Below are links to articles, websites, and news related to Religion.
September 2021
- Sing the sacred Algonquin water song
- National Religious Broadcasters spokesman Dan Darling fired after pro-vaccine statements on ‘Morning Joe’
- Hindu-Pagan alliances (old articles from 1991 that are still relevant)
More… - The Druid practice of “saining”
August 2021
- World Druidism (video)
- Early Irish and Indian parallels (paper)
- Honoring Macha at Lughnasad
- Canada’s residential schools for indigenous children
- When hate comes to town, Pagans stand up to protest
July 2021
- Witches and Druids at the Solstice (video)
- 215 unmarked graves of children found in former Catholic residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people
- 751 more unmarked graves found at a Catholic residential school
More… - In 2019 Canada had reported 2800 graves of children from Catholic residential schools
- New Yorker – The Women who want to be Priests
- Vatican tries to stop proposed Italian anti- homophobia law
- The many meanings of Summer Solstice
- Andean Summer Solstice celebrations and the concept of spacetime
- Druids in Brittany, circa 1951
- In Ireland, a priest denounces a Puca statue from the pulpit
- European court rules that Lithuania violated human rights by not recognizing Romuva, the indigenous Pagan religion
June 2021
- Catholic rector opens church so Muslims can safely observe Ramadan
- PEW study examines political beliefs of US Pagans
- The Maypole that infuriated the Puritans
- Queen Maeve and female autonomy in Ancient Ireland
- A new film about Paganism (trailer)
- Belenos, a God of Beltaine (May Day)
- Brighid – Goddess and Saint (video)
May 2021
- A conference on “moral panic” was held
- The Druids in history
- San rock art in South Africa reveals ancient religious beliefs
- Medieval Jews in England kept Kosher
- The hard science of reincarnation
- QAnon’ s strange confluence with New Age spirituality
- Maine may soon allow Viking style funerals
- Hymn to Isis (video)
April 2021
- Pagan practices during the pandemic
- Ex-baker at Panera sues – she was fired for being a Pagan
- Scottish survey confirms discrimination against Pagans
- Pagans react to the Atlanta shootings of mostly Asian women
- Meet Saint Gertrude – the patron saint of cats
- Prayer to Saint Gertrude
St. Gertrude of Nivelles, ask you I pray
Safeguard my kitties this and each day.
Defend them from those who might wish them harm.
Keep them at home safe from danger and storm.
Instill in me wisdom to care for them well.
Pray, fill me with strength never to yell.
And Gertrude, a last thing I beseech from thee,
Protect my sofa from claws and my carpets from pee.
Amen. - Fresco project highlights Biblical women
March 2021
- Faith leaders called to help protect sacred Indian land
- A white buffalo calf is born in Missouri
- Brazilian Indigenous leaders warn Evangelicals are undermining vaccination efforts
- The Brat Bride and working with Brighid
- Brighid of Faughart (video)
- Conversion in ancient Ireland (video)
February 2021
- Why the Druids lost (video)
- C.O.R.D. Druid journal
- Heathens react to the appropriation of their sacred symbols by the violent mob that attacked the Capitol
- The ongoing struggle to save Native American sacred spaces and cultural heritage
- Lassair (Flame) a saint/Goddess connected to Brighid
More… - Report from the 17th annual Pagan studies conference
- Ever wonder what happened to Saint Brighid when she was brought to America by Irish immigrants?
- Indigenous Mexican polytheists destroy the homes of Evangelical Christians
- Heathens, Norse Pagans decry the misuse of their symbols at the Capitol riot
Related: ADL explains the hate symbols and signs seen at the riot - Paganism is on the rise in the USA (but still only .04 % of Americans say they are Pagan according to Pew Research)
December 2020
- Pope Francis swipes at groups complaining about Covid restrictions; “Looking to the common good is much more than the sum of what is good for individuals. It means having a regard for all citizens and seeking to respond effectively to the needs of the least fortunate,” he wrote.
- How Dia de los Muertos is celebrated in the USA
- Mexico has asked the Vatican to apologize for its role in the Spanish conquest, seeks return of indigenous treasures
- The Satanic Temple Files Motion to Disqualify Amy Coney Barrett from Ruling on TST’s Abortion Case at the Supreme Court
- The feminine face of the Holy Spirit reclaimed
November 2020
- Pagans are now the largest non-Christian faith in Iceland
- Wiccans, Witches now outnumber Presbyterians in the US
- Pope Francis: Market Capitalism has failed in the pandemic and needs reform
- The Druid Network celebrated 10 years as a recognized British charity
- A&E Television’s; “The Unexplained” Secret Societies, The Druids and the Knights Templars original air date 4 March 1999
- Pagans and Christians in late Antique Ireland
- Was Jesus a magician?
