Pagan Pride Day

Pagan conferences return with more attendees, more magick after pandemic hiatus

By Heather Greene — April 19, 2023
(RNS) — ‘Everybody is here. There are lots of hugs. We are back.’

Witchcraft isn’t just for Halloween anymore

By Heather Greene — October 29, 2021
(RNS) — Halloween's commercialized kitsch and other hocus pocus can be, well, dispiriting.

‘Am I the worst thing a person can be?’: Witches fight media bias

By Heather Greene — June 14, 2021
(RNS) — 'Criminals aren’t labeled as Baptist,' one witch observed, unless the crime is related to professed religious beliefs, as was the case in the recent spa shootings in Atlanta.

Pagan Pride Day: Earth-based religions celebrate unique identity (PHOTOS)

By Lauren Pond — September 22, 2015
(RNS) It is difficult to estimate the size of the American neo-pagan community, which includes adherents to Wicca, Druidism and Asatru, among other polytheistic and Earth-based religions. Fearing reprisal for their beliefs, many people do not publicly identify as pagan. They remain, as the saying goes, “in the broom closet.”
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