Praise Mama. Grok Earth. Thou art Goddess.
This past weekend, I marched with about 200,000 other people in the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. Together with other members of 350 Indiana-Calumet, I helped organize a bus of about 50 people from Northwest and Northcentral Indiana to attend the D.C. march. Continue reading “Marching from Day 1 to Day 100”
For many contemporary Pagans, Paganism takes the form of a nature religion or earth-centered spirituality. According to Religious Studies scholar, Michael York, a nature religion is one that has “a this-worldly focus and deep reverence for the earth as something sacred and something to be cherished.” Not surprisingly then, Earth Day (April 22 this year) is a holy day for many Pagans. Here are some ways that we Pagans can celebrate Earth Day. Continue reading “Eight Ways Pagans Can Celebrate Earth Day”
My seasonal allergies mean that at those times of the year I most want to be surrounded by nature, it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to do so. This irony is a metaphor for an essential conflict at the core of my psyche, between the desire for communion with nature on the one hand and the desire to transcend nature on the other.
The Allergic Pagan 