A growing number of Britons who leave Christianity are turning to paganism or other forms of spiritualism instead of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these ...

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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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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, ...