The Dionysian Naturalist

                                                                        Some Social Justice Prayers Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D. The following prayers were originally written in 2017-2018 to accompany my essay “Bearing Witness to Social Injustice as a Spiritual Practice”.  At the time I  was concerned with the process of eyewitnessing things that shouldn't exist and turning that experience into holy work contributing to the advance of social justice.  We were two years into the Trump Administration and I felt as if the arc of the moral universe was no longer bending toward justice. In the midst of this time of increasing suffering one event stood to me: the gathering of five hundred interfaith clergy in Standing Rock to peacefully bear witness to the desecrati...

  BOOK PROSPECTUS A rough working draft THE NEW RELIGION OF NATURE:  HOW A HYBRID OF PAGANISM AND RELIGIOUS NATURALISM, TWO EMERGING EARTH-CENTERED SPIRITUALITIES,  COULD BECOME AN INSURGENT ECO-THEOLOGY AND THE DOMINANT SPIRITUAL ORIENTATION OF UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS AS THESE 200,000 SPIRITUAL ACTIVISTS LAUNCH THE SUSTAINABILITY REVOLUTION OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS 1. Steps Towards a Dionysian Naturalism 2. Enchanting Naturalism 3. Our Universe is a Sacred Living System 4. Dancing with Dionysus: Ecstasy, Naturalism and Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene 5. Nature Religions and Revolutionary Social Change: Advancing a Practical Theology for Spritual Activism 6. Bearing Witness to Social Injustice as a Spiritual Practice 7. Tripping with the Gods: On Entheogenic Spirituality 8. The New Religion of Nature: Creating a Hybrid of Religious Naturalism, Paganism and Druidry (in progress) 9. On the Epic of Evolution (in progress) 10. Naturalizing the Western Esoteric Traditi...