Sarah Palin and the war against the Queen of Heaven

Thomas Muthee, Mary Glazier, and the other prayer warriors of the New Apostolic Reformation who support Sarah Palin, state that they
intend to infiltrate and transform our society and government, and
want us and our Goddess eradicated. They want us and all we consider holy to be converted, and if not converted, destroyed.

Talk to Action's series of documentary videos and supporting articles in "Palin's Churches and the Third Wave" Series

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/5/114652/6239

Whether or not Sarah Palin wins this election, this movement that supports her will gain strength if we let it continue on this path.

Pagan Delegates at Democratic Convention

The two known Pagan delegates to the Democratic Convention wil be representing Maine.

From their convention blog, Blue Pagans at the DNC:

Rita Moran is Chairperson of the Kennebec County Democratic Committee, and is attending the Democratic National Convention as an official delegate for the state of Maine. Rita, who runs a bookstore in Maine, was outed and stalked last year by a local conservative Christian organization. Since then she has dedicated herself to being an open and positive Pagan presence within the Democratic Party.

Ed Lachowicz is Vice Chair of the Kennebec County Democratic Committee, and a Maine Democratic State Committeeman. In addition, he is a regular blogger with Turn Maine Blue, a progressive state-focused blog that has been granted press credentials at the Democratic National Convention.

While I've not met Ed, I've known Rita for many years. She's smart and savvy and passionate, and I have enormous respect for her. Blessings on Rita and Ed for their commitment to democracy.

Blue Pagans at the DNC

Witches in Opera

Operacadabra!

From Purcell to Wagner to Sondheim, opera-makers have never been able to resist a witch. Philip Hensher looks at the eternal appeal of the black-hatted hag

July 11, 2008 The Guardian

Article

Societas Magica

The Societas Magica is an organization dedicated to furthering communication and exchange among scholars interested in the study of magic, both in the positive contexts of its expression as an area of necessary knowledge or religious practice (as in early modern occultism and contemporary paganism), and in its negative contexts as the substance of an accusation or condemnation (as in sorcery trials, and many philosophical and theological accounts, both early and late). The interests of our membership include, but are not limited to, the history and sociology of magic; theological, and intellectual apprehensions of magic; practices and theories of magic; and objects, artifacts and texts either qualified as magical by their creators, or forming the substance of an accusation of magic by others.

The Society will be holding its first full conference on MAGIC: FRONTIERS AND BOUNDARIES June 11-15 at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Keynote Speakers will be Marvin Meyer, Richard Kieckhefer, and T.M. Luhrman.

Online PDFs of the Societas Magica newsletter dating back to 1996 are linked on their website.

Link

Midnight Sun Witchcraft Conference 2007

The three day Heksekonferansen was held last week in Varda, Norway.
Ronald Hutton was one of the keynote speakers, lecturing on "The Status of Witchcraft in the Modern Age." Some of the other lectures were on
"The Northern Encounter of Shamanhood and Christianity," "Rituals and Male Witches in Icelandic Witchcraft," " The Changing Understanding of the Witch in Russia at the time of Peter the Great," and " Witch-trials in Finnmark and Scotland – Torture and confession."

http://www.heksekonferansen.no/prog.htm