News & Submissions 1/25/2010

January 25th, 2010 by sivodd

Pagan Events and Festivals
Pagan events you’ll want to save the date for are the festivals that are coming up. Read full story from examiner.com

Paganist protests as health visitor tells her to move items
A follower of paganism claims a health visitor told her she should put her religious items away because of the effect they could be having on her son. Read full story from portsmouth.co.uk

Religious Imperialism
We’re all aware of the stupid things about Haiti that Pat Robertson said recently, but just to recap:

And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, “We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.”

This is bad theology and bad history combined. To state that suffering is caused by sin ignores the message of Job as well as the Suffering Servant motif of Isaiah. But the notion that Haitian revolutionaries entered into a pact with the devil is apparently an old one. It may be worth looking at the history in order to get some idea of what’s going on. Read full story from unreasonablefaith.com

Mary Daly wouldn’t have wanted to rest in peace
It was tough work being radical feminist trailblazer Mary Daly, but somebody had to do it. We need rare individuals like her, who provide the kind of incisive criticism that forces us to think outside the lines, to raise the questions that propel imagination in new, unsettling, revolutionary directions, and shake up our customary ways of thinking and of being. In the ancient world, these socially and religiously disruptive figures were called prophets. They were inspired seers, visionaries. In contemporary theological circles, the term “prophetic” continues to refer to those progressive thinkers whose seemingly crazy utterances serve to bring us to our collective senses. Mary Daly’s was just such a voice. Read full story from usatoday.com

Finding faith: Pagans explore spirituality
In the broadest sense of the term, a pagan is anyone who worships in a religion other than Christianity, Judaism or Islam. This includes a variety of spiritual paths such as Wicca, Druidism, Neo-paganism and Norse religions. Most pagan faiths are based on beliefs, deities and symbols taken from ancient religions and most emphasize harmony with the Earth and its seasonal cycles. Read full story from carrollcountytimes.com

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