noticeably decreasing. In summer months I can see sunlight beginning to peak over the horizon when I arrive for my shifts around 6:30a, but now it’s still twilight when I walk in to the… Continue reading Approaching Autumn Equinox in Austin →
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In the Northern Hemisphere, the Fall Equinox is celebrated in less than three weeks (it is September 22nd this year in the United States, but on the 23rd in Europe) as Mabon, also called Harvest Home. (Those in the Southern Hemisphere celebrate…
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I’m not blaming Paganism for the end of the world as we know it. Well, not entirely.
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Some say bluntly that there is no afterlife. That our lives are a “one-way trip.” Easy to assert, because it’s almost certainly true. Anyone else remember those care-free slogans of the 2008 Atheist Bus Campaign? “There probably is no god. Now stop worrying. And enjoy your life.” Photo by Dan Etherington via Wikimedia Commons Ah, if… Continue reading Some stories are better than others →
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She thought she could now actually feel the Earth turn–not just imagine it in her head, but really feel it in the pit of her stomach. It was like descending in a fast elevator. She craned her neck back further,…
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A single, recognizable symbol for an idea, movement or spiritual path is important – both because it is a quick way to convey a lot of information, as well as because it helps group cohesion form. Of course, symbols, like…
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One of my favorite Reclaiming traditions is Waters of the World, the practice of collecting small containers of water for ritual use from the oceans, rivers, lakes, creeks, and springs that we visit. A bowl filled with Waters of the World makes a great centerpiece in rituals related to healing of self, community, or earth,… Continue reading Tools for Practice: Waters of the World →
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John Halstead recently called for a Pagan prophet, someone who could unite naturalists and supernaturalists, someone to “come along to lead modern Pagans out of the wilderness of superstition and self-absorption.” John’s role, as he states, is the role of the critic, not the prophet, but he suggests a list of other Pagan writers who… Continue reading Call and Response: Paganism Needs a Shared Telos →
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