Pagan Community Notes: Witch School and Reality TV, Goddess Across Borders, Modern Witch Magazine, and More!

July 3, 2012 By
Witch School CEO Ed Hubbard.

Pagan Community Notes is a series focused on news originating from within the Pagan community. Reinforcing the idea that what happens to and within our organizations, groups, and events is news, and news-worthy. My hope is that more individuals, especially those working within Pagan organizations, get into the habit of sharing their news with the world. So let’s get started! Witch School Ends the Reality Television Gravy Train: Yesterday Witch School International, the largest online … [Read more...]

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Katrina “Foxglove” Kessler 1989 – 2012

April 27, 2012 By
Katrina "Foxglove" Kessler

On April 21st, Katrina Kessler, known by many in the Pagan community as Foxglove, passed away after a car accident in San Diego, California. An up-and-coming figure in our community, Kessler worked at the World of Witches Museum in Salem, starred in, and helped produce, "The Young Witches of Salem," did reporting and production work with MagickTV, and hosted the video series "Foxglove’s Lost and Found." Shortly before her death she was working with a community service organization called … [Read more...]

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The Narrative of Explosive Growth Does Us No Good

October 15, 2011 By
Not going to become the 3rd largest religious group any time soon.

Modern Pagan religions are growing, this is a fact backed up by surveys and census data, and many believe that we are growing even faster than these somewhat imprecise methods can track. Historian Ronald Hutton has estimated that there may be as many as a quarter of a million Pagans in the United Kingdom, far more than the figure of 40,000 from the 2001 census, and Pagan groups in Australia and Britain have engaged in campaigns that they hope will bring in census results closer to their own … [Read more...]

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Quick Notes: Fiat LVX, Fort Bragg Open Circle, and the Young Witches of Salem

October 1, 2011 By
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Just a few quick news notes for your Saturday. Thorn Coyle Launches New Video Series: Pagan author and mentor T. Thorn Coyle has announced the launch of a new subscription video teaching series entitled Fiat LVX. For $20 dollars per month subscribers will have access to two professionally produced instructional and informational videos featuring T. Thorn Coyle each month. "The first installment will examine a different spiritual idea as it directly relates to our lives; the second … [Read more...]

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