The circular meeting room in the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bayside is a bright, airy space. Seated in a ring of chairs are a dozen people, mostly members of the Grove of Hekate ...

Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate attempted to revive paganism in the Roman Empire by elevating the Greek god Asclepius as a rival to Christ and Christianity. Painting of Julian presiding at a ...

They also happen to have the most press freedom on the planet. Reporters Without Borders (or RSF, to use the initialism for ...

Bathing in rivers and lakes, and midnight, and rolling in a morning dew, anyone? This is a part of pre-Christian rituals still practiced in Lithuania during ...

CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati Reds closer Emilio Pagan appeared to injure himself on his final pitch in Tuesday night's 2-1 win over the San Francisco Giants. Pagan recorded his fifth save with a 1-2-3 ...

People hear “pagan” and recoil. For centuries, Paganism was associated with witchcraft, demons, and the dark arts. The connotation makes people weary of pagans and pagan religions, but it’s completely ...

Every morning begins the same for Paul Ridlon, who also goes by Magnus de Rhuddlan. No matter the weather, he steps out of the round yurt where he lives in Portland and lights incense at his southern ...

MAINE, USA — Every morning begins the same for Paul Ridlon, who also goes by Magnus de Rhuddlan. No matter the weather, he steps out of the round yurt where he lives in Portland and lights incense at ...

In parts of medieval Europe, families hired sin eaters to absorb the sins of the dead. The sin eater consumed bread and drink placed on the corpse, symbolically taking the deceased’s guilt. This ...

"These traditions slow me down, force me to recognize the passage of time and the way in which the changing of seasons has affected my world," writes Morgan Lockhart Morgan Lockhart lives in the ...

The first steps of carving out new traditions can feel a little bit awkward (after all, they aren’t tradition yet), but with time and repetition, they become like slipping into a pair of well-broken ...