Mark Green's Atheopaganism Blog: Personal Reflection

NATURALISTIC PAGANISM: A Challenge to the Paradigms of the Overculture

Sun, Jan 15, 2023

Mark Green

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Opinion, Pagan, Atheopagan

A Presentation to the 2023 Conference on Current Pagan Studies: January 15, 2023 THANKS for inviting me to present to the 19th annual Conference on Current Pagan Studies! I’d like to extend my appreciation to the organizers and co-creators of this event. We live in times of deep crises: Effects…

Ad Astra

Fri, Nov 25, 2022

Mark Green

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Personal Reflection

I was six. We lived on the West Coast, so we had to get up early to see it. Grainy, on a small-screen, huge-bodied black and white television full of vacuum tubes, the mighty rocket standing, and the countdown… “…4…3…2…1…LIFTOFF We have LIFTOFF of Apollo Seven!” It was 1968.

GUEST POST: This is Not My Beautiful House

Wed, Sep 21, 2022

Mark Green

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Personal Reflection

A guest post by JD Stillwater: ©JD Stillwater 2022 | jdstillwater.earth My spouse and I have a beautiful house here in central Pennsylvania. Our names are on the deed, but it is not our house. No, this is not a post in which I confess to forgery or identity theft.

A Pagan in a Christianized Society

Sun, Aug 21, 2022

Mark Green

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Opinion, Personal Reflection

We discussed many of the ideas in this post in this week’s episode of THE WONDER podcast–check it out! Being a Pagan often isn’t easy–and especially being a naturalistic Pagan, in a world dominated by an Overculture that…

Knowledge, Understanding, and Anti-Colonialism

Thu, Aug 11, 2022

Mark Green

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Opinion

I am an anti-colonialist and anti-racist. This is a life commitment I have made and, though as for all people raised in a culture steeped in white supremacy and racism it is hard work to try to get beyond them, it is joyful work, even when it is hard. If…

A Reminder

Wed, Jun 29, 2022

Mark Green

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Personal Reflection

These are hard times. We have a global climate crisis, a global health crisis, rising authoritarianism and cruelty. Simply reading the daily news can be a real challenge to our mental health and well being. All of this is true. You struggle with it. I struggle with it. And…