This is a post from about a year ago, but I've been asked to run it again, so I'm going to:
Reader Jolene writes in and says, "Recently, a woman in our local Pagan community tried to kill herself. Thankfully, she was unsuccessful, and is now getting the help that she needs. What has me wondering is that I've heard a few people saying that her attempted suicide is against Pagan beliefs. I don't want to believe this, but I'm not sure what to...
Wicca Or Not? Confused And Afraid. Thursday, February 9th, 2012 One day I found this book in the library. I don't know how or why but I saw it and it called to me and immediately had to have it. IT was about a teenage girl in the 1700s who was raised... From the experience, I Am a Teen Wiccan
A coven of witches is headed to Union Square with the hopes of raising enough dough to build a permanent home right in Manhattan. According to DNA Info, the members of the Wiccan Family Temple, who are based out of the Lower East Side, are planning the WitchsFest on July 8th, which will include 50 vendors selling items like those found in The Magic Box. Probably. [ more › ]
I’m in Seattle, Washington this weekend, part of the team that’s putting on FaerieCon West, a transformational celebration of music, myth, fantasy, and, of course, faerie. While FaerieCon West, and events like it, are not explicitly Pagan, the openness and embrace of Pagan culture can’t be missed by anyone whose eyes are open to it. While there [...]
Some American law-makers recently characterized Hinduism as pagan. This raises the question: is Hinduism a pagan religion? The Abrahamic religious traditions, as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are collectively called, associate paganism with the worship ...
A community portal about Paganism with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Paganism is a term which, from a western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices of natural or polytheistic religions. The term can be defined broadly, to encompass many or most of the faith...more
A community portal about Paganism with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Paganism is a term which, from a western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices of natural or polytheistic religions. The term can be defined broadly, to encompass many or most of the faith traditions outside the Abrahamic monotheistic group of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This group may include the Dharmic religions, which may be interpreted to incorporate pagan characteristics like nature-worship, polytheism and reverence of female deities, and are thus diametrically opposite to the Abrahamic faiths. "Pagan" is the usual translation of the Islamic term mushrik, which refers to'one who worships something other than The God of Abraham'. Ethnologists avoid the term "paganism," with its uncertain and varied meanings, in referring to traditional or historic faiths, preferring more precise categories such as shamanism, polytheism or animism.