One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to become an ecological voice in your community. Start by talking with your family and friends. Make it personal. Don’t rant. Talk about what matters to you. Talk about what in your life is threatened by the climate crisis. And when they are ready, talk with them about taking action. Read more
Direct action means strikes, demonstrations, or other public forms of protest. If you're like me, and new to direct action, then here are some resources you can use. Read more
One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to vote responsibly. Voting responsibly means knowing how your elected officials are influenced by big money. Campaign politics tends to focus on issues: where the candidates say they stand. But we all know that politicians will say a lot of things to get elected. And we also know that politics is really driven by campaign contributions. But few of us know how our own elected officials are influenced by money. Here's how you can find out where your elected officials get their money. Read more
While many Pagans today believe in literal gods, there are a growing number of Pagans who are “godless.” Today, the diverse assemblage of spiritual paths known as Paganism includes atheist Pagans or Atheopagans, Human- istic and Naturalistic Pagans, Buddho-Pagans, animists, pantheists, Gaians, and other non-theistic Pagans. Here for the first time, their voices are gathered together to share what it means to be Pagan and godless. Read more
Individual consumers do not have the power to change the system. The system is driven by big money. So the way to change the system is to take away the money. One thing you can do to honor the Earth this Earth Day is to support divestment from fossil fuels. This means demanding that large organizations which we support -- like businesses, universities, churches, employers with retirement funds, etc. -- no longer invest their money in the fossil fuel industry, and instead invest their money in ecologically responsible ways. Read more
What good are words, after all, when what we need is action? Here's three reasons why I think we need a collective statement on the environment: Read more
Help us get 10,000 signatures by Earth Day 2016 (April 22) for “A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment”. Read more
I have officially handed over the reigns of HumanisticPaganism.com to Jon Cleland Host. The truth is that Jon has already been managing things behind the scenes for a while now and has been doing a great job. Jon is uniquely qualified to take over as Managing Editor of HP. He is the founder of the Naturalistic Paganism Yahoo discussion group, which was the first online resource for our community. Together with his wife, Heather, Jon writes a column at HP.... Read more
The claim that Jungians can't be Pagan ignores the (at least) thousands of Pagans who hold an archetypalist view of the gods. What's more, it ignores almost 50 years of contemporary Pagan history. I get the impression that some people think that I invented Jungian polytheism. In fact, Jungian interpretations of the gods of polytheism were popularized by many popular Pagan writers over a period of decades, long before I called myself Pagan. Read more
American Gods reflected -- and probably magnified -- a dissatisfaction among many Pagans with popular forms of Paganism. And it offered one possible alternative: literal belief in the gods and devotional forms of worship. Popular Paganism was failing to produce the kind deep religious experiences that many of Pagans craved, and devotional polytheism promised to answer that craving. Read more
The Allergic Pagan
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