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August 2011

August 15, 2011

Pagan Community Notes: Vivianne Crowley, Odroerir Journal, Sacred Harvest Festival, and more!

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

August 14, 2011

Quick Notes: Protecting Sacred Lands, The Interfaith Observer, and Teenage Clergy

A few quick news notes for you on this Sunday morning. Protecting Sacred Lands: The...

August 13, 2011

Reuters Discover the Witches (on True Blood)

Last year at this time the popular HBO cable television series "True Blood," a show...

August 12, 2011

Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)

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

August 11, 2011

Invisible Christian Privilege

I've been writing about Christians a lot lately. It seems largely unavoidable, as the influence...

August 10, 2011

Quick Note: Coverage of San Francisco Peaks Protests

For those of you who have been following my coverage of the fight over expansion...

August 09, 2011

The Christian Propaganda that Inspires Michele Bachmann

Republican presidential candidate Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann is performing strongly in Iowa polls, and while...

August 08, 2011

Religion’s Role in Custody Battles

A common fear among adherents to minority faiths in the United States is that our...

August 07, 2011

Polytheism, Monotheism, and Scholarship

I was recently pointed to a just-published piece at the Bryn Mawr Classical Review that...

August 06, 2011

Listening to Rick Perry’s Response

Today's the day! Texas Governor Rick Perry's massive prayer rally "The Response" is now underway, and you...

August 05, 2011

Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)

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

August 04, 2011

Update: Sacred Paths Center Closed “Indefinitely”

In yesterday's community roundup I noted that Sacred Paths Center, a Pagan community center serving the...

August 03, 2011

Patrick McCollum in Jordan and other Pagan Community Notes

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

August 02, 2011

Borders Closure a “Body Blow” to Pagan Publishers

On July 22nd the bookstore chain Borders started the process of closing its 399 remaining...

August 01, 2011

A Blessed Lughnasadh

Today is Lughnasadh (also known as Lammas) the first of three harvest festivals celebrated in many modern...

July 2011

July 31, 2011

Christina Oakley Harrington: Paganism in Britain Today

I'm very pleased to present a lecture by Christina Oakley Harrington, founder of Treadwell's Bookshop...

July 30, 2011

A Setback for Sectarian Prayers (to Jesus)

There's been quite a bit of discussion this year concerning when sectarian prayers in the...

July 29, 2011

Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)

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

July 28, 2011

What’s the Big Deal with the New Apostolic Reformation?

The English-language site for the Arabic news outlet Al Jazeera recently featured an editorial by Paul Rosenberg, Senior...

July 27, 2011

Pagan War Widow’s Truck Vandalized, and other Pagan News of Note

Top Story: A local Nevada television station is reporting that Roberta Stewart, widow of Sgt....

July 26, 2011

Polygamy Decriminalization and Polyamorous Pagans

Our modern society is both fascinated and repulsed by the practice of polygamy (multiple-partner marriages), particularly...

July 25, 2011

Pagan Reactions to the DC40 Prayer War

“There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy...

July 24, 2011

What Spiritual Warfare Looks Like

I've written at some length about the upcoming prayer rally "The Response" and its problematic...

July 23, 2011

Quick Notes: Bjork’s Biophilia, San Francisco Peaks, and Pagan Podcasts

Just a few quick notes for you on this Saturday afternoon. Bjork's Biophilia: Way back...

July 22, 2011

Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)

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

July 21, 2011

Pagan Charity in Missouri and Australia, plus other Pagan News of Note

Top Story: Though still small religious minorities throughout the world, contemporary Pagan groups have increasingly...

July 20, 2011

Pagan Chaplain Speaks Out on Native Sacred Lands, Heads to Amman, Jordan for Cross-Cultural Dialog Conference

Pagan chaplain and activist Patrick McCollum, who is involved in a high-profile case involving the rights...

July 19, 2011

Pagans on ABC’s Nightline

Last night the ABC news program Nightline ran a "Sign of the Times" segment featuring Sgt...

July 18, 2011

Rick Perry Endorser: “Stop Voting for Pagans”

I don't know how Right Wing Watch digs this stuff up, but gods bless 'em...

July 18, 2011

Are the Prayers of a Metaphysicist, a Sikh, and a Muslim Enough?

Just as legal questions over the Frederick County Commissioners opening invocations policy, initially dubbed a “Wiccan-proof prayer policy,”...