Mark Green

Mendicant Traditions and the Accumulation of Wealth

Wed, May 28, 2025

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Opinion, Practice, Ritual

A mendicant is a beggar: a poor person who importunes others for money or other material support. In Pagandom, we remember many holiday traditions rooted in mendicant practices. This post is about the special wonders of traditions involving house-to-house beggary, and the deeper meanings associated with many of them. I’m…

Gone A-Maying

Sun, Apr 27, 2025

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Sabbaths

Joyous, pleasurable, a little transgressive, and underneath all that, sacred. That’s May Day to me. Historically in Europe, May Day was the beginning of summer–the time when freezes were generally over and spring foliage was leafing out. It was the time of the custom of “going…

Create Your Own Atheopagan Gathering!

Sat, Apr 05, 2025

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Events

What I know is this: the gatherings are lovely. Good people, good humor, intelligent conversation, kind values. The kind of people I am proud to call friends. The Atheopagan Society has now produced two in-person events for Atheopagans: the Suntree Retreats, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

Sacred Turbulence

Sun, Mar 02, 2025

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Politics, Personal Reflection, Uncategorized

I have a predilection for watching trees sway in wind. Understanding that under the hypnotic dance, swaying resiliently against the buffets of air, there is extraordinary chaos mathematics: that the raised arms of the trees as if to pray to the Sun–for, after all, isn’t that what they are doing?–…

It’s Even More Important Now

Sun, Feb 09, 2025

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Activism, Practice, Sabbaths, Politics, Rites of Passage, Ritual

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 to tell…

Keeping the Flame Alive

Sun, Jan 19, 2025

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Activism, Atheopagan, Politics

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…