Tennessee could join the list of Southern states that have apologized for slavery and racial discrimination under a resolution introduced by a Nashville lawmaker.
The General Assembly has started debate on a resolution that would express “profound regret” for enslaving African-Americans and setting up the Jim Crow segregation system. The resolution is meant to draw attention to the legacy of ra
A school administrator wants to set the record straight: There are no vampires at Boston Latin.
The headmaster of the prestigious exam school took the unusual step today of sending a notice to faculty, students, and parents saying that “rumors involving ‘vampires’” had begun spreading through the building Wednesday, causing disruption and anxiety for a number of students.
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One must only drive around Greenville to see how religiously diverse the community is today.
The city houses all the world’s major religions, Mayor Pat Dunn pointed out: The Al-Masjid Islamic Center, Congregation Bayt Shalom, The Hindu Society, a Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and Study Center, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Protestant, Catholic and Evangelical churches.
There are no
An altar decorated with fresh flowers, budding vines and moist dirt. At the north end sits an offering of earth; to the south, fire; a container of water sits to the west; smoke to the east. One pours a handful of seeds into one hand, allowing them to fall into and around the altar, and evoking a blessing over them for the coming planting season. This is Ostara.
Ostara is another name for the S
The U.N.’s top human-rights body approved a proposal by Muslims nations Thursday urging passage of laws around the world to protect religion from criticism.
A simple majority of 23 members of the 47-nation Human Rights Council voted in favor of the resolution. Eleven nations, mostly Western, opposed the resolution, and 13 countries abstained.
Muslim nations have argued that religions, in par
… covered by a black cloak, practicing his religion. His loud nasal grunts were exaggerated, as … is a member of the local eclectic Wiccan coven, a part of the pagan religious … a collection of religious groups that includes Wicca, which is the largest, as well as …
The practice of disposing of bodies by burning is almost as old as the human race itself and has been practised by many civilisations.
Early Christians, influenced by the New Testament account that the body of Christ was entombed according to Jewish rites, rejected cremation as a hangover from pagan times.
Various proposals were put forward in the UK in favour of cremation but no progress w
Congress has voted to set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness from California’s Sierra Nevada mountains to the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia.
The legislation, which opponents, mostly Republicans, called a “land grab” that would block energy development on vast swaths of federal land, is on its way to President Barack Obama for his likely signature.
Is America losing faith? Not, apparently, faith in the Goddess, as Wicca and Paganism seem to be growing while everything else is fading.
Why are we growing? In a time when the very life support systems of the planet are threatened by environmental destruction and global warming, many people seek a faith rooted in love and respect for nature.
A group claiming to be the world’s largest online school for witchcraft will hold its annual international conference here next month.
The three-day conference, titled “Pagans Taking Global Action,” is scheduled for April 17-19 at the Hawthorne Hotel. It will include a discussion of the Pagan economy, a handfastings (Pagan wedding) demonstration and a keynote address by Christian Day, a Salem w