- How the Early Catholic church Christianized Halloween
October 2020
- The religion of the ancient Iberian Celts
- Regional variations of worship among the Iberian Celts
- Celtic religion in the Iron Age
- Gaulish religion in the Iron Age
- The worship of the dead in Scandinavia
- Christian missionaries threaten the health, lives of Brazilian indigenous tribes
- A Pagan harvest ritual (video)
- Arəduuī Sūrā Anāhitā: An Indo-European River Goddess
“A widely recurring term connected with rivers in Indo-European is *dānū, “abundant, giving,” which survives most famously in the names of several European rivers, including the Danube, the Don (one in Russia and another in England), the Dnieper, the Dniester, and others. Iranian-dānu- “body of water” (cf. Ossetic don “water”; Don, Danube, etc. and the goddess Danu in the Vedas would all seem to be related.
The Indo-European root *dā- means “to flow, flowing,” and its suffixed derivative *dānu- means “river.” In Avestan, dānu- means “river, stream.” In modern Ossetic (the language of the Ossetians, descendants of the Scythians), don means “river, stream.” *Deh nu- “river goddess” is reconstructed from Sanskrit dānu, Irish dānu , Welsh Dôn, and Ossetic Donbettys. A shortened form of the name appears to have been *dā. Many reflexes of this term can be found in Indo-European myths as well, often in connection with a river goddess.”
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September 2020
- Who were the Druids? (video)
It is worth remembering that the ancient Druids were political advisors to the nobility. It is part of a Druid’s calling. Also, modern “Romantic Revival” Druids were very political and tended to be Socialists (because they actively cared about the welfare of the common people).
- The role of social justice in religions
- Gabhaim Molta Bríghde – Haunting Gaelic song by Aoife Ní Fhearraigh (praise to Saint Brigid of Kildare) (video)
- The town of Nemi, Italy, celebrates the Ides of Diana on her feast day, August 13
- Divine immanence and the sacred feminine
- In the midst of a global pandemic Christian parents call mask wearing “Satanic”
- A Druid ritual for Lughnasad (video)
August 2020
- Satanic Witchcraft was a hard sell at first, in the Middle Ages
- You can read more about it in this book
- Whites only “Pagan” group comes to Minnesota
- Hagia Sophia a mosque again, has Pagan connections
- An introduction to modern Druidism (written in 2014)
- Is the Sun conscious? (video)
July 2020
- Inside the Christian cult of Trump
- The value of religious diversity in the current times we are in
- Installation of the new Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (video)
June 2020
- Pagan religion to be included in Scottish census
- Pagans are now the largest non-Christian faith in Iceland
- Inside the Evangelical group working to reelect Trump
- Newly unsealed Vatican documents tell what Pope Pius XII knew about the Holocaust
May 2020
- Sundown prayers for the dead as Corona virus deaths surge
- Miss your Easter obligation for 7 years and you could turn into a werewolf
- Victory: evangelical missionaries barred from uncontacted tribes’ land from uncontacted trail land
- The Hopi Prophecies
- Secret societies – the first half is about the Masons. The second half is Druids (video)
They got a lot wrong. My birth date and I NEVER said I was doing “authentic Druid ritual” from the past. Also, they have reincarnation wrong. “According to your [the druids’] authority, the shadows do not strive for the silent abodes of the underworld and for the pale realm of the deep sovereign of the dead: The same spirit directs the limbs in a different region (orbe alio). If you sing an approved truth, death is the centre of a long life”. Marcus Annaeus Lucanus From Bellum Civile
- English OBOD Druidry (video)
- An inspirational video from Italy about the current pandemic
- Message from a Native American elder – This is a Time for Faith (video)
- Just some sisters singing “We will We Will Rock You” (video)
April 2020
- Finding the Cailleach
- Meet modern Druids as they explore the ancient Gods
- A Druid ritual for the Equinox in the time of global pandemic (video)
The Place of the Earth Goddess in ancient Anglo-Saxon religion (PDF)
The Condor and Eagle prophecy
- Spiritual care in a time of plague
- Druid vets can now be buried with the Awen symbol on their gravestone
- The mystery of Odin’s ravens
- Listen to Tina Turner chant a Sanskrit mantra for peace
- The real Saint Patrick
- British, Masonic style, Romantic Revival “Druidry”. (video)
March 2020
- How did belief evolve in humans?
