Mark Green's Atheopaganism Blog

Living an Earth-Honoring Path Rooted in Science

Sun, Feb 09, 2025 Mark Green Activism , Practice , Sabbaths , Politics , Rites of Passage , Ritual 1 Comment

It’s a natural impulse: what, right now, is the damned point?*

What’s the point of spirituality, of religion? What’s the point of personal rituals and seasonal celebrations, of rites of passage?

With things as they are, why bother with things like mythopoetic expression?

And I am here ...

Sun, Jan 19, 2025 Mark Green Activism , Atheopagan , Politics No comments

The cruelty will be the point. The incompetence, we get for free.

Today is the last day of the Joe Biden Presidency in the US. By all factual accounts, Biden has done a sterling job: orchestrating a “soft landing” for the US economy after the plunge of the pandemic, shrinking unemployment and...

Sat, Dec 21, 2024 Mark Green Sabbaths 2 Comments

The longest night is here (in the northern hemisphere)! May your celebrations be warm and joyous, filled with love and comfort. Good wishes to you from me this holiday season!

Thu, Nov 21, 2024 Mark Green Sabbaths , Ritual 2 Comments

A crafting project for a fun countdown to Midwinter, the winter solstice. Check it out!

Instructions, images to paste behind the windows of your calendar, and complementary teaching guide are all here.

Sun, Nov 10, 2024 Mark Green Atheopagan , Politics 3 Comments

The return of Donald Trump and his appalling gang of fascistic cronies to power will have worldwide impacts. There no other way to put this: those of us with decent, kind and life-affirming values are decidedly out of power in the United States as of January 20, 2025, and the likely environmenta...

Mon, Nov 04, 2024 Mark Green Sabbaths , Politics 3 Comments

It’s the night before the most important US Presidential election of my lifetime.

The entire world has a stake in the outcome: a decent and adequate leader with sound values and qualifications versus a mad, incoherent, hateful man obsessed with prosecuting his grievances and who has surrounde...