Column: Aradia Inspires a New Generation of Resistance
Within 24 hours of President Trump’s inauguration, resistance movements exploded onto the national, and even international, landscape. The Women’s March on Washington was so large that attendees could...
View ArticleColumn: Jen Shakti, the Modern Tattoo Shaman
The tattoo has been an important sacred trial for individuals across multiple cultures for generations. The path of pain, identified in Western Witchcraft by Gerald Gardner and other early...
View ArticleColumn: Pagan Women Respond to Unbalanced Dress Codes
As spring gets into full steam and the weather gets warmer, clothing often tends to become more revealing. Men begin to wear more shorts and t-shirts while women move their wardrobe toward sundresses,...
View ArticleReview: American Gods
Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel American Gods is a popular read in Pagan circles, and the new Starz television series was greeted with excitement by many of the book’s Pagan fans. Debuting on April 30, the...
View ArticleColumn: Empirical Meets Spiritual: the Intersection of Science and Paganism
In April, scientists and supporters in cities across the United States marched in a unified protest. “In the face of an alarming trend toward discrediting scientific consensus and restricting...
View ArticleColumn: Pride After Pulse, Gay Pagans Reflect on a Tragedy
In the LGBTQ+ community, the month of June is the season of pride. While pride has its seeds as a protest movement spawned from the Stonewall riots of 1969, the trajectory of the movement has followed...
View ArticleColumn: Pagans Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter
On June 26, the wildly popular Harry Potter book series celebrated its 20th anniversary. Written by J.K. Rowling, who was a struggling single mother prior to skyrocketing to fame and fortune, the...
View ArticleColumn: Nocked! Refreshes the Legend of Robin Hood
There is an undeniable overlap between the Pagan community and those who love video games, fantasy and science fiction stories, mythology, and role-playing games. Often, it seems like the more of...
View ArticleColumn: Pagans Share Hurricane Stories and Struggles
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma were two of the most devastating hurricanes ever to hit the mainland United States. Each storm carried its own unique brand of destruction. Harvey smacked into southern...
View ArticleColumn: La Santa Muerte, the Growing Veneration of Holy Death in Paganism
In many ways, practitioners of modern Pagan religions can be seen as renegades. They are often well-educated about, and in many cases raised within, one of the mainstream faiths and have found that...
View ArticleColumn: the 13 Yule Lads of Iceland
If you were to arrive at Iceland’s Keflavik International Airport during the month of December expecting cheerful holiday lights or a jolly fat man in a red suit, you would be in for a bit of a...
View ArticleColumn: Pagans Prepare for a New Women’s March
As a minority community, many American Pagans met the beginning of 2017 with trepidation, with the inauguration of a new president who seemed hostile to values that many Pagans hold dear. Between the...
View ArticleColumn: Pagans and Polytheists Get Ready for PantheaCon
PantheaCon will be held Feb. 16-18 in San Jose, California. Attracting the nearly 3,000 people every year, PantheaCon is the largest indoor conference for Pagans, Heathens, Polytheists, and related...
View ArticleColumn: the Gifts, and Tricks, of the Crow
Walking through a high school campus just before lunchtime, I noticed four crows busily searching for scraps of food lying in the grass. One lucky bird had found a particularly large morsel and was...
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