This column of notices is open to any announcement of interest to the pagan community -- for example, handfastings and Wiccanings. To submit an announcement, send it by mail or e-mail to the appropriate address listed on Page 2.
The Pagan Headstone campaign is asking pagans across the United States to write their congresspeople to pressure the Veterans Administration (VA) to let veterans put pentacles on their grave stones. Despite 32 different religious symbols available for headstones in veterans' cemeteries, including symbols for the Aaronic Order, Konko-Kyo, Tenrikyo, Seicho-no-ie, the Church of World Messianity, the Moravian Church and Enkankar, the pentacle is not available. Not only will the VA not provide a free headstone with a pentacle, but a family is not allowed to purchase its own headstone with a pentacle and place it in a VA cemetery.
To join this campaign and for suggested letter text, see http://mysite.freeserve.com/headstonecampaign/index.html.
The Samhain 2002 article "Look Back in Controversy: A Samhain Interview with Aidan Kelly," by Lisa Lawrence (under her former name Lisa Harris) erroneously stated that Gardnerian priest Donald Frew "authored a rather elaborate Web page reviewing and discrediting the scholarship used in Crafting the Art of Magic," a book by controversial Craft author and Tacoma resident Aidan Kelly.
In fact, the Web site in question, http://www.wildideas.net/temple/library/frew.html, was created by a person other than Frew. However, the text on the site is from Frew's writing, and the site states that Frew gave permission that the text be posted there.
The error was not Lawrence's but a product of overzealous editing.
Widdershins regrets the error.
Widdershins has been receiving some interesting -- even controversial -- letters to the editor lately, but with printing costs on the rise, we haven't been able to put these letters in the printed version of the paper.
To make sure you know what's going on, we've decided to post these letters online. Take a look at http://www.widdershins.org/vol9iss7/letters.html and see what people have to say!
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