Christmas trees are widely associated with the Christian holiday, but their origins are far from the Christ-worshipping standards they represent today. Evergreens, plants that stay green year-round, ...

Though December 25 is the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the date itself and several of the customs we've come to associate with Christmas actually evolved from pagan traditions ...

The ancient precursor to Halloween, Samhain commemorates the end of the harvest and the onset of the "dark half" of the year. Donna Grace/NYPOST As autumn proves and Robert Frost reminds us, “Nothing ...

BELLEVILLE, MI - It's perhaps Michigan's largest Pagan and holistic event of the year. We checked out the Michigan Pagan Festival, which took place all weekend at the Wayne County Fairgrounds. The ...

The Southern Illinois Pagan Alliance celebrates the high point of the pagan year with its 2024 Samhain (“sou as in ‘ow’-win”) ritual, Saturday, Oct. 25 at the Gaia ...

How and why were pagan temples converted into Christian churches in the later Roman empire? New research focused on the city of Rome suggests a more peaceful transition from paganism to Christianity, ...