“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” has been released in movie form! It’s again generating controversy over the evil effects such fantasy has upon our children! Paganism! Magic! Wizards! Oh, my!

As Christians conquered pagan lands, they regularly superimposed Christian symbols on pagan shrines. I thought of this when I read that the buildings of Chicago Theological Seminary have been sold to ...

Easter arrives this year on Sunday, April 17, 2022, but if you think Easter started as a Christian holiday, think again. The history and origins of how Easter began aren't rooted in what Christians ...

On Monday, I began my review of Steven Smith's Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, and I finished at the point where Smith, having surveyed ancient paganism, ...

Spring/April/the time of the equinox is the time of celebration of the ancient spring fertility festival honoring the goddess Eostre (Ostara, Oestera). This celebration, of pagan origin, pays tribute ...

How would this rather unusual claim [of a resurrected Messiah] or message have fallen on the average pagan ear? That's the most difficult question of all. This is obviously an interpretation which ...

Solstice: the sun stands still. In temperate countries of the northern and southern hemispheres, every year there are two: summer and winter. The northern hemisphere’s summer solstice, which occurs on ...