(RNS) — The contemporary pagan community, unlike many traditional religions, has had direct access to its living founders for decades. Now many of those pioneers, born in the 1940s, are “crossing the ...
Despite centuries of suppression, pagan heritage has stubbornly persisted and continues to influence modern beliefs. This ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Ridlon, who practices a form of modern Paganism, lives in a yurt in Portland. Photo by Joseph Ciembroniewicz. Every morning ...
As for rabbits, the timing of their association with Easter also eliminates the possibility that they are a holdover from ...
(RNS) — For days ahead of the official holiday on Monday (Aug. 1), many modern pagans around the world have already been celebrating Lúnasa, the first of three harvest holidays on the modern pagan ...
Not to life or well-being or faith or — make no mistake — a pleasant afterlife. But to the confused morass of ethical and moral issues that unsettle and harass our every waking moment, which we ...
Links between holiday traditions and pagan culture are well established - and occasionally celebrated - but there are also a lot of misconceptions about paganism that make the word itself a bit taboo.
A surprising genealogy of neopaganism. Type “burning times” into any major Internet search engine and you will be engulfed by a host of websites all telling essentially the same tale about the ...
As Paganism’s Popularity Grows in Maine, Leaders Come Together Around an Often Solitary Practice Every morning begins the same for Paul Ridlon, who also goes by Magnus de Rhuddlan. No matter the ...
Every morning begins the same for Paul Ridlon, who also goes by Magnus de Rhuddlan. No matter the weather, he steps out of the round yurt where he lives in Portland and lights incense at his southern ...