HOW IS it that an 8th century saint got her name connected to a pagan celebration? Dr. Judd Burton joins us to discuss Saint Walpurga, Walpurgisnacht, the history of witchcraft and its connections to ancient Mesopotamia.

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POST-CHRISTIAN America will not be a Star Trek future of science and reason. Carl Teichrib, author of Game of Gods, joins us to explain why paganism is going mainstream.

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VENERATION OF the dead is a practice that links the modern world to the earliest days of recorded human history. Sharon K. Gilbert joins Derek to discuss their first book together, Veneration, and how she uses the research behind this book for her top-rated historical fiction series, The Redwing Saga.

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WITCHCRAFT HAS been rebranded in recent decades. Where once it was considered an evil practice inspired by the devil, now it’s harmless fun for kids at Halloween or a form of feminist spiritualism that empowers women.

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Carl Teichrib, author of Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-enchantment, shares observations about a recent conference of pagans in the upper Midwest.Continue Reading

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