How fitting that daffodils bobbed up Monday and area magnolias unfurled like silent celebratory fireworks, the very day the government grudgingly added the Wiccan pentacle to the long list of emblems permitted on government-issued headstones of soldiers and in national cemeteries.
The Department of Veterans Affairs finalized a settlement and stipulation agreement to have the pentacle, a five-pointed star in a circle and the symbol of Wiccan and pagan religions, placed on tombstones or memorial markers at Arlington Cemetery and other recognized U.S. military burial grounds Monday. ...
MADISON, Wis. — The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on government-issued headstones of fallen soldiers,...
MADISON, Wis. -- On a hill, overlooking a 200-acre nature center in the Wisconsin woods, sit three unmarked graves for veterans who followed the Wiccan religion.
Thanks to lawsuit settlement announced Monday, they won't be unmarked for long.
In a settlement with Wiccans, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs agreed to add the religion's pentacle to the list of...
Being called a crone is not generally considered a compliment among older women, but in Wicca it is a term of reverence for the wisdom and power a woman has earned by the final stage of her life.
The stages in a woman’s life reflect the three faces of the goddess in Wicca: the maiden, the mother and the crone. The...
Picking up her Catholic rosary, Meg, a 24-year-old from Maine, begins her prayers like this:
"Hail Persephone, full of strength and beauty. ... Blessed are you and blessed is the cycle of your life. Holy Persephone, queen of life and death, pray for your children now, and in the hour of our...
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People accused of witchcraft in America aren't executed anymore (we are 300 years and a First Amendment away from Puritan Massachusetts). These days they just lose their jobs.
Don Larsen discovered this the hard way. A year ago, Larsen was a Pentecostal Christian minister serving as an Army...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- From jokingly advising Wiccan soldiers to keep their clothes on when celebrating the spring equinox to coaxing troops to talk about the trauma of surviving a roadside bomb, Canadian Forces chaplains are in Afghanistan for everyone.
Maj. Malcolm Berry smiles as he recalls being approached on...