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Andrew M. Greeley’s “God in Popular Culture” It might be tempting to dismiss Andrew Greeley’s recent book, ‘God in Popular Culture’, as trivial. It would be a bad mistake. Yet I can see at least three reasons for making it. First, by now Greeley is known to most people as…

A Pagan’s Personal Reply to the New Atheists “Have you made your peace with God?”“I wasn’t aware that we had quarreled.”—Henry David Thoreau, on his deathbed In this essay, I plan to analyze the following TWO questions: “Do you believe in God?” and “Do you worship Nature?” Although in my…

(The Great Wicca vs. Witchcraft Debate) “A difference that makes no difference is not a difference.” —Ambassador Spock It took more than twenty years before I first ran across the notion that Witchcraft and Wicca were not the same thing. I don’t remember where I first read it, but I…