Setting aside the commercial endorsements (it's the ad—you can see it here—that gets the award, not the product), this year's Golden Broomstick Award for Best Pagan Commercial goes to...
Scene: Ancient Rome. Outside the Colosseum, two swordswomen are sparring.
(Lively swordplay.)
Fighter 1: (puts up sword and grimaces)
Fighter 2: Had enough?
Fighter 1: (rubbing elbow) No, arthritis.
Fighter 2: (slides product down sword blade toward Fighter 1 and flips it to her) Here...new (product name).
Fighter 1: (takes product, applies to elbow) Full prescription strength...reduces inflammation...thank the gods!
The new Ghostbusters film is released. The world goes crazy for Pokémon. And writer LeSean Thomas talks about the importance of POC characters in fiction. It's Airy Monday, our weekly segment on magic and religion in popular culture! All this and more for the Pagan News Beagle!
We take a look at novels that helped popularize Paganism. The history of Abrahamic religions' flirtation with magic is examined. And one writer explains what the popular series The Legend of Korra taught her about self-worth. It's Airy Monday, our weekly segment of magic and religion in pop culture! All this and more for the Pagan News Beagle!
Erin Lale
Fellow faculty at Harvard Divinity School posted an open letter to Wolpe in response to his article. It's available on this page, below the call for p...
Erin Lale
Here's another response. The Wild Hunt has a roundup of numerous responses on its site, but it carried this one as a separate article. It is an accoun...
Erin Lale
Here's another response. This one is by a scholar of paganism. It's unfortunately a Facebook post so this link goes to Facebook. She posted the text o...
Erin Lale
Here's another link to a pagan response to the Atlantic article. I would have included this one in my story too if I had seen it before I published it...
Janet Boyer
I love the idea of green burials! I first heard of Recompose right before it launched. I wish there were more here on the East Coast; that's how I'd l...