(RNS) — The Great Rite, a Wiccan ritual celebrating the creative union of the masculine and feminine, commonly occurs after a priest and a priestess call in the God and the Goddess, the Earth-based ...

Every day, theater senior Megan Brice-Heames worships gods and goddesses. She is not, however, worshiping the Christian God, Islam's Allah or the Buddha, but rather the pantheon of her own faith: ...

She was born into a family with deep Catholic beliefs, with aunts and an uncle devoting their lives to serving the church. By age 13, she broke the news to her family: Rebekah Benner found Wicca and ...

I have recently noticed an increase in articles about and by those pertaining to the Wiccan order. As I have read these articles, I have found that information is lacking in some areas, as well as a ...

When local Wiccans gather this Halloween, they won’t be casting spells to lift the veil between worlds. Instead, they’ll be celebrating Samhain, a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season ...

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Of all the places to discover modern witchcraft, for 51-year-old Lancaster resident Cyndi Simpson, the path to spiritual conversion came in one of the most unlikely of places: the Bible Belt of west ...

Christmas and Hanukkah may be the most well-known end-of-year religious holidays, but each December, Wiccans celebrate winter solstice, which marks the shortest day of the year. In a “Faith-Based” ...