To all our readers down in the Big Easy, and other points along the Gulf Coast, please try to stay safe. I've just read that evacuation is now 100% mandatory ... Read More

If you're anywhere near the Carolina coast, stop in for Pagan Unity Days in Charleston, SC, next weekend. The event runs Saturday and Sunday, September 6 & 7, and I'll ... Read More

Thanks to reader Christine in West Virginia for sending this one along. In an move oddly reminiscent of last year's Florida gothwear debacle, a high school prinicpal has suspended four ... Read More

Author Raymond Buckland has a birthday today. He's been writing books on Paganism and Wiccan for some forty-odd years now, and is often credited with being instrumental in bringing Wicca ... Read More

Thanks to Dolores Stewart Riccio and a couple of others who forwarded me this story - Anna Goeldi, the last woman in Europe to be tried an executed as a ... Read More

Over at Newsweek, Starhawk's regular column On Faith is out, and I gotta say, it made me giggle. She volunteers to run for office, because she's watched five seasons of ... Read More

Sharon Papo & Amber Weiss married in June© Justin Sullivan/Getty Images 2008 OK, technically this isn't Pagan or Wiccan news, but it does apply to many of our readers here and ... Read More

In an absolutely not-meant-to-be-hilarious-but-still-is article, England's Daily Mail blames the show Buffy The Vampire Slayer for declining church attendance by women. In fact, BTVS is so powerful that it caused ... Read More

The folks down in Florida's Indian Wells neighborhood should probably take a look at this: Maine Rabbi Wins Home Worship Appeal. Up in Portland, Maine, a rabbi was told to ... Read More

Reader BahamaMama writes in with an interesting question. She says, "I had a weird experience at the gym today. While I was using the cycle, I found myself sort of ... Read More

Here's one you can run by your local homeowner's association, just for fun. In Florida, residents of a Palm Beach neighborhood called Indian Wells are getting huffy because one home ... Read More

Much to the surprise and delight of many of us, it turns out that the interfaith ceremony held yesterday at the Democratic National Convention actually was an interfaith ceremony. As ... Read More

Magical Mondays: Sweetgum ball!© Getty Images Ready for this week's Magical Mondays item? Everyone has really been thinking outside the box, and we're getting some really great magical uses for not-so-magical ... Read More

I've gotten three emails lately about some wonderful magical phenomenon that's supposed to take place on August 27, two of which have scolded me for not bothering to mention the ... Read More

Thanks to blog reader HumVeeJockey for forwarding this my way - it appears that a recent endorsement of a religious book by a couple of high-ranking generals has earned some ... Read More

With the Democratic National Convention right around the corner, party members are hoping to show that they really are a party of faith and values, rather than a bunch of ... Read More

Author Ann Moura celebrates her birthday today, August 20. Ann is known as the "Green Witch" and has written several books on her tradition of witchcraft, as well as a ... Read More

Larry Harris, the man who is accused of brutally murdering his two stepdaughters back in January, will be heading to court soon, and prosecutors are portraying him as a cold-blooded ... Read More

Back in March, I blogged about the folks at the Upper Arlington Public Library here in Ohio - they were being sued by a fundamentalist Christian group after the library ... Read More

Magical Mondays: Cheese Grater!© Getty Images Ready for this week's Magical Mondays item? Everyone has really been thinking outside the box, and we're getting some really great magical uses for not-so-magical ... Read More

It's never to early too start planning ahead, and with the Mabon season coming up shortly, there are a lot of different Pagan Pride events planned. I've just updated the ... Read More

Over at the Wild Hunt blog, Jason Pitzl-Waters announced that Oberon Zell-Ravenheart has been diagnosed with cancer. A golfball-sized tumor was discovered during a routine colonoscopy, and tests are being ... Read More

August 13 was the festival of Pomona, a rather obscure but still significant Roman deity. Pomona was the goddess of orchards and fruit trees, and if you live in the ... Read More

Mark Misiak is, in general, a Buddhist. However, because he's incarcerated, he can't obtain incense as a Buddhist. He can obtain it as a Wiccan, though, so Misiak has declared ... Read More

The first day of school can be scary!© Getty Images 2008 I got some very positive feedback on this last August, so I thought I'd share it again for those ... Read More

Thanks to BarbWire for tipping me off to this story, which I had never even heard about even though it's been going on since around 2004. So there's this mountain ... Read More

As the summer begins winding down, we've made it through the first harvest of Lammas/Lughnasadh, and now it's time to think about bringing in the next phase of crops. Grain ... Read More

I'm not entirely sure what to think of this, but on the surface it seems like a good idea, or at the very least that it's being done with the ... Read More

Okay, all you feline lovers out there (and I know there's a LOT of you). This is neat. The National Geographic Channel will be airing a special entitled Explorer: the ... Read More

On September 8, a judge will begin hearing more information in the case of the West Memphis Three. For the first time, appeals from all three defendants -- Damien Echols, ... Read More

There's not a lot that renders me speechless, but this article came pretty close. A British television network is airing a new "reality show" -- and I use the term ... Read More

Reader SkippyJonBones (and several others) write in asking about the use of the word "warlock." It's possibly one of the most hotly debated issues in the Pagan community, right up ... Read More

Magical Mondays: Rain Boots!© Getty Images Ready for this week's Magical Mondays item? I'm loving this -- some of the answers you guys have presented for previous items have been fabulous, ... Read More

The Green Bay, Wisconsin, holiday pentacle case is finally headed to court, and will go before a judge on September 15. The city of Green Bay, the mayor and a ... Read More

Blog reader April writes, "My girlfriend has found her Wiccan name but I dont know how to find mine and I'm new to Wicca. What should i do?" Well, for starters, ... Read More

You know, I think it's a clear mark of just how differently Pagans see things from non-Pagany folks, when I read this story in the Huffington Post and wondered just ... Read More

In a post from the always-informative Religion Clause blog, a Texas inmate named Iron Thunderhorse successfully argued that the prison system gives preferential treatment to Native American inmates whose spirituality ... Read More

An interesting piece from the Washington Post touches on the issue of Olympic athletes visiting China, and how they may (or may not) express their faith. A number of Olympic ... Read More

Did you take any pretty pictures of your Lammas/Lughnasadh altar last week? If you'd like to share a photo of yours with the rest of us, you can send it ... Read More

A couple of weeks ago, during our excellent discussion on the magical use of buttons, the topic of a witch's ladder came up. Reader Marjorie recommended using them on the ... Read More

Over a hundred Neolithic rock carvings have been discovered in Northumberland, Great Britain, and experts say they could "have played a role in fire, feastings and offering activities, or been ... Read More

Magical Mondays: Salt & Pepper Shakers!© Getty Images Magical Mondays is turning into a lot of fun -- we're getting some really amazing and clever answers for our not-so-magical items. There's ... Read More

I get several emails each week from people who ask "How do I get started learning about Wicca?" Thanks to a couple of really good tips from one of our ... Read More

If you live in southern Oregon and you have young Pagans-in-training, you might want to check this out. Rowan Tree Ministries is forming a Pagan Preschool, one of the first ... Read More

With the presidential election looming ever closer on the horizon, it was only a matter of time before the conventions began. Believe it or not, there are two openly Pagan ... Read More

August 1 is the first of the three harvest festivals celebrated by most modern Pagans. Some celebrate it as Lammas, the "loaf mass", which focuses on the grain and bread, ... Read More