The Maypole Dance
For most holidays we write a whole new ritual and there’s no guarantee that any particular element will recur from year to year. I’ve been to Ostaras without eggs and…
Pickens, SC Pagan Market targeted again
Community Advisory: Stillwater Christian Fellowship has announced plans to return to The Market on the Mill, aiming to “bring the Gospel” to those they believe are “deceived and enslaved” by…
Pagan Community Notes: Week of May 8, 2025
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes ,Pagan organizations and members of the community begin reacting to the election of Pope Leo XIV, a highly important prehistoric mound was plundered in…
Analysis: Oak Flat and “Substantial Burden”
Our correspondent, Sean Little, who has been following the story for years, offers analysis and a final round-up of the Oak Flat case, examining the critical legal battles over sacred…
Trump Establishes Religious Liberty Commission, Questions Church-State Divide
President Trump created a Religious Liberty Commission, declaring, “Let’s forget about for one time.” Continue reading Trump Establishes Religious Liberty Commission, Questions Church-State Divide at The Wild Hunt.
Researchers Say Religion—Not Rodents—Helped Turn Wildcats into House Cats
New research reveals domestic cats were first tamed in ancient Egypt for religious rituals honoring the goddess Bastet, challenging earlier beliefs that domestication began for pest control in early farming…
Here we go again: David Brooks’s misuse of “paganism” as a cultural corruption
In an age where religious minorities — especially Pagans — already face real marginalization, suspicion, and in some cases, violence, Brooks’s carelessness, and by proxy, The New York Times’s carelessness…
Opinion: When the world is running down, you make the best of what’s still around
It is at moments like these that we need to remember the image of Temperance and what it stands for, internally and externally. Are we willing to look inside ourselves…
The Bear, the Great Mother, and the Weary Determination of My Heart
Hospitals are always places where life and death cross paths and even sometimes walk together. This is one reason hospitals send chills crawling up our spines and through our nervous…
Pagan Community Notes: Beltaine 2025
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Many blessings to your community at this Turn of the Wheel! We celebrate Beltaine in the Northern Hemisphere and Samhain in the Southern Hemisphere.…