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.

Effective Atheopagan Leadership: a Curriculum

Posted on 2018-12-01 by Mark Green

As I’ve written before, my conceptualization of Atheopaganism as a path and a tradition does not incorporate concepts of degrees of advancement, or “clergy” as an elevated status within the religion. I just find such hierarchies to be fraught with too … Continue reading →

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Noble Ancestors

Posted on 2018-11-27 by Mark Green

We have our real ancestors–blood relations, going all the way back to single-celled organisms if we go back far enough.  But there are also those now dead whom we admire for their exemplary qualities: their courage, their intelligence, their wisdom. … Continue reading →

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Yuletide: A Compendium

Posted on 2018-11-24 by Mark Green

Over the years, I’ve posted quite a bit about my Atheopagan Yule traditions. I thought I’d pull links to them together here for easy reference. Yule, overlapping so heavily with the Christian/secular holiday of Christmas, is a time when many … Continue reading →

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Happy Wolfenoot!

Posted on 2018-11-23 by Mark Green

Some time ago, I wrote about non-Sabbath holidays: special days we celebrate other than the 8 observances of the Wheel of the Year. These can be anything we find meaningful, whimsical, or important to remember. This year, a 7-year-old boy invented Wolfenoot, a … Continue reading →

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Let Us Give Thanks

Posted on 2018-11-20 by Mark Green

In the United States, this is the week of the annual secular holiday Thanksgiving, coming up on Thursday the 22nd. Originating with the Michaelmas harvest celebrations of England, the American Thanksgiving is rooted in the mythologizing of a harvest feast … Continue reading →

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Forging Paths of Integrity (with Minor Update)

Posted on 2018-11-16 by Mark Green

There has been a lot of talk online lately about the Pagan (or neopagan, if you prefer) community* and integrity, or lack thereof. Stuff about “fakelore” traditions and lineages: pretense of ancient roots that aren’t, and people using this pretense … Continue reading →

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