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25 Dec 2011, 6:10 am
If Mary conceived on March 25, then the first day of her last period — I've never before in my life thought about Mary's periods! [read post]
23 Apr 2011, 5:09 am
Perhaps it is me, but it seems Christian holidays are becoming secular events while holidays (or holy days) in other religions are not.Easter is historically a pagan event. [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 7:09 am
So wrote Jonathan Blanchard, president of Knox College, in 1858, in a letter to his wife Mary, as noted by Paddy O in the comments. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 11:47 am by David Walpuck
Music, dancing and the celebration of holidays were forbidden because the belief was this activity was Pagan. [read post]
9 Apr 2023, 1:12 am by Frank Cranmer
Some have suggested links to paganism, but whilst the designation “green man” is relatively recent, its depiction in churches is not uncommon: in St Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol, there are at least thirty-six located in foliate masks around doors, roof bosses and elsewhere. [read post]
25 Dec 2014, 6:29 am
The story of the Christmas wreath is a winding path of traditions including many pagan practices such as a wreath and yule log. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 7:55 pm by Jack Bogdanski
"Mad Dog"), Thunderbird, and Ripple (including a "pagan pink" flavor). [read post]
3 Oct 2012, 12:13 pm by Jeff Gamso
  Bernice is aided in her quest to get the Connecticut legislature to act by the ACLU, NRA, Communist Party, Taliban Connecticut Wiccan & Pagan Network.Ann Marie Somma of Religion News Network, in the Washington Post.Now members of the Connecticut Wiccan & Pagan Network are pushing Gov. [read post]
22 May 2009, 3:09 pm
This week, we’ve had a couple of new entrants and Mary Wollstonecraft’s pioneering work on the Rights of Women was accurately spotted, but the remaining items in the global Scavenger Hunt are still stumping Slaw readers. [read post]
3 Dec 2012, 8:26 am
He summarizes his argument first by dramatizing how different Christianity was from everything pagan that had preceded it:Right in the middle of all these things [of the pagan, pre-Christian world] stands up an enormous exception. [read post]
3 Dec 2012, 8:26 am
He summarizes his argument first by dramatizing how different Christianity was from everything pagan that had preceded it:Right in the middle of all these things [of the pagan, pre-Christian world] stands up an enormous exception. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 9:43 pm
But Mary herself proved elusive.In the Prado I at last glimpsed the Virgin. [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 8:19 am by Joanna Grisinger
I frequently changed up these books, both to highlight different themes and to keep things fresh for me, but I did repeatedly rely on John Ruston Pagan’s Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (Oxford University Press, 2002)and Mary Dudziak’s Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2001). [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 5:44 am by Fiona de Londras
Deirdre Duffy pays tribute to Sister Mary Auxilius (née Sarah Clarke) In the immediate aftermath of her death in 2002 the catchphrase most associated with Sarah Clarke (or Sister Mary Auxilius) was “unsung hero”. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 1:35 am
He had wed locked all of them in marriage (including Mary the Copt). [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 10:39 am
“Baby’s First Christmas” by Connie Francis“Blue Christmas” by Glen Campbell“Colorado Christmas” by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band“The Christians and the Pagans” by Dar Williams“Birthday Card at Christmas” by Jethro Tull“One Little Christmas Tree” by Stevie Wonder“Father Christmas” by The Kinks“Bells Are Ringing” by Mary Chapin Carpenter“Jingle Bells” by James… [read post]
23 Dec 2012, 12:10 pm
Martin and others who have examined the earliest Christian sources.)We can begin with the Gospel of Luke, chapter 2, verses 1-7:2:1 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire for taxes. 2:2 This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 2:3 Everyone went to his own town to be registered. 2:4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the… [read post]