Paganism casts spell over followers, an article published today as a special to the L.A. Times in fact is not that bad of an article in regard to showing Paganism.

The title is misleading as what the report focuses on is Wicca and not general Paganism. The sub-title is also misleading as it states: Wiccans and others mystical sects band together for political clout or just healing fairs, and plans are already being made for their annual gathering in October. Read full article here.

The L.A. Times states: This is the first in a series of occasional articles exploring alternative cultural life around Southern California.

Hopefully in the future though, they will look a little more closely at the construction of the article and the use of sweeping generalizations. Either way, it should be interesting to see how this new feature for the L.A. Times works out.

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Pagan life is covered in many different mediums now that we are becoming more accepted in the mainstream of American culture. Because we are growing in numbers from various traditions, the demand for entertaining and educational magazines has grown with the surge.

Sure, we do get a lot of our information online but there is still the appeal of having a seat and reading through a fresh print publication. With that in mind, the following is a listing of the current printed Pagan magazines on the market in America today. Follow the links for individual subscription information.* All links are for actual, reputable pagan print publications and does not include publications that are discontinued or that have a release date of later than this blog post.

SageWoman: Celebrating the Goddess in Everywoman

PanGia: A Pagan Journal for Thinking People

NewWitch: Cutting Edge Paganism

Circle Magazine

The Beltane Papers

Modern Witch Magazine

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The Southwestern Community College in Iowa fired an educator for not promoting Christianity.

Steve Bitterman, a now ex-professor at SCC, was teaching a Western Civilization class. Every other cultural religion that they had covered the students seemed to be fine with until they reached covering Christianity in the same way that all the other religions were looked at. When Bitterman stated that the Garden of Eden story is not historically true, one of his students argued with him and then walked out of the classroom.

“A few of the students thought I was knocking their religion by not promoting it,” he said. “They were upset that I didn’t say that the Bible was literally true.” Bitterman said that he treats the Bible as a historically significant, important work, but that he does not accord it status beyond that. “That really seemed to come as a shock to some of them,” he said. You can read the full story over at Inside Higher Ed.
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Carson City has a new Pagan e-group now. This is great news, since the last local e-group has had a pending status through yahoo going back through Yule of last year.

If you are a Carson local or in the greater Reno/Carson City/Tahoe follow this link to sign up with the e-group: CarsonPagan-Wiccan

The group was started by Erin Renee, Carson City’s local Pagan Medium and Jessa who is Carson City’s local Pagan Tribal Fusion Belly Dancer and owner of Dark Moon Dance.

Erin and Jessa have also began a web show called The Real Witches that you can watch over on youtube here: The Real Witches

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