Tag: Pagan

Since the dawn of language, people have come up with a lot of different ways to talk about weather and the passage of time. A few of them are rational. Everything in the Chinese calendar is numbered, from yi yue (January, “one month”) to shi-er yue (“twelve mont...

Since the dawn of language, people have come up with a lot of different ways to talk about weather and the passage of time. A few of them are rational. Everything in the Chinese calendar is numbered, from yi yue (January, “one month”) to shi-er yue (“twelve mont...

It’s still surprising to me I started doing reiki and attending pagan festivals. I really didn’t know what reiki was until I sat down in level one class. I knew it was something vaguely related to energy and healing and that it was practiced by people who smell like patchouli and talk a ...

Many modern Christians resemble the pagans of ancient Rome. Like the pagans, they try to appease, ingratiate, or manipulate their God. That’s one of the arguments in seminary professor Nijay Gupta’s new book, “Strange Religion.” As I listened to him discuss the book o...

Around 180 A.D., the pagan writer Celsus notes they “alter the original text of the Gospel three or four or many times, and modify it in order to be able to reject criticisms.” Around 400 A.D., the Christian translator Jerome, likewise, complains that Christian cop...