Many Pagans serve in the Armed Forces.© Joe Raedle/Getty Images A reader writes in, "I attended a Pagan festival not too long ago, and I was shocked by how many people ... Read More

An interesting piece popped up in the Evansville Courier Press this weekend, discussing the different ways that religious groups look at body art, such as tattoos. Reporter Karen Owen-Phelps interviews ... Read More

A rain barrel can help you collect water© Patti Wigington 2009 For many Pagans and Wiccans, reverence for the earth and its resources is an important part of the spiritual journey. ... Read More

A reader writes in with a not-uncommon question: She asks, "There's been some weird stuff going on in my life, and I'm beginning to notice things happening that make me ... Read More

Today would have been the 53rd birthday of the late Scott Cunningham, and Llewellyn Publishing is announcing the release of a collection of previously unpublished work. The manuscript is based ... Read More

From Sri Lanka, reports are coming out that police have arrested Chandrasiri Bandara, a popular astrologer. Why? Because Bandara predicted the ousting from office of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Bandara writes ... Read More

Here's an interesting piece out of California. A federal court has ruled that a county library must allow a religious group to use its meeting rooms, because the library's policy ... Read More

So I just got back from a week at the beach, and as most people know, sometimes it's too darn hot to do anything but lie in the sun with ... Read More

The Santa Rosa County School District is up to its butt in legal fees, following costs incurred when the American Civil Liberties Union filed a school-prayer lawsuit. The suit was ... Read More

The good news is that lots of people got to visit Stonehenge for the summer solstice this past weekend. The bad news is that they left the place covered in ... Read More

In addition to being Litha and Yule today, if you live in the US, it's also Father's Day. Despite the fact that many modern Pagan paths are focused on the ... Read More

Celebrate the Sun!© Getty Images For those of you readers who happen to be in the Northern Hemisphere, you're enjoying Midsummer, or Litha right now. This is the day of the ... Read More

Sometimes, we see legitimate cases of religious discrimination, such as someone being treated unfairly because someone disagrees with their religion. Other times, we see stories that honestly just make me ... Read More

Oh, this is neat! A two-thousand-year-old monument of the god Mithras was found by Italian police just outside Rome. The large monument dates from the 2nd century c.e. It was ... Read More

It's Starhawk's birthday today! Born Miriam Simos, Starhawk is the author of a number of books on witchcraft, Wicca and modern Paganism, including the groundbreaking Spiral Dance. She is the ... Read More

I periodically get emails from folks who are not Pagan or Wiccan, but who have friends that are. Often, the writer says that they've been invited to some sort of ... Read More

Do you have a photo you'd like to share of your Litha altar? If you'd like to send it in for other readers to see, you can submit it as ... Read More

Last week, the city council in St. Petersburg, Florida, made some changes to their ordinances, eliminating some antiquated wording aimed at regulating "soothsayers" in the area. Now, a group of astrologers ... Read More

This should be of interest to anyone who supports that whole separation of church and state clause. Welton Gaddy of the Interfaith Alliance has been a long-time, and very vocal, ... Read More

On June 13, 1884, Gerald Gardner was born in England. Gardner became a renowned folklorist and collector of occult material, and he claimed to have been initiated into a coven ... Read More

Remember John Freshwater, the Ohio teacher who kept a ton of religious materials in his classroom, but was fired when he burned a student using a high-frequency generator? The case ... Read More

Intro to Tarot© Patti Wigington I get emails pretty regularly from folks looking for a beginner's Tarot class, so I'm pleased to announce that the class is now up and running! ... Read More

A federal appeals court has handed down a ruling that a monument displaying the Ten Commandments outside a courthouse "has the primary effect of endorsing religion." The monument is at ... Read More

Kingston University reports that a pair of previously undiscovered burial sites have been located by archaeologists. Dr. Helen Wickstead and her team discovered the 6,000-year-old complex near Damerham, Hampshire. Fragments ... Read More

On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop was the first person to be hanged in Salem, Massachussetts during the witch trials. Although there was no conclusive evidence that she practiced witchcraft, ... Read More

From down on the Gulf Coast, the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, made some changes to local ordinances the other day. However, unlike other towns which have been trying to ... Read More

New study explores sacred plantsof the Maya people© Getty Images This is a neat piece from the BBC. Economic Botany has recently published an article about the sacred plants of the ... Read More

Thanks to several readers who tipped me off to this story -- a bottle containing nail clippings, hair, and human urine was found in Greenwich, England, and it's what's commonly ... Read More

At an event in Virginia, conservatives Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee tried to rally the right-wing troops in the hopes of increasing the presence of religion in the public sector. ... Read More

There's a full moon this weekend, and it's the Strong Sun Moon -- no wonder, since Litha is approaching and the sun is warming the heavens and earth! Spend time ... Read More

Fundamentalist preacher Michael Marcavage has filed a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia, saying that he has been unfairly harassed and badgered by police officers, when all he's trying to ... Read More

At some point, word got passed around the Internet that June 2009 is apparently Blog About Pagan Values Month. I'm not sure who made the original decision that this is ... Read More

A note to law enforcement around the world: Just because you find a dead or mutilated animal doesn't mean the local Pagans/Satanists/Santerians are up to some nefarious celebration of the ... Read More

The Litha Seven-Day Sabbat e-course is up and ready! In this free e-class, which gets delivered right to your mailbox, we'll talk about the history and legends behind the Litha ... Read More

Recently we talked about Leilani Neumann, the mother was found guilty of second-degree reckless homicide after her daughter went into a diabetic coma and died. You may recall that eleven-year-old ... Read More

Image © Patti Wigington 2009 Sun Worship The Sun Dance Ra, the Sun God More Wordless Wednesday photos at About.com and the Wordless Wednesday Home Blog. Follow Pagan/Wiccan on Twitter or Join ... Read More

Last week we talked about the case of a San Diego pastor and his wife who were told they had to stop holding Bible study meetings in their home. There ... Read More

© Kelly Glasscock/Getty Images I've been reading about Dr. George Tiller, the Wichita, Kansas doctor who was gunned down this weekend while serving as an usher during church services. Tiller has ... Read More