Mark Green's Atheopaganism Blog: Personal Reflection

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…

Contemplating a Red Moon

Mon, Jan 21, 2019

Mark Green

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Personal Reflection

Last night, 2019’s only lunar eclipse took place: a spectacular “supermoon” eclipse. We watched it from our back yard, watching the Moon slowly darken into a ruddy ball, and then, dramatically, the bright edge of ordinary Sun-lit surface burst into being and steadily reclaim it. Lunar eclipses are really cool.

In Memoriam: Mary Oliver

Thu, Jan 17, 2019

Mark Green

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Personal Reflection

The celebrated poet Mary Oliver has left us at the age of 83. Details of her life and achievements may be found here, but I’d like to say, as an Atheopagan, how meaningful her work was to me, and, I think, to all who find grace and meaning…

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…

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:…