Pagan/Wiccan News

Sheri Metcalf's house is pretty ordinary, for the most part. There's an entertainment center with a television tuned to HGTV and several DVDs on the shelf. Cozy chairs sit around the room along with a bookshelf and computer desk. Family photos adorn the walls. But there's also a shiny pentacle sitting on the old wooden cabinet in front of the picture window.

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It grieves my heart when well-meaning people of faith condemn various Judeo-Christian symbols like the Cross, the Fish, the Menorah, and the Star of David as Pagan or occultic symbols. I say well-meaning because they have all been swayed by the misinformation on web sites and in books that claim that most of the symbols used by Jews and Christians today have a Pagan or occultic origin. ...

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As a religious holiday, our Mother's Day is a non-starter. That's reasonable because today's version of Mother's Day was never intended to serve as a reminder of God or to celebrate a day of historical significance for any particular faith group. ...

Ancient pagans honoured motherhood with specific religious festivals in honour of the mothers of their gods or in honour of a mother-creator figure.

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Thanks to the fast feet of Michael Flatley and the Riverdance crew, there was a time in the not too distant past when Irish was not only a nationality, but a brand that people slapped on anything and everything ...

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DVD Video Review

This fascinating, if slightly dated, trilogy of Canadian documentaries provides some interesting insight into Goddess worship from the times of pre-history to women's drumming circles of today.

Goddess Remembered is a 1989 feature that spans the globe while giving a perhaps over generalized review of ancient goddess worshiping practices.

The second documentary in this set, The Burning Times is probably the best all around piece and deals with the history of witchcraft.

1992's Full Circle covers a lot of material that was frankly already dealt with in the first documentary, but which is utilized here to further make the case that modern practitioners of goddess worship are helping to bring our planet back from the brink of patriarchal-based destruction.

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Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center.

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The charge from the school district ? Wizardry! The stories in the news about inappropriate relationships between teachers and students have been overwhelming.

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In seventh century England, a woman's jewelry-draped body was laid out on a specially constructed bed and buried in a grave that formed the center of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, according to British archaeologists ... she might have been a member of royalty who led a pagan cult at a time when Christianity was just starting to take root in the region.

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In religion, as in war, success often lies in numbers. Nowhere has this been quite as true as in the Near East of 5,000 years ago.

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Celebrating motherhood is a historical tradition dating back thousands of years. Ancient cultures including the ancient Greeks, Romans and Celtic Pagans paid tribute to mothers as goddesses.

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