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.

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 ...

Picking up her Catholic rosary, Meg Williams, a 24-year-old from Maine, begins her prayers like this: "Hail Persephone, full of strength and beauty. . . . Blessed are you and blessed is the cycle of ...

Many of the Easter traditions Christians celebrate today date back to the early days of Christianity. Karl Gehring/The Denver Post via Getty Images Easter brings together an unlikely cadre of ...

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 ...

In the October, 1993 issue of High Times, writer Paul DeRienzo, a committed atheist, went in search of his pagan roots and discovered an unexpected affinity for Goddess culture. Having survived the ...

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 ...

(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 ...

(UNDATED) Judy Harrow, a self-described witch, remembers dancing in the woods of New Jersey with a circle of young pagans back in 1979. That group still meets, and this year members with stiff joints ...