Mark Green

Storytelling and the Mythic Landscape

Sat, Aug 20, 2016

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Mythology

Throughout human history, religions have communicated their values and moral codes through storytelling. Both oral traditions and literate societies passed their metaphorical teaching stories from generation to generation. These stories illustrated the values of their cultures, gave explanations for how they had come to exist as distinct groups, and often populated…

Accountability: a Pagan Missing Piece?

Sat, Aug 13, 2016

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Opinion, Sabbaths, Atheology

There’s been some discussion of the concept of “sin” in the Pagan blogosphere lately: here, and here, and my own contribution some time ago, here. Now, I should say: that’s a freighted word for many people, but not so much for…

The Sacred Body

Tue, Aug 02, 2016

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Practice, Atheology

We are unique manifestations of the Universe. Each of us is a roll of a billion dice, a singular event in the history of the Cosmos that has never been before, nor will be again. And what we comprise—all that we are, insofar as the available information would indicate—is of…

Some Language I’m Not Going to Use Any More: An Apology

Sun, Jul 31, 2016

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Pagan, Personal Reflection

This post is an apology. It has now been more than two years since I waded into the broader online Pagan conversation on behalf first of myself, and then of what has turned out to be the many Pagans who do not believe in literal gods. In those early days,…

Summer’s End

Thu, Jul 28, 2016

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Sabbaths

As I celebrate the Wheel of the Year, the midpoint between the summer solstice (Midsummer) and the autumnal equinox (Harvest) is Summer’s End. I call it that because this is the moment when Autumn first becomes detectable in my region: in the angle of the light, in the hard blue of the sky,…

Coming Home to Atheopaganism

Tue, Jul 26, 2016

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Personal Reflection

Honestly, it’s the most heartwarming thing. Because I know the feeling so well: the feeling that I’m the only one, that there must be something wrong with it. That I must have missed something. When I first discovered Paganism in the mid-1980s, an opening in my heart signalled that I…