Pagan Community Notes: Week of Yule 2025
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, even as the holiday season unfolds, we pause to mark the passing of Priestess Rae Beth, who has crossed the veil. We take a…
Pentagon Targets ‘New Age’ Spirituality in Sweeping Chaplain Corps Changes
Calling the Army’s Spiritual Fitness Guide “new age” and unserious, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered its immediate removal, raising concerns about how future chaplain reforms could affect religious pluralism within…
DOJ Memo Confirms FBI Will Compile List of Domestic “Extremist” Groups Under New Security Directive
A leaked and now-confirmed DOJ memo outlines how the FBI will implement a Trump national-security directive, broadening domestic extremism definitions and prompting concern among civil-liberties advocates, journalists, and minority religious…
Beyond Monuments: UNESCO Honors Living Traditions and Community
Beyond ancient sites and monuments, UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list uplifts living traditions rooted in ritual, music, food, and craft. From Ifá to Cuban Son, these recognitions honor community, continuity,…
Classics of Pagan Cinema: Bell, Book, and Candle
“The 50’s, for all their historical patina, were an age of post-war innovation: the mixer, the slow cooker, the top load dishwasher,” writes Lauren Parker in her review of this…
New York’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit returns looted Roman artifacts to Turkey
The New York County District Attorney repatriated several artifacts to Turkey this week, including a marble head of the Athenian orator Demosthenes and a larger than life bronze statue of…
Review: “Wake Up Dead Man” is Rian Johnson’s caper of redemption and religious leadership
Luke Babb reviews the new Benoit Blanc film and discovers that, in the midst of a murder mystery steeped in Catholic imagery, there is a lot to consider about the…
Pagan Community Notes – Welcome Jólasveinar! er… December 11, 2025
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, the Yule Lads are upon us! But there’s more: Britain continues to see growth in its Pagan population, Vogue explores why Gen Z is…
Earliest Astronomical Architecture in the Americas Uncovered: A Place Where Warriors Watched the Sun
ew excavations at Chankillo uncovered an early astronomical structure and a ritual vessel of warrior-astronomers, revealing that ancient Andean elites linked cosmology, political authority, and martial power long before the…
A Yuletide Act of Civil Disobedience in the American South
Today’s story is an update on last week’s Rutherfordton events where officials denied a permit for a small Pagan-led vigil, citing undocumented restrictions and a coercive “Christian parade” alternative, Continue…