“As you chant, I want you to put your hands on your womb. This is the center of your power!” It was dusk, and I was standing in a circle of two hundred women, from 6 to 60-something, in a forest ...

Moira Payne has identified as a witch for a decade now. Born to a Jewish father and a Catholic-raised mother, the Ann Arbor 48-year-old decided that she wanted to be a witch after she began attending ...

A druidic “women’s eucharist” and a “divorce rite,” both posted on the Episcopal Church’s official Web site, have outraged Episcopal conservatives. The “eucharist,” subtitled “A Celebration of the ...

Should religious folks celebrate Halloween? In answering this question I have a duty to my readers and a duty to my grandchildren, Zeke and Daisy. Spoiler alert: Zeke and Daisy are going to win. First ...

Lu Vail, now a senior honors student in family social science, remembers, as a young girl, mysterious jars filled with “barky and pickled stuff” sitting on top of a shelf in her grandmother’s pantry.

Midsommar, or Midsummer, is the opening of the traditional summer holiday season, during which Swedes abandon the cities for five weeks in nature, enabled by 25 days of legally mandated paid leave.

Today, we know Valentine’s Day for sweetness and chocolate and doilies and grand romantic gestures. But a millennium before our time, the holiday that would become Valentine’s Day saw ancient Romans ...

A history of herbs used by the Celts and other pre-Christian tribal societies and their continued ritual use through the centuries, written by Mary Forsell and originally published in the October, ...

(The Conversation) — Native Americans are struggling to find sage for their spiritual practices as the plant is being overharvested for sale to the wider public. (The Conversation) — White sage, which ...

On the cusp between spring and summer, Beltane is a fire festival that celebrates the fertility of the coming year. Find this year's date in the multifaith calendar Beltane is a Celtic word which ...