Is there a place for generative AI in creating spells and rituals?
AI doesn’t have a personal, intimate relationship to the elements around it/us. It doesn’t have a connection to the Divine. Continue reading Is there a place for generative AI in…
Pagan Community Notes: Week of January 16, 2025
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: a new conference is coming to Portland, Oregon; Imbolc preparations at Circle Sanctuary; ATC’s Dusty Dionne becomes chairman of the local parks board; concerns…
Research appears to confirm Roman astonishment of Empowered Celtic women
New DNA research reveals that Iron Age Britain may have had a matrilocal society, where land passed through female lines and husbands joined wives’ communities. the findings support historical accounts…
Lawmaker seeks to exonerate the victims of the less known Maryland Witch Trials
Like similar efforts in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Scotland, a legislator in Maryland is introducing a bill to exonerate the victims of the state’s lesser-known witchcraft trials. Continue reading Lawmaker seeks…
Editorial: Gaimans’ abuse Survivors Demand we see the Truth
As one of Pagans’ most beloved authors faces accusations of sexual abuse, the focus must remain on the real people harmed. We must prioritize the humanity of survivors above our…
Editorial: Attacks on pornography are attacks on free speech – and Paganism
TWH’s editor-in-chief, Manny Tejeda y Moreno, examines a set of new laws in states like Florida and Texas that purport to protect children from the dangers of pornography, but in…
Christmastide
“What if,” I say idly, “I started celebrating Christmas again, but in an Arthurian sort of way?” “Camelot is the Christian wart on the face of pagan England,” my husband…
Pagan Community Notes: Week of January 9, 2025
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, the Correllian Church in Danville, Illinois begins a major project, the Bui sisters bring Slavic stories to life, the Wolf Moon is coming, and…
The Offer Stone
This is the first time I cross path with what Finns call a hiidenkivi (“cult stone”) and the Swedes a jättekast (“giant’s throw”), and for a little while longer my…
LA Fires claim Theosophical Society building and archives
Multiple reports say that the building housing the Theosophical Society of America in Los Angeles has been destroyed along with the majority of its artifacts by the devastating fires Continue…