Mark Green's Atheopaganism Blog

Living an Earth-Honoring Path Rooted in Science

It’s Time to Make Your Atheopagan “Advent” Calendar!

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.

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The Resistance Becomes Serious Now

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…

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Anxiety Eve

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…

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Solemn, Meaningful, Fun, Creepy

Happy Hallows, everyone, and may your celebrations be all the things listed in the title! I’m off to go walk in the old rural cemetery……

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What We Turn Back into the Soil, Redux: A Guided Visualization

I improvised this guided meditation for the Atheopagan Saturday Zoom Mixer’s Hallows ritual on the theme I wrote about here, and people liked it so I thought I would write it down before I forgot it. First, get comfortable. Take a deep breath and…

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What We Turn Back into the Soil

It’s Hallows season–Samhain, Halloween, what have you–and my mind turns to mortality, decomposition, recomposition and the great wide Circle of Life. I’ve written a bit about death. Here, about the fact of mortality. Here, about how we can prepare for our…

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