Naturalistic Paganism

Grandmother 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 book is read live at a Unitarian Universalist church story hour in this short video! Kids hoot, squeak, and laugh. The energy in the room builds up step by step. The kids start out wiggling like Grandmother Fish, and they end up wiggling, chomping, crawling, breathing, squeaking, cuddling, grabbing, hooting, walking, and talking like Grandmother Human.  For those of us who, like me, find spiritual energy in our Ancestors, this is a wonderful experience.  Here it is, just in time for school!

Here’s the webpage, and Amazon link.

 

 

My Name is Medusa – A New Children’s book arrives!

Glenys Livingstone, Ph.D. brings us a wonderfully empowering children’s book!  I’ll start off with a short review by a child, and then leave the more in depth adult discussion after that.  Enjoy! Read More

Announcing Dead Ideas: The Podcast of Extinct Thoughts and Practices, by B. T. Newberg

Today I want to introduce you to a project I’ve been working on that I think will be right up the alley of my fellow Pagans.

We Pagans are book people. We have an itch for history – especially odd, little-known, out-of-the-way history. This September 6th, you can scratch that itch. Read More

Honoring our Ancestors – Racism Rears it’s head, by Lupa Greenwolf & Jon Cleland Host

Maybe it’s the current political atmosphere, or maybe it’s just a coincidence, but open racism has shown up in our wider Pagan community, and that warrants a mention of it here.  As many have already seen, the Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) posted racist comments on it’s facebook page.  Lupa Greenwolf does a great job covering the main points, so all I’ll add are some additional thoughts below her blog post here.

Here’s Lupa’s Post:

Not in my Pagansim.

So for those who aren’t already aware, Read More

“The Democracy of Living Things”, by Brock Haussamen

It’s very easy to feel that as human beings we enjoy a privileged position among living things. We are at the top of the “brain chain” and it can make us complacent. So, perhaps because it’s an election season, I’ve found myself drawn to a political metaphor that offers a much flatter vision of the organic world. It may even come with its own short bill of rights.

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