… in 2008: Patrick McCollum : An ordained Wiccan minister, Patrick has been involved in the … worked with the in the evaluation of religious equality and inmates’ rights. Despite recovering from … be an educational haven for practitioners of Wicca, Paganism, Shamanism, and other non-mainstream faiths. Jason …
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Pagans Who Made a Difference in 2008
December 29, 2008 – 11:10 am
… in 2008: Patrick McCollum : An ordained Wiccan minister, Patrick has been involved in the … worked with the in the evaluation of religious equality and inmates’ rights. Despite recovering from … be an educational haven for practitioners of Wicca, Paganism, Shamanism, and other non-mainstream faiths. Jason …
Celebrity Wiccans & Pagans
December 28, 2008 – 1:50 pm
… all to anything outside of the Mainstream Religions, they’re automatically tagged as Pagan. For years, … went crazy over it — is she Wiccan or isn’t she? Or is she just …
Witches’ Daggers Seized By Customs
December 27, 2008 – 9:15 pm
Christmas for some Masterton witches has been caught up in a cut-and-thrust customs war over imported ceremonial knives.
Dave Hannay, owner of Napier retail outlet King of Knives, said he has battled for a year with customs officers over a consignment of 230 fake knives and swords that were in part bound for covens in Masterton as well as freemasons across New Zealand.
Mr Hannay said some of
Celebrating The Magic Of Christmas
December 27, 2008 – 9:15 pm
As the world gets into the Christmas spirit buying the Christmas tree, and the mistletoe, it is being debated that these traditions have very little to do with Christianity.
Most of these are associated with Winter Solstice, celebrated by the ancient religions and cultures and later adopted by Christianity when they decided to place the birth of Christ in the midst of this festive season.
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Priest ‘Ruins Christmas’ For Kids
December 27, 2008 – 9:15 pm
A Catholic priest has been criticised by parents in a city in northern Italy for telling their children that Father Christmas does not really exist.
Father Dino Bottino, the parish priest of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Novara, let out the secret at a children’s mass earlier this month.
A local paper published complaints from dozens of parents. “You’ve ruined my children’s Christmas,”
Ho, Ho, No: Toymakers Say Lead Law Harms Workshops
December 27, 2008 – 9:15 pm
Worries over lead paint in mass-market toys made the holidays a little brighter for handcrafted toy makers last year, but now the federal government’s response to the scare has some workshops fearful that this Christmas might be their last.
Without changes to strict new safety rules, they say, mom-and-pop toy makers and retailers could be forced to conduct testing and labeling they can’t afford
The Great Lansing Elf Visit Of 1998
December 27, 2008 – 9:15 pm
For the purposes of this story, it would be important to point out that there’s a difference between standard elves and Christmas elfs. Elves, according to Wikipedia, are fantastical creatures with roots in German folklore. Christmas elfs (do you see the difference in the spelling there?) specifically make toys, have pointy shoes and ears and wear shiny, red and green-colored clothes. One could as
DFW International Airport To Host 26-Foot-Tall Anubis Statue In Celebration Of King Tut Exhibit
December 27, 2008 – 9:15 pm
DFW International Airport welcomed the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god Anubis, guide and protector of the dead, to the Airport’s popular Founders’ Plaza today, celebrating the successful conclusion of the “Year of the International Traveler.”
The 10-ton, 26-foot-tall statue, which will “deck the skyways” with a giant candy cane staff, will be on display to celebrate the “Tutankhamun and the
Race, Class and Proposition 8
December 26, 2008 – 11:12 pm
… Amos Brown, senior Pastor of Third Baptist Church, the biggest Black church in the city, … the 1980s I flirted with modern pagan religion. One of the major rules of thumb … thumb of, shall we say, very decentralized Wicca, is that whatever you do, for good …
