Following Hurricane Helene, many community groups in western North Carolina jumped into action to help, including those who ...

The hero of one of the stories is a handsome young god named Mabon ap Modron ("Son of the Mother") who was held hostage in ...

God can transform negative situations into positive outcomes. God isn’t the author of death, destruction, and evil, but he ...

From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – ...

First of all paganism itself is really not a religion ... performances as incompatible with their belief in the one true God. So Christians would have been on those occasions conspicuous by ...

Christianity is often viewed as an alternative to Roman religion. But in many ways, Christianity was an expression of Roman ...

and Easter gets its English name — and those eggs and bunnies — from a pagan goddess, Eostre. Likewise, Christmas gets its trees and holly and mistletoe and even its gift-giving traditions ...

Some creatures of ancient Slavic daemonology, like vampires and strigoi have gone on to earn some worldwide notoriety – and even became part of popular culture. Slavic mythology, by contrast, remains ...

References to Odin emerged as a god of commerce, but they increasingly associated Odin ... whose misunderstandings of the ...

The simple phrase "For God so loved the world . . ." would have puzzled an educated pagan. And the notion that the gods care how we treat one another would have been dismissed as patently absurd.