Talking to Actual Experts
I don’t get to say this too often, but bravo to the Sioux City Journal for their even-keeled and well-sourced follow up story to the horrendous “witchcraft” killing of two young girls. “The sisters...
View ArticlePagan Scholar Testifies In High-Profile Murder Case
The Sioux City Journal is currently running coverage of Lawrence Harris’s murder trial. Harris is accused of first degree murder in the deaths of his two young step-daughters, which he said was the...
View ArticleAdd Your Voice to the Pagan Census
Pagan scholar Helen Berger, co-author of “Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States”, has announced that she and fellow researchers James R. Lewis...
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Circling Alone: Paganism’s Solitary Eclectic Future?
Perhaps one of most thought-provoking presentations I attended at the American Academy of Religion’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco was that by sociologist Helen A. Berger at the Contemporary Pagan...
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The Future of Pagan Gatherings: Virtual and Local?
This year Pagan Spirit Gathering (PSG), a Midwest Pagan festival that’s been running for more than 30 years, broke attendance records, drawing over 1000 people to the week-long event. The West Coast...
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Unleash the Hounds! (Halloween Hangover Links Roundup)
There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to...
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Pagan Community Notes: Pagan Census, Morning Glory Zell, Arthur Hinds, and More!
Pagan Community Notes is a series focused on news originating from within the Pagan community. Reinforcing the idea that what happens to and within our organizations, groups, and events is news, and...
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New Pagan survey takes a different approach
TROMSØ, No. –American researcher James R. Lewis, a professor of religious studies at the University of Tromsø, has decided it’s time to take the pulse of Pagan communities once again. Since before the...
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Pagan Community Notes: Week of November 7, 2022
In this week's Pagan Community Notes: Wiccan church denied building permit, The Witches awards have been announced, Remembering Alder MoonOak, and more news. Continue reading Pagan Community Notes:...
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