I spent Independence Day enjoying my country’s natural beauty at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. Later in the evening I enjoyed watching the firework display coming from the county fairgrounds. It was fun being in Montana for the Fourth as they allow much more kinds of firecrackers than Minnesota does, and you can [...]
Archive for the ‘Holidays’ Category
Independence from Politics
Posted in Civil Liberties, Holidays, Politics/Culture on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Flag Day and Patriotism
Posted in Holidays, Politics/Culture on June 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today is Flag Day here in the United States. So, what does that have to do with Paganism? Well, I am part of a small movement called Religio Americana or American Paganism which grew out of a discussion on the Beliefnet Hellenismos & Religio Romana forum sometime around 2002. Erik Dutton and some others were [...]
The Culture of Halloween
Posted in Celtic/Druid, Christianity, Holidays, Popular Culture, Religious Right, tagged American culture, children, consumerism, Halloween, Samhain, sexuality on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the past 20 years so there have some changes in the culture of Halloween in the United States. Likewise celebration of the holiday has spread to parts of the world where it was previously unknown. I am interested in exploring this and wondering how this may affect its older cousin, Samhain. I do observe [...]
