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Islamophobia and an American Heathen

My new post, Islamophobia and an American Heathen, is up at Pagan + Politics. You can also find a recent post on this subject by me at PoliticusUSA, here

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The Persecuted Christian Meme and Religious Toleration

Religious divisions are rife in the United States, a country founded on the idea of religious tolerance and more than ever inter-faith efforts are needed to smooth these divisions against a rising tide...

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Introducing Digital Gods

As one of the fastest growing “religions” (it’s actually many religions) on the planet, Pagans need to consider the role of technology in their religious landscape. Is science our friend, our enemy, or...

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Heathen’s Day Featured in 50 Best Blogs for Wiccans

Online Christian Colleges is running a piece on the 50 Best Blogs for Wiccans. Refreshingly, they point out that "One of the most misunderstood minority religions in the world today, Wicca involves a...

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The Reason for the Season’s Trees

So what’s with this Christian tree worship? It isn’t enough to plant the birth of your god on the birthday of gods who already celebrated December 25 as their birthdays; you have to worship their trees...

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Odin is Not YHWH

The author advances the claim that “the Norse and related peoples of Europe…can trace their descent from the Biblical lost tribes of the House of Israel.” How, you may ask, did a lost Canaanite tribe...

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AFA Says You Can’t Steal Easter Holiday We Stole from Paganism!

When Munson Township, Ohio, announced it was having a “Spring Egg Hunt” for kids, the AFA went nuts: You can't steal our stolen holiday!

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The Eagle – A Review

I finally got around to watching The Eagle (2011), a film starring Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell. The Eagle is supposed to be taking place in 2nd-Century Roman Britain, which is only proper given its...

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The Christian War on Paganism Continues

t’s an old war. The Jews fought it first, back in the 7th century B.C.E. The Christians then picked up the stick and spent a half-dozen centuries clubbing Pagans in the Roman Empire and turned their...

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Welcoming Ostara

Celebrations like Ostara were thought by our ancestors to mark the actual return of the god or goddess after a winter's absence, a return marked by the physical evidence of the return of spring.

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