Cosmic Calendar Special
Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar maps the entire history of our cosmos onto a single year. You can follow the entire calendar here at Humanistic Paganism. As you imagine, things speed up considerably as...
View ArticleMusings of a Pagan Mythicist, by Maggie Jay Lee: “Michael Dowd and Religion 3.0″
I would like to share with you a video by Michael Dowd titled “Religion 3.0: Inspiring Science, Realistic Hope”. Michael Dowd is a naturalistic Christian and the author of Thank God for Evolution. He...
View ArticleA Naturalistic Creed, by B. T. Newberg
Editor’s note: Recently, Maggie Jay Lee wrote here about Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution, and his naturalistic creed. In the comments to Lee’s essay, our own B. T. Newberg offered the...
View Article“Godlessness and the Sacred Universe” by Crafter Yearly
My experience of the divine is not grounded in some external personality or authority. But the values I came to hold in Pagan community and the energy states I experienced in Pagan practice thoroughly...
View Article“Gaia’s Heartbeat: practicing empathy for the Mother of us all” by Brandon...
This essay was first published at the SolSeed blog. According to James Lovelock’s popular Gaia hypothesis, all life on Earth, in combination with the geochemical cycles it interacts with, can be...
View ArticleGrandmother Fish – a Fun Way to Introduce our Evolutionary History to Kids!
Grandmother Fish is a delightful new book that teaches our evolutionary history to kids as young as preschool, and its call-and-response structure makes it perfect for public reading. Listen as the...
View ArticleMy Favorite Ritual Tool, by Mark Green [an Atheopagan Life]
It’s common for humans to have things with symbolic meaning…what we often call “sentimental value”. Atheopagans are just more deliberate about it, and conscious of how to use these associations for our...
View ArticleDNA Testing: Making Ancestor Worship a Science! by Renee Lehnen
When people learn about their DNA, they strengthen their ties to our great big 7 billion member human family. Each and every one of us is the child of sturdy people who survived plagues, war, bad hair...
View ArticleHail, the Magnificent Sun!, by Mark Green [an Atheopagan Life]
These are the kindest and best of days. The evenings grow long, the air is mild. Here where I live, anyway, life is good. For our ancestors, too, these were good days. Planting and early tending of...
View ArticlePotok and the Hundred-Thousand Year Fire—A Campfire Tale, by Mark Green [an...
There was a night—long, long ago—when we had captured fire. This was many years before we knew how to make it. We found it in a tree which had been struck by lightning, carried it in a gourd to where...
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