Mark Green's Atheopaganism Blog: Practice

Mendicant Traditions and the Accumulation of Wealth

Wed, May 28, 2025

Mark Green

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Opinion, Practice, Ritual

A mendicant is a beggar: a poor person who importunes others for money or other material support. In Pagandom, we remember many holiday traditions rooted in mendicant practices. This post is about the special wonders of traditions involving house-to-house beggary, and the deeper meanings associated with many of them. I’m…

Gone A-Maying

Sun, Apr 27, 2025

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Sabbaths

Joyous, pleasurable, a little transgressive, and underneath all that, sacred. That’s May Day to me. Historically in Europe, May Day was the beginning of summer–the time when freezes were generally over and spring foliage was leafing out. It was the time of the custom of “going…

It’s Even More Important Now

Sun, Feb 09, 2025

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Activism, Practice, Sabbaths, Politics, Rites of Passage, Ritual

It’s a natural impulse: what, right now, is the damned point?* What’s the point of spirituality, of religion? What’s the point of personal rituals and seasonal celebrations, of rites of passage? With things as they are, why bother with things like mythopoetic expression? And I am here to tell…

Happy Midwinter/Yule/Solstice!

Sat, Dec 21, 2024

Mark Green

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Sabbaths

The longest night is here (in the northern hemisphere)! May your celebrations be warm and joyous, filled with love and comfort. Good wishes to you from me this holiday season!…

It’s Time to Make Your Atheopagan “Advent” Calendar!

Thu, Nov 21, 2024

Mark Green

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Sabbaths, Ritual

A crafting project for a fun countdown to Midwinter, the winter solstice. Check it out! Instructions, images to paste behind the windows of your calendar, and complementary teaching guide are all here.

Anxiety Eve

Mon, Nov 04, 2024

Mark Green

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Sabbaths, Politics

It’s the night before the most important US Presidential election of my lifetime. The entire world has a stake in the outcome: a decent and adequate leader with sound values and qualifications versus a mad, incoherent, hateful man obsessed with prosecuting his grievances and who has…