Pagan Chaplain Speaks Out on Native Sacred Lands, Heads to Amman, Jordan for Cross-Cultural Dialog Conference

July 20, 2011 By
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Pagan chaplain and activist Patrick McCollum, who is involved in a high-profile case involving the rights of Pagans and religious minorities in California's prisons, participated at a demonstration in Vallejo, California to protect a Native American sacred gathering place and burial ground called Glen Cove (or Sogorea Te in Karkin Ohlone language). The City of Vallejo is working to develop the land into a recreational park, something that the local Native American community has been opposed … [Read more...]

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Updates: Sacred Paths Center, James Arthur Ray, The Winnemem Wintu, and Harry Potter

July 10, 2011 By

This Sunday, I have updates on some previously reported stories. Sacred Paths Center's Fiscal Crisis: As I reported on Friday, Sacred Paths Center, a Pagan community center serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul area (aka “Paganistan”), sent out a message that they were in dire fiscal straits and needed over 7000 dollars immediately if they were to avoid closure. Now one of the SPC's board members, CJ Stone, has been interviewed by PNC-Minnesota about the situation. "We were working from a … [Read more...]

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Harassment in Alcester and other Pagan News of Note

July 5, 2011 By

Top Story: The harassment of Pagans by intolerant neighbors isn't anything new, but it's rare to hear on-the-record confirmation of that hostility from prominent citizens. The Sunday Mercury reports on the plight of Albion and Raven, owners of the The Whispering Witch in Alcester, a small market town in England. Opened 15 months ago, Albion and Raven claim to have gotten threatening letters, and even had a bundle of wood stacked in front of the shop's door one morning, seemingly to imply that … [Read more...]

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Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)

July 2, 2011 By

There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up. In New Mexico, Peter Dybing lets us know that immediate danger to the Ardantane learning center from wildfires has passed. More reactions to the recently released “Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct” have emerged. Evangelical … [Read more...]

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