The Easter Bunny is a much celebrated character in American Easter celebrations. On Easter Sunday, children look for hidden special treats, often chocolate Easter eggs, that the Easter Bunny might ...

Rome didn’t become Christian overnight, and pagan life didn’t instantly disappear. For centuries the empire was religiously tolerant, with countless cults and temples operating openly. Even after ...

Fearing discrimination, many pagans prefer to keep their faith private, according to Darrell Moore, high priest of Horn and Cauldron, Church of the Earth, a small Wiccan church on a 13-acre farm in ...

Archaeologists have discovered more than $318,000 worth of gold and silver coins believed to have been used by pagans as “devil’s money” at a rare Medieval worship site in the Netherlands. A dig near ...

The difference between a biblical and a pagan understanding of worship lies in the difference between a verb and a noun. What is worship? Our English word comes from the Anglo-Saxon weorthscipe, which ...

A guest lecture by Jesse Mirotznik. Ancient Jewish portrayals of how non-Israelite worship other gods and their icons is consistently depicted as sincere. At some point around the end of the 3rd ...

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