Author Archives: Mark Green

About Mark Green

Author of ATHEOPAGANISM: An Earth-Honoring Path Rooted in Science, Mark Green is the initiator of the Atheopagan path and editor at the Atheopaganism blog. With co-host Yucca, he records the weekly podcast The Wonder: Science-Based Paganism, makes YouTube videos, and creates materials and resources for practicing Atheopagans. He volunteers as a staffer to the Atheopagan Council to support the growth of Atheopaganism throughout the world. In his home of Sonoma County, California, in the occupied ancestral lands of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples, he is best known as an activist and founder of Sonoma County Conservation Action, the largest environmental activism group by membership on the North Coast of California.

Happy Midwinter/Yule/Solstice!

Posted on 2024-12-21 by Mark Green

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!

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

Posted on 2024-11-21 by Mark Green

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

Posted on 2024-11-10 by Mark Green

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 … Continue reading →

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Anxiety Eve

Posted on 2024-11-04 by Mark Green

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 … Continue reading →

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Solemn, Meaningful, Fun, Creepy

Posted on 2024-10-31 by Mark Green

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

Posted on 2024-10-27 by Mark Green

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 … Continue reading →

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