Mark Green

Atheopagan Events at Pantheacon 2019 [UPDATED!]

Fri, Jan 11, 2019

Mark Green

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Atheopagan, Events

Though we were disappointed that Atheopagan submissions for presentation at Pantheacon weren’t accepted to the official schedule this year, that’s not slowing us down! We have three events scheduled in hospitality suites this year, including the popular annual Nontheist Pagan Mixer. The events are: FACING FORWARD: A talk on nontheist…

Talking Paganism in the Mainstream

Tue, Jan 08, 2019

Mark Green

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Opinion, Politics

Ross Douthat, conservative columnist for the New York Times, has stirred some Pagan feathers with a column arguing that rather than becoming fully secular, the US may be moving away from a transcendentalist religiosity (such as that of Christianity and Judaism) and towards “paganism”, which he describes…

A Community Project: Choosing a Charitable Cause for Atheopagan Support

Tue, Jan 08, 2019

Mark Green

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Principles, Atheopagan

Atheopaganism isn’t just for its practitioners. As noted in Atheopagan Principle 8, we understand our responsibility to our societies and to future generations. Accordingly, I thought it would be a good thing for all of us, as a community, to identify a charitable cause to support in…

The State of the Path: Atheopaganism in 2019

Sun, Jan 06, 2019

Mark Green

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Pagan, Atheopagan

Atheopaganism is a particular spiritual/religious path: a subset of both Paganism and atheism. There are other atheistic Pagan paths, so ours isn’t the only one, but our particular path has now existed for ten years and has been steadily growing for five. I thought that for my first post of…

Closing the Door with Gratitude

Mon, Dec 31, 2018

Mark Green

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Personal Reflection

2018 was rough for me. I was unemployed the whole time, begging and borrowing to stay under a roof. It was necessary, but it filled me with shame and embarrassment. I had a series of near-misses with job seeking, finishing second repeatedly. In one case, it seemed I was the…

Favorite Atheopaganism Posts of 2018

Thu, Dec 27, 2018

Mark Green

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Personal Reflection

2018 was a hard year. But I did get some writing done. I published more than 100 posts to the Atheopagan website this year on a wide range of topics. In celebration of the New Year, here are thirteen of my favorites, in no particular order:…