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April 2012

April 30, 2012

A Merry Beltane

Tonight and tomorrow (in the northern hemisphere*) are the traditional dates for many of the...

April 29, 2012

Peter Dybing Retires from Public Paganism

On Saturday, Peter Dybing, current president of Officers of Avalon, and former First Officer of the Covenant of...

April 28, 2012

Two Kinds of Witchcraft? Resisting Cynicism, False Dilemmas, and Moral Panics.

For several years I've been asking the question of what do we do when the...

April 27, 2012

Katrina “Foxglove” Kessler 1989 – 2012

On April 21st, Katrina Kessler, known by many in the Pagan community as Foxglove, passed...

April 26, 2012

Should Fatal Encounters Fill in the Blanks on Witchcraft Slaying?

Through 2010, and into the beginning of 2011, I covered the case of Angela Sanford,...

April 25, 2012

Beliefnet News Conflates Paganism and Harry Potter with Witchcraft Killings

A good news blogger will often try to spot trends and underlying issues in the...

April 24, 2012

The Wild Hunt Podcast, Episode 3: Pagan Chants and Pagan Documentaries

Welcome to the latest installment of a new supplemental feature here at The Wild Hunt, The...

April 23, 2012

“No School is Being Told to Teach About Paganism” in Cornwall

Last week I deconstructed the Daily Mail’s sensationalist assertions regarding the teaching of Paganism in British...

April 22, 2012

A Happy (Pagan) Earth Day to You!

"No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in...

April 21, 2012

Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)

There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes...

April 20, 2012

Rep. Mary Franson Fights the Green Dragon!

This Sunday is Earth Day. Originally spearheaded in 1970 by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson as a national“teach-in” on...

April 19, 2012

American Nuns, Radical Feminism, and the Fear of “Another Religion”

"I loved the Church for Christ made visible. Not for itself, because it was so...

April 18, 2012

Pagan Community Notes: A Pagan Library in DC, A COG Council’s Uncertain Future, Z. Budapest Asserts Copyright, and More!

Pagan Community Notes is a companion to my usual Pagan News of Note series, more focused on...

April 17, 2012

Updates: Teaching Paganism, Passive Distribution, Library Filtering, and Project Conversion

Here are some updates on stories The Wild Hunt has reported on previously. Teaching Paganism...

April 16, 2012

Details of John Friend’s “Blazing Solar Flames” Coven Emerge

Since February, I've been keeping a close eye on the fall of John Friend, founder of...

April 15, 2012

Teaching Paganism in British Schools?

Muck-raking (and hugely successful) British tabloid The Daily Mail reports on the Standing Advisory Council for...

April 14, 2012

The Blog Post About How There’s No Blog Post Today

Patheos (the official host of this blog) is making a grand shift in its design,...

April 13, 2012

Buncombe County Schools Passes New Religion Policy

Last night the Buncombe County School Board in North Carolina unanimously passed a policy regarding prayer, religious...

April 12, 2012

Tennessee’s “Monkey Bill” Becomes Law and other Pagan News of Note

Top Story: On Saturday, I wrote about the impending enaction of a bill in Tennessee...

April 11, 2012

Will Santa Muerte Spark a New Moral Panic?

Joseph Laycock, scholar and author of "Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism," examines media coverage...

April 10, 2012

Quick Notes: Margot Adler, Marijuana Sacraments, and Fortune Telling as Free Speech

Just a few quick news notes for you on this Tuesday. Margot Alder on Witchcraft,...

April 09, 2012

The Occult Experience & Pagan Documentaries

I was somewhat shocked to discover that the 1985 Australian documentary about Pagan and occult...

April 08, 2012

Pagan Community Notes: Patrick McCollum, Pagan Pride, Pagan Chants, and More!

Pagan Community Notes is a companion to my usual Pagan News of Note series, more focused on...

April 07, 2012

Why Teaching “the Controversy” Means Teaching Christianity

For decades there has been a quiet war against the teaching of evolution in American...

April 06, 2012

A Journey Through Contemporary Pagan Studies

While covering last year's American Academy of Religion's Annual Meeting in San Francisco one recurring...

April 05, 2012

Caught In Another Faith’s Crisis

The United States of America is a secular, pluralistic, nation that is home to hundreds...

April 04, 2012

Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)

There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes...

April 03, 2012

Follow Winegarner’s Rules When Reporting on Pagan and Minority Religions

Journalist Beth Winegarner has written an excellent how-to piece for Poynter, an institution dedicated to...

April 02, 2012

Grey Cat 1940 – 2012

On Friday, a friend of Pagan author and elder Grey Cat announced that she had...

April 01, 2012

The Wild Hunt Podcast, Episode 2: Politics, Politics, Politics!

Welcome to the latest installment of a new supplemental feature here at The Wild Hunt, The...