Jemma Hawkins, 29, of the UK has been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. As part of the UK health system she has been receiving regular, sometimes daily visits from mental health care visitors to help her with her condition.
However, on one of the visits the health care visitor told her that she should remove her pagan religious items from plain view and put them away in the bedroom so as not to affect Jemma’s 10 year old son.
Our publication is a lifestyle magazine so while we may publish spells, rituals, and some magick how-to; we aim to focus on ways that pagans, wiccans, earth-based-spiritualists, and those of like mind can incorporate their values and beliefs into their everyday living.
We see pagan tradition through the prism of generations of modern religious thought. Through history and prehistory, the representations of the ancient gods and traditions followed by pagans have been marred by propaganda from other religious groups eager to rein in those they defined as `wild barbarians`.
‘Old Guard Paganism’. The phrase started out as a joke, but then caught on. This tells us something. It tells us there is a NEED for such a term. It also implies its own antithesis, ‘New Guard Paganism’. And it indicates that there is some difference between the two — a ‘difference that makes a difference’ — and thus requires differentiating labels.
Arizona joins Oklahoma in trying to pass a “student religious expression” law similar to the one recently passed by Texas. “On Wednesday, the Arizona House Education Committee narrowly approved, and sent on to the full House of Representatives, HB 2713, a bill that would prohibit public schools from discriminating against students on the basis of [...]
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6 September 2010, 5:08 pm: I favorited a YouTube video -- Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles) http://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I?a
