Is calling someone a “pagan” a bad thing or a badge of honor? Do we even know what the term means? Those questions were prompted by a recent speech by Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput in which ...
A growing number of Britons who leave Christianity are turning to paganism or other forms of spiritualism instead of ...
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Paganism” is a word with which to conjure. From The Iliad to the Wicker Man, it has been part of Western culture, and has in ...
As a public representative of paganism, I frequently talk to people who feel drawn to pagan religions but aren’t sure if paganism is the right fit for them. As minority belief systems, the specifics ...
(RNS) — In anticipation of its 50th anniversary, the landmark film’s ‘director’s cut’ was released Wednesday in time for the solstice, a major pagan holiday. (RNS) — The sun crests in the northern sky ...
(RNS) — On Sunday (May 1), some localities put up a traditional Maypole, named a May Queen and made flower crowns. Many modern pagans also celebrated the height of spring. But one community’s vernal ...
As our society fractures into hostile factions without any apparent glue to hold them together, it is an appropriate time to consider our culture’s embrace of “diversity.” Diversity is now the raison ...
Paganism is an umbrella term for a range of polytheistic Earth-based forms of worship. Popularized in the 1960s and 70s in part through the Church of All Worlds, Paganism in the United States is a ...
We tend to think of Christianity over against paganism in the Roman empire but we have to be a little bit cautious about what we mean by paganism. First of all paganism itself is really not a religion ...
Shortly before he was admitted to Oxford University in 1916 to study English literature, C. S. Lewis, a recent convert to atheism, got into an argument with a friend about Christianity and its ...
Were it not for its proximity to Christmas, Hanukkah would be unknown to most non-Jews and it would not be celebrated by most non-religious Jews. The proof is that the other post-Hebrew Bible holiday, ...