The Life and Thoughts of a Modern Day American Heathen

Are Yule Logs Unethical?

Posted by on Jan 27, 2010 in Environment, Heathenism, Nature, News, Paganism, Polytheism, Religion | 4 comments

(Now that Jól is past I have had time to reflect on what the holiday means to me. I have also had time to reflect on various environmental...

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Organic Religion

Posted by on Dec 26, 2009 in Entertainment, Environment, General, Movie Review, Nature, Paganism, Religion, Spirituality | 7 comments

Yes, Virginia, there is a world without soul-destroying alien sky gods, and it is grand. I’m talking about Pandora. It’s not a real...

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Heathens and the Environment

Posted by on Nov 22, 2009 in Environment, Heathenism, Nature, Paganism, Polytheism | 5 comments

I recently read James Hoggan’s Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming (2009) and am about to begin Stephen H....

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Tiw’s Day Thoughts (and some violations of nature)

Posted by on Oct 14, 2009 in Environment, Heathenism, Nature, Paganism, Polytheism, Religion | 3 comments

I went outside this weekend and watched my neighbor annihilating the trees behind his house. I do mean that literally. I had been enjoying...

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Custer, Global Warming, and the Truth

Posted by on Sep 11, 2009 in Environment, history, Nature, Science | 9 comments

I read Dr. Peter Gleick’s review of Bjorn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist. I recommend it (the review) to everyone....

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More Extreme Earth

Posted by on Sep 10, 2009 in Environment, Nature, Science | 4 comments

It just never ends. Having been visited by a couple of “contrarians” (aka “deniers”) following my post...

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