… lecture and presentation tonight called Wicca: The Religion of Witchcraft. Adkison, Leavenworth sophomore, said that one of … Wicca? A: I was first introduced to Wicca when I was 13 years old. The …
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
A Time To Celebrate: Many Religious Holidays Fall This Time Of The Year
March 31, 2009 – 8:12 pm
There’s something about spring that makes people want to celebrate. As flowers bloom and leaves sprout, we want to shake off our lethargy and bloom, too.
Lots of religious holidays occur in the spring, but it’s not always because of what’s happening in nature.
Easter, for example, “is something supernatural and not natural,” said Douglas Low, professor of New Testament at Oakland City Univer
Is Now A Good Time To Unplug And Move To The Woods?
March 31, 2009 – 8:12 pm
Here is the good news: We are completely doomed.
Isn’t that great? Isn’t that reassuring? It damn well should be, because, in some form or another and since we were knee-high to a cave painting, the apocalypse has always, always been nigh.
It is perhaps the single most wonderful and reliable aspect about being a tiny troubled biped on this tiny troubled speck of spinning space dust; dependin
How Science Fiction Found Religion
March 31, 2009 – 8:12 pm
There is a young man, different from other young men. Ancient prophecies foretell his coming, and he performs miraculous feats. Eventually, confronted by his enemies, he must sacrifice his own lifean act that saves mankind from calamitybut in a mystery as great as that of his origin, he is reborn, to preside in glory over a world redeemed.
Tell this story to one of the worlds 2 billion Chri
Norwegian Delegation Visits Wirral To Explore Viking Past
March 31, 2009 – 8:12 pm
A pioneering link has been established between former Viking parliament sites in Wirral and Norway.
Tingvoll and Thingwall are among a handful of similarly-named towns or villages in Europe thought to have had Viking settlements.
As the name means assembly field, experts believe these were once seats of Viking power. Others include Tingvellir in Iceland and Tynwald in the Isle of Man. Afte
Tom O’Toole Saving Notre Dame: the impact of youth and Rockne
March 31, 2009 – 8:30 am
… for they knew this was the one religious obligation the boys would pursue with glee. … students in a New Age rant or Wiccan chant as an Our Father or Hail … rolling … I passed the nearby Catholic Church with the rich parishioners, instead opting for …
Is One Man’s Faith Another’s Superstition? (Opinion)
March 30, 2009 – 7:43 pm
At a Mass on Saturday in Luanda, Angola, Pope Benedict tried to warn his listeners of the dangers of belief in witchcraft. Though he never used that word, his implication was clear when he suggested that African Catholics should offer Christ to their fellow citizens because “so many of them are living in fear of spirits, of malign and threatening powers.” He worried aloud about many Africans: “In
Drum Trolls, Please: Witches Ball At The Benicia Clock Tower
March 30, 2009 – 7:43 pm
The wicked witch may be dead; the good witches are still around. And they’ll be dancing, singing and beating drums Saturday at the Witches Ball, presented by The Pagan Alliance at the Clock Tower in Benicia.
There won’t be any eye of newts or toe of frogs. And definitely no little kids turned into mice, said James Bianchi, one of the event coordinators.
“It’s fascinating. It’s serious. It’s
3-27 God Squad (Column)
March 30, 2009 – 7:43 pm
Q: What are your thoughts about Wicca and other pagan beliefs? Also, why is it when I tell people Im Wiccan, they automatically assume Im a Satanist?
I do inform people that Satan doesnt exist in my religion, and that the Devil is basically only in the Abrahamic faiths. Usually, they get all uppity and deny this. Some even start yelling at me and telling me Im going to Hell. I tell them Hel
Pagans Celebrate The Arrival Of Spring With Ostara Ritual
March 30, 2009 – 7:43 pm
Kat Lindgren used a flat feather to expertly fan burning sage over the small huddle of pagans gathered Saturday in the backyard behind her Lafayette home.
As the pine scent settled over the circle and the sun started to set, Lindgren a clergy-level Wiccan priestess began the Ostara rite, a pagan ritual that celebrates the spring equinox and honors the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, also known
