Mark Green

Community Conduct Standards

Sun, Jan 16, 2022

Mark Green

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Atheopagan

ATHEOPAGAN COMMUNITY CONDUCT STANDARDS and GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE Conduct As Atheopagans, we endeavor to create an environment which is safe, responsible, and egalitarian. We celebrate inclusion, diversity, love, kindness and mutual respect. Atheopagan events, online spaces, and gatherings should be guided by the 13 Atheopagan Principles, including most specifically…

Reciprocity vs. the Overculture

Fri, Jan 07, 2022

Mark Green

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Principles, Atheology

I’ve been thinking a lot about the Overculture lately: how the dominant values and paradigms of our societies inform how we think, how we speak, and what we do. For a discussion of all that, I invite you to listen to this week’s episode of THE…

My Top Ten from 2021

Mon, Dec 27, 2021

Mark Green

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Opinion, Pagan, Practice, Sabbaths, Atheopagan, Personal Reflection

The year is drawing down, and it’s time to take a look back at what we’ve published and pick some favorites! Here, in no particular order, are my favorite ten blog posts of 2021. If you have a favorite that isn’t on the list, please comment below!…

Approaching Sixty

Fri, Dec 03, 2021

Mark Green

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Rites of Passage, Personal Reflection

A month from today, I will reach 60 years of age. I can’t believe it, honestly. I still feel 35. Where has all that time gone? Now, I’m aware that I can’t look at this dispassionately. A combination of the American cult of youth and the very real fact of…

If You Give Gifts at this Time of Year…

Tue, Nov 23, 2021

Mark Green

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Sabbaths

Why not consider some of the great suggestions Jon Cleland Host has over at Naturalistic Paganism? Remember, too, that we are coming to the end of 2021, when our Atheopagan Chosen Charity has been BLACK LIVES MATTER. All proceeds from the Atheopagan…

You Have Permission to be Witchy

Sat, Nov 20, 2021

Mark Green

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Practice, Atheology

All of us in the nontheist/SASS*/Atheopagan sphere start out having to contend with that pesky internal Critic Voice that says, as we begin to move out of our ordinary mental states and towards creating or participating in ritual, “THIS IS STUPID. YOU’RE MAKING A FOOL…