"These traditions slow me down, force me to recognize the passage of time and the way in which the changing of seasons has ...

Students at University of Missouri don't need to cram for exams that fall on Wiccan and Pagan holidays, now that the school has put them on par with Christmas, Thanksgiving and Hanukah. The university ...

If you’ve ever decorated a Christmas tree and thought, “This feels a little too magical to be strictly Christian,” ...

CHARLESTON, W. Va. – A new policy at Marshall University will allow pagan students to miss classes to observe religious holidays or festivals. While many colleges have policies to protect students of ...

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The celebration of Christmas on Dec. 25 is more likely rooted in a Jewish tradition that puts important events at the same time each year than linked to a pagan winter ...

Many of us learned that Christians set the date of Christmas to co-opt pagan holidays. Both the Roman Saturnalia festival and Sol Invictus, the Feast of the Unconquered Son, fell around Dec. 25.

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — A New Jersey elementary school canceled and reinstated its Halloween celebration this week in a debate that reflects societal ambivalence about the holiday’s religious origins. On ...