As Easter approached I began to see a number of Ishtar equals Easter memes roll across my Facebook feed, as friends or acquaintances of mine with pagan leanings decided to spill the hidden truth on ...

About this time of year one hears a lot of commentary about the festival of Easter, wherein it is asserted to be a Christian reframing of some older pagan festival. This is nonsense, but the belief is ...

The goddess Ostara -- sometimes called Eostre -- is the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, resurrection, rebirth and the maiden aspect of the Three-Fold Goddess (maiden, mother and crone), explains the ...

Most Christians consider Easter to be a sacred and joyous celebration of Christ's Resurrection. But what about the claim that Easter and its accompanying traditions originated from a pagan spring ...

Jesus Christ’s resurrection isn’t just central to the Christian liturgical calendar. “It’s the central mystery of our faith,” Bob Feeny, pastor at Westminster United Church, said. “That Jesus Christ ...

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