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FACING FORWARD: A talk on nontheist Paganism

Thu, Feb 21, 2019
Mark Green
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Opinion, Pagan

This talk was originally delivered at Pantheacon 2019. Let’s start with a question: what’s happening with religion today? It’s an amazing time to be involved with religion, because in the developed world, the Abrahamic religions are collapsing. As philosopher of religion Eric Steinhart says, this may be the most exciting…

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Abuse, the Pagan Community, and Our Commitments

Tue, Feb 12, 2019
Mark Green
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Pagan, Atheopagan, Sexuality

Sarah Anne Lawless, who published these two revelatory articles on her experiences of being sexually harassed and abused within the Pagan community (mostly in Canada and the Pacific Northwest), has now published a third piece. In it, she reports the truly horrifying blowback she received for daring to name this…

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Approaching Pantheacon

Mon, Feb 11, 2019
Mark Green
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Pagan, Atheopagan

So, next week I will go to Pantheacon 2019. I am a volunteer on staff, which is how I am able to afford to go. I always have mixed feelings about going. Part of me is excited to see friends, meet new ones, and share Atheopaganism with others. Part of…

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Mainstreaming, Pt. 2

Fri, Jan 25, 2019
Mark Green
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Pagan, Atheopagan

Some weeks ago, I wrote about how Paganism is having a moment in the sun, and mainstream culture is noticing us. If nothing else, take as evidence the eternally fluffy and pop-culturey Huffington Post’s article about encountering Pagans. Seems pretty clear that between sugary…

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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…

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The New Ones

Wed, Dec 26, 2018
Mark Green
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Pagan

Much has been made in both the popular and Pagan press recently about the “witchcraft fad”. There is lots of witchy imagery in media and popular culture right now, including fashion, television, film and literature. Witchcraft, so they say, is having a moment. And not just in the media,…

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