
Ancient Hellenic Pagans didn’t acknowledge conflict between science and religion.* Yet we are quite familiar with their old myths: Homer and Hesiod have left us an immortal poetic heritage, full of woo and unlikelihoods, where the Gods are more hysterical…
Read More2012 Thing on Thursday #8 Last week’s poll on creating sacred space yielded some surprising results: a leading response was “purifying the space.” This is puzzling because “purification” was not favored at all on our earlier liturgical elements poll. It…
Read More– by B. T. Newberg Looking over our list of contributors here at HP, we have an imperfect, but not terrible, balance of the sexes: about 1/3 women to 2/3 men. The GLBT demographic is fairly well-represented. We’ve also got…
Read More– by B. T. Newberg The following Samhain ritual is an attempt at developing an order of ritual rooted wholly in naturalistic perspectives. The language of the script emphasizes non-metaphysical, natural terms and processes. It’s broad enough to work for…
Read MoreAre you aware of green burial options? Antal introduces us to two today: promession and resomation. – editor Today, our after-death disposition choices in the U.S. are almost exclusively limited to cremation and burial. When most people think of burial,…
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