- Neo-Pagans, Domination and “The Woke”
- Do not lose heart – we were made for these times
- The Church forests of Ethiopia
- Pope turns a Vatican palace into a homeless shelter (a step in the right direction)
- Was Jesus a “magician” (one of the Magi)?
- We need more Shamans to heal the Earth’s people (video)
- The Finno-Ugric Earth Mother Goddess
February 2020
- Efforts are underway in Ireland to make Imbolc a national holiday (PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION!) (You don’t have to live in Ireland)
- New religious legislation threatens rights of minority religions
- Brighid and bathtub beer
- What is Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism? A FAQ.
- Imbolc and Saint Brighid (video)
- Irish Goddess Brighid (video)
January 2020
- A holy well in Kerry
- A Mosque, Synagogue and a Christian church are being built together in Abu Dhabi
- White Evangelicals want Christian supremacy, not religious freedom, study finds
- Pope Francis Condemns Migrant Detention Camps in Christmas Day Address
- Two Witches and a Druid found guilty of Stonehenge trespass
- Statue of the Roman Goddess Ceres returns to MO capitol
- Seattle will open the first human composting site for dead bodies in 2021
- Santa Claus is real and maybe living in Kilkenny, Ireland
December 2019
Tribe of the Oak now has a Flame Tenders group in honor of the Goddess Brighid. “Garrán na Brighid – Cill na Teine” is the sacred gathering of Druids and aspiring Druids dedicated to the Goddess Brighid and the Celtic traditions as taught by the Tribe of the Oak.
“How does the Flame Tending work? It is the act of keeping a candle which is dedicated to Brighid alight on your altar, shrine or hearth in rotating vigils which last 24 hours, starting at sunset on the date listed for each vigil shift and completing the vigil at sunset the following evening. Your name will be added to the vigil roster when you join us and we will assign you to a regular shift.”
You need to be a member of Tribe of the Oak to participate
- Christian affiliation is on the decline, PEW study finds
- A day in the life of an ancient Druid (video)
- Bolivian president’s anti indigenous rejection of “Pachamama”, Bolivia’s traditional Andean Goddess
- Four ADF priests resign citing abuse, cronyism, sexism and racism
- Desmond Tutu calls for anti-apartheid style boycott of fossil fuel industry
- The meaning behind the six objects on the Dia de los Muertos altar
November 2019
- Bake a cake for the Priestesses of the Dead
- Cultural appropriation within Paganism, healing the legacy of shattered cultures
- The Daghda is not Zeus!
- Pachamama statues stolen and dumped into the Tiber by Catholic fanantics
- A new Vatican sculpture that honors refugees
More…
- The mysteries of Eleusis and the Rites of Demeter
- Plurality of belief in contemporary Druidism
- Could Neo-Paganism be the new religion of America?
- First traditional Viking wedding in 900 years
- Celtic religion, Druids and Deities
October 2019
- 22 Bible verses welcoming immigrants
- You got to believe in something (video)
- Irish Pagans supporting Standing Rock (video)
- Harry Potter books removed from a Catholic School’s library due to “spells”
- Oregon Construction Worker Fired For Refusing To Attend Mandatory Bible Study, files a lawsuit
September 2019
- Want to learn more about ancient Celtic religion? Study Druidism in depth with an international Order – Tribe of the Oak
- Church of England will divest from companies causing climate change
- Montreal churches ban Catholic priests from being alone with children
- The Christian destruction of the Classical world
- TN law restricts marriages performed by clergy ordained online
- Separating children from their families is wrong and still happening. Where are the right to lifers?
- Neo-Nazi groups in the UK are trying to “take back” ancient British sacred sites
- How Europe was overrun by Christians
- Ancient Celtic tribal religion (paper)
August 2019
- FL Court of Appeals rules on non-Christian invocations at government functions
- Satanic Temple’s seven tenants may be morally superior to the 10 commandments
- Federal court backs rights of Wiccans, Atheists in discrimination suit
- Covenant of the Goddess issues statement on family separation and detention camps
- Comhaltacht na nGaedheal: Cairdreabh nan Gàidheal, statement on refugees
- Clann of Brighid issues a statement on child detentions and concentration camps
- Heathen women issue statement on US concentration camps
- A Pagan perspective on the 4th of July
- How corporate America invented the “Christian religious right” to dismantle the New Deal