When it comes to a lot of Christian holidays, it doesn’t take much digging to uncover pretty obvious remnants of the pagan festivals they replaced still lingering in the ways we celebrate today. The ...

As Christians conquered pagan lands, they regularly superimposed Christian symbols on pagan shrines. I thought of this when I read that the buildings of Chicago Theological Seminary have been sold to ...

How did decorated trees, cut-out cookies and stockings by the fireplace become Christmas symbols? Christmas symbols we all ...

There’s no Sunday school, and meetings are regularly held at Denny’s restaurants, but for members — and the federal government — Sacred Spiral is very much a church, albeit a Pagan church. High ...

With another Christmas season coming, we will likely hear some people again calling for us to put Christ back into Christmas. To put it another way, to get secular or even pagan accretions out of ...

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