All that we reject, parts of ourselves that we push into the unconscious, whether anger, sexuality, vulnerability, creativity, what ever we have disowned, has power we need to reclaim.
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 04.01.2012
Is the purpose of the funeral to respect the harmony of the majority or to allow each individual to grieve in the manner that best fits them?
Kelley Harrell | Posted 02.21.2012
As you decorate for this season, think about the totems that are important to you and the reason that they move you. Are they traditional to your family or religion? Have you discovered new totems as you explore personal meanings of the season?
Kelley Harrell | Posted 02.05.2012
Barbara Ardinger explores woman's journey through time, culture, sexism, spirituality, aging, and even death.
Jay Rubenstein | Posted 12.31.2011
While not a defensive war, the First Crusade was a war of vengeance. The Christians were out to avenge the sufferings of their Savior, the humiliations He was forced to endure every day...
Jay Rubenstein | Posted 12.21.2011
The war for Jerusalem, in their words, was one of West vs. East. When the crusaders successfully conquered Jerusalem, observers at home marveled over what they, as Westerners, had accomplished.
Matt J. Rossano | Posted 08.16.2011
The ease with which the ancient world accepted violence and suffering was a natural outgrowth of the pagan understanding of the human person. But Christianity pronounced a message as radical as it was attractive.
Maryland Heights, MO Patch | Posted 08.10.2011
Somewhere in Maryland Heights, a beautiful blonde's admiring husband watches her rehearse for her first daytime public belly dance performance. Elsewh...
Sean Paige | Posted 07.04.2011
This report in today's Colorado Springs Gazette prompted the following letter of protest to Academy Superintendent Michael Gould, acting in my capacit...
Bron Taylor | Posted 06.21.2011
We are a species not highly evolved enough to be ready for Earth Day, let alone Mother Earth day. But there is some tantalizing and hopeful evidence that we're beginning to find our way.
Posted 05.25.2011
By Al Webb Religion News Service LONDON (RNS) The Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, worried about the growing influence of Harry Potter and...
Grove Harris | Posted 05.25.2011
Pagans celebrate Imbolc as a time to consider intentions and tools; it is a time to clarify aim and dedicate one's self for the coming year, to let go of clutter and to prepare for the season of growth.
Bron Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011
Efforts to suppress nature-based beliefs and practices have been tremendously successful. Those who believe that there are spiritual beings or forces in nature have been denigrated as primitive and superstitious.
Blake Bromley | Posted 05.25.2011
On some not-too-distant Halloween, or Samhain to your Druid friends, Canadians might be tempted to claim a charitable donation tax credit for the cost of those Twizzlers and Twix.
Wes Isley | Posted 05.25.2011
In the end, I don't know what motivated O'Donnell to explore witchcraft or why she eventually turned to a conservative form of Christianity. Perhaps she needed to "dabble" a bit in order to find her way.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Christine O'Donnell's mercurial candidacy for the United States Senate has elevated the issue of witchcraft to uncommon political heights. But not eve...
Elizabeth Cunningham | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of regarding the elements as our enemies, something to harness, subdue, exploit or escape, maybe it is time to start honoring them again, restoring them, learning from them, aligning with them.
Wes Isley | Posted 05.25.2011
I see something refreshing in Bonewits' unconventional and daring life, a life that helped redefine what it means to be a spiritual person in this modern world. Thank you, Isaac.
Max Watman | Posted 05.25.2011
Mint juleps are delicious drinks, and people drink them quickly. Even the host of the party needs some time to handicap the race, call in some bets, and watch the post parade. The solution is to batch them.
Posted 05.25.2011
Some 20,000 revelers -- mainly New Age and neo-pagan types -- gathered to dance, sing and holler as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle Sto...
Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
Jews, Pagans and Christians have much in common this time of year. So let us rejoice and join together in spring rebirth, renewal and resurrection.
Anne Hill | Posted 05.25.2011
Already impatient with the slow pace of health care reform, many women are now furious that conservatives in Washington have once more made women's reproductive rights a pawn in their power game.
Colorado Springs Gazette | LANCE BENZEL | Posted 05.25.2011
The latest sign of change at the Air Force Academy: An emergency "bat-signal" for religious intolerance. Mikey Weinstein, an academy graduate and fo...
The Colorado Springs Independent | Pam Zubeck | Posted 05.25.2011
Even as the Air Force Academy bragged about its open-mindedness in allowing the construction of a prayer circle for earth worshippers, somebody doesn'...
AP | DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011
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Grove Harris | Posted 04.03.2012