http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine Linking You to Current Pagan News and Opinion Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:17:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 patheos/ThroughTheGrapevinehttp://feedburner.google.com http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/christian-outrage-shuts-down-idolatry-art-exhibit/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/christian-outrage-shuts-down-idolatry-art-exhibit/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:17:44 +0000 Star Foster http://www.patheos.com/community/throughthegrapevine/?p=314 ART THREAT: “Cruz said his installation, named Poleteismo or Polytheism, was conceived as a commentary on how idolatry has evolved throughout history. The targeted work symbolized the worship of men in a patriarchal society.”

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/christian-outrage-shuts-down-idolatry-art-exhibit/feed/ 0 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/is-saudia-arabia-embracing-polytheistic-past/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/is-saudia-arabia-embracing-polytheistic-past/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:15:04 +0000 Star Foster http://www.patheos.com/community/throughthegrapevine/?p=312 THE GUARDIAN: “For years, the country has been erasing any evidence of its polytheistic, desert-dwelling past. But now, slowly, the tide may be starting to turn”

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/is-saudia-arabia-embracing-polytheistic-past/feed/ 0 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/anonymous-person-spreading-new-forest-child-abuse-claims/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/anonymous-person-spreading-new-forest-child-abuse-claims/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:08:59 +0000 Star Foster http://www.patheos.com/community/throughthegrapevine/?p=309 CARING FOR OUR CHILDREN: “In a message which began appearing on July 25 on several internet forums and message boards, including shameonyou.org, “Alice” made serious allegations of ritual child abuse against a New Forest Coven.”

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/anonymous-person-spreading-new-forest-child-abuse-claims/feed/ 0 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/wiccan-leads-panel-on-supernatural-in-bengali-cinema/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/wiccan-leads-panel-on-supernatural-in-bengali-cinema/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:01:29 +0000 Star Foster http://www.patheos.com/community/throughthegrapevine/?p=306 THE TIMES OF INDIA: “Chandreyee Ghosh had played a student of Wicca in ” Parapaar”, a show that used to be aired on a private Bengali channel, Anjan Dutt’s telefilm “Mannequin”, based on one of Ipsita’s stories is almost ready to be aired while Rituparno Ghosh’s involvement with the Wicca had started as early as when he was just 12 years old. The discussion was moderated by Ipsita and was directed towards how people have started opening up to the supernatural and the inexplicable.”

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/wiccan-leads-panel-on-supernatural-in-bengali-cinema/feed/ 0 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/real-witches-critique-true-blood/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/real-witches-critique-true-blood/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:56:09 +0000 Star Foster http://www.patheos.com/community/throughthegrapevine/?p=304 REUTERS: “Marnie does communicate with the dead but she comes into witchcraft lacking groundedness,” said Penczak, author of “The Inner Temple of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation and Psychic Development. “A witch who gets good training usually learns to balance that with discipline, strength and focus. I would have liked to see a witch who was more competent and had a clearer sense of will and purpose.”

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]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/religious-right-calls-nar-pagan/feed/ 0 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/woman-from-charlie-sheen-ritual-in-street-brawl/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/woman-from-charlie-sheen-ritual-in-street-brawl/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:31:24 +0000 Star Foster http://www.patheos.com/community/throughthegrapevine/?p=296 SALEM PATCH: Laurie Stathopoulos, of Crow Haven Corner and the Charlie Sheen ritual, involved in street brawl.

]]> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/08/woman-from-charlie-sheen-ritual-in-street-brawl/feed/ 0 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/07/celebrating-lammas-some-history-of-the-holiday/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/throughthegrapevine/2011/07/celebrating-lammas-some-history-of-the-holiday/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:05:47 +0000 Star Foster http://www.patheos.com/community/throughthegrapevine/?p=294 SCHOOL OF THE SEASONS: “Now some people say that William the Red was a Lammas sacrifice, that having made a wasteland of his kingdom, he was killed by the people (or the Gods) as a sacrifice to bring new life to the land. And some people say his brother Henry has him assassinated. And some people say that both versions are true.”

